JourneyMan

I watched the pilot of JourneyMan on TiVo last night. I liked it a lot.
Time travel stories have always messed with my mind. Star Trek was the first exposure I had to the whole time-travel-and-all-its-accompanying-conundrums idea, and despite go-rounds with the likes of Back to the Future and Outlander, I’ve still yet to [...]

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Did You Hear That?

…that was me, sighing with relief.
Yesterday’s first session of Yoga National Guard went really well. I’m NOT the least green person in the place – I’m not even the person with the least experience (as a matter of fact, I believe it’s true that, of all the participants who were there last night, I [...]

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Yoga National Guard

(Two posts today…)
I signed up for a 200 hour yoga trainer certification course.
I really enjoy practicing yoga, and I also very much enjoy teaching yoga classes. My training to this point, though, has been what I consider to be woefully inadequate: I received a one day training at the health club seven years ago [...]

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Musical Mini-Chilis

We spent part of Wednesday afternoon getting Beanie hooked up with violin lessons!
Local University offers a music education degree program and, as part of their studies, students in the major offer instrument lessons to youngsters from the community. Both Beanie and Punkin’ Pie came home with fliers advertising the lessons, and Beanie got really [...]

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Aspiring to Be Like Gerry…

Seriously? This may well be one of the best pictures I have ever taken:

I stand in awe of the absolutely gorgeous photographs that Gerry of TwoBlueDay seems to effortlessly produce. His landscapes are stunning, his flower pictures are breathtaking, and he’s got a gorgeous knack for finding beautiful compositions in things like doorways [...]

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Long Live the First Amendment!

Iranian president Ahmadinejad was invited to speak at Columbia University on Monday.
I, for one, was delighted that the college invited the man to come and deliver a speech. There was a great deal of uproar and protest around the event, but the college – rightly – stood by their decision to go ahead with [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday

Ten burning questions:
1. How, exactly, DID those pyramids get built?

2. What really happened to Jimmy Hoffa?

3. Was there a gunman on the grassy knoll?

4. Are there really aliens, and did they land at Roswell?

5. While we’re at it, what’s up with crop circles?

6. If we can hurt ourselves in [...]

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YUM!

I’m not usually a ‘mix’ person. I mean, yes: there are some things that are just better out of a box – brownies and yellow cake among them; I’ve yet to find a scratch recipe that beats out Dunkin Hines for these things – but, for the most part, I’m a make-it-from-scratch kinda girl.
I [...]

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Friends

There has been a fair bit of buzz in my world lately about friends. Meno had a post about friends, I’ve got a Girlfriend who’s been doing some tough work with some friends, my sister has been thinking about her relationship to her friends and how the people we spend time with influence who [...]

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Civics on Saturday: The Constitution, Part I – The Preamble

Happy Saturday, Everyone!
I’m continuing my investigation of the founding documents of the United States of America. We had a close look at the Declaration of Independence a few weeks ago (and please, continue to comment – there’s no such thing as a closed Civics on Saturday post) and, after your generous granting of an [...]

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