The last two weeks have been over the top busy (organising not one, but TWO birthday parties for the little tyke's first birthday ~ which meant TWO ca ... View all

Here is the text and audio for His Holiness sermon for the closing Mass of the WYD events in Sydney, Australia. My emphases and comments. Dear Frie ... View all

PAWTUCKET -- It's a crime that has police are shaking their heads. As women have visited St. Francis Cemetery, placing flowers on graves, saying pra ... View all

Martin Eisenstadt, an advisor to John McCain and former Giuliani consultant is apparently as desperate as the McCain Campaign itself. So much so that ... View all

While it is miserable for us to get entangled into a lawsuit, it is also a fact that most of us face financial trouble as an offshoot of the unfortuna ... View all

Happy Father's Day to the men who read this blog - all four of you! I hope you enjoyed a great day with your offspring. This morning we woke up and go ... View all

Four years ago right now Curtis and I were having our big adventure in Northeast England. We spent five months trying to build a youth group at a smal ... View all

(I wrote this yesterday, so humor me.) It's my dog's birthday. He is four. Since our family has recently lost two beloved canine friends, I feel like ... View all

The SOFA is dead. Long live the SOFA!According to U.S. and Iraqi officials, no agreement on a long-term bilateral security framework will be possible ... View all

At times I worry that my stories get a bit redundant. I’m just a single, city dwelling gal after all, albeit one that happens to move. A lot. Hold ... View all

You know how I’ve been hinting in post after post, about all of these photos I’d be sharing with you soon? Last night I downloaded literally 200 phot ... View all

Do I have any rights in determining my care and who is guardian over my life? Family interactions are making it impossible for me to determine who's i ... View all

It's me. (and in this picture I am dressed up as Maleficent....I know, I know, it is a good look for me) Are you surprised? Didn't you know that my hu ... View all

My first mistake was drinking old caster oil. I drank it on a Tuesday and was sure I would have a baby in my arms by Wednesday; but when Thursday came ... View all

Yesterday I explained what Jérôme Guillet in the European Tribune calls The Anglo Disease, and how it has produced a completely dysfuncti ... View all

I've written before about the idea of creating a responsible, sustainable, joyful, Natural Economy, and about how difficult it is to 'get there' becau ... View all

Charlie's been watching the press roll out of the new HBO miniseries Generation Kill with some interest. (Brief recap: Generation Kill began as a se ... View all

Here's what CBS has done with its schedule. Of all the networks this is likely the one with the least need to be adjused short of some slight tinkerin ... View all

Most of what follows isn't going to make much sense to many of the people who are going to read this, but it illustrates a number of things. Or maybe ... View all

The Emmy Award nominations were announce on Thursday and it's time to give an overview of the "big stories." And there are some interesting stories, m ... View all

According to Fox News, Chris Noth is leaving Law & Order Criminal Intent. It wouldn’t surprise me, he just seemed to be phoning it in his last epi ... View all

With the recent Heller ruling - maybe this could mean having an actual citizens militia again: Quote: Reclaiming Ou ... View all

Richard S. Lowry gives us an insider's look at HBO's new miniseries "Generation Kill", which began on Sunday, July 13, 2008 @ 9 PM ET. The 7-part seri ... View all

OK, here we go again. Vacation #2 for the summer is here, and this will be my last blog effort until a week from Monday. This time, two very capable ... View all

Murph, making the stab Bob Sturm is on vacation. Headed to Colorado, "a place where the beer flows like wine. Where beautiful women instinctively flo ... View all

Dang! Just checked the news before turning in for the night and it says George Carlin died. Well he was 71, had a long and amazing career at least, ... View all

Oh man, is it ever cold. Went to the beach for a swim and it's still too cold. Maybe next week.HBO ran all the George Carlin shows in a row so I rec ... View all

By Andrew L. Jaffee … “We should prepare our children and men for jihad,” she said. The crowd responded with shrill chants of R ... View all

In the past few years since we first came to Kentucky, I became aware of an interesting term: homeplace. This word is used in reference to the place w ... View all

Now for anyone who used to follow The Beverly Hillbillies, the character of Jed hailed from Bugtussle (I had not remembered that fun fact, but my husb ... View all

A used VeryFine box trailer "packed up and ready to go": phase 1 of the Pond Do-it-Yourself Moving Plan (and that's just the barn and yard stuff). Goo ... View all

Zoom! Pow! Crash! Zing!Faster than a speeding bullet, using her sonic-boom voice, zapping everyone with her laser beam eyes, Wonder Woman is on the s ... View all

Bulletin issued by the Transvaal Agricultural Union With the world focused on the antics of Africa’s newest dictator Robert Mugabe, it is perhaps not ... View all

This week, ABC Wednesday host & now friend, Denise [Mrs Nesbitt's Place] passed on two awards to all, those who had participated in her wonderful ... View all

This July is proving as cool, grey & miserable as last year.Thankfully not quite as wet. It was a year ago yesterday, that THE colossal down-pours ... View all

http://digital-photography-school.c...ge-on-the-road/ "It’s very easy today to take more pictures in a single week long vacation than ever imagi ... View all

You know how they say the best things in life are free? Well, sometimes the best technologies are the simplest, at least in terms of how easy they are ... View all

Seafood truck near Buras,LA ~ Copyright © 2006 Aric Mayer Aric Mayer kindly dropped an email to bring my attention to his terrific essay/photo-essay i ... View all

If you're not familiar with all the technicalities of photography you might find it challenging to get professional looking photos. I remember m ... View all

Most of the time I'm ranting and complaining in my blog, so this time, I thought I'd share a very pleasant experience!!HERE GOES MY RAVING:Ok so the m ... View all

Nuffnang said they would be announcing the "I LOVE MY APPLE" contest results soon.. Told us to stay tuned and check our e-mails!By Sunday, when I rece ... View all

Last time I checked, I wasn't a poet. I still am not. So bear with my lame shot at wordplay. You have been warned. On a bar stool. Perched. Like a bi ... View all

Panasonic may have "announced" the ToughBook CF-U1 back in March, but it's only now getting around talking speeds, feeds and wallet drain. Even though ... View all

Deep in the northwest corner of Kobe, Japan, there's a factory hidden away among green rice paddies, and sleepy farming villages of tiled roofs. If yo ... View all

Hi All Getting intermittent failures using a 1760 router with 2 adsl wics. Looks to me line like one of the lines has a noise problem? Perhaps s ... View all

It’s scary to begin to think that our language sessions are already beginning to wind down, but over the next few weeks they will be doing just that. ... View all

Angela does it again in her New Musical Hit Song. I do have to say myself that this is her best one yet! ;-) You can watch it HERE! Casey Wrote: I ha ... View all

Tired of Cheaters! 43 yr old woman seeks maleI'm a 43 year old W female trying for the last time if there is a decent man in this world. You wanna scr ... View all

It has been far too long since I have shown a little love to the other great blogs around the b5Media Health And Wellness channel. So without further ... View all

STL like template based coding with the MMX/SSE extension By Hirotaka Niitsuma STL like template based coding with the MMX/SSE extension us ... View all