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Thoughts for the Weekend: Worship Wisely

I'm not very good at posting on the weekend or during vacations, which is why I usually just opt to throw up a quote of some kind that's made me think about something in particular during the week. David Foster Wallace's…
Reading Makes You Crazy

Well, after a brief hiatus over the holidays due to moving, family-wrangling, a very mutual and amicable break-up, and a bad case of writer's block, I'm back. First, bees can become addicted to coke. A new study lays t…
A Swift Shoe to the Face

I shamelessly stole this image from The Rev's Rumbles: In other news, I'm no longer driving. A lot of miles and a lot of coffee got me back to the middle of our great nation and now I'm trying not to annoy everyone…
Stirred, Not Shaken.

I was in Richmond all day getting a hitch installed by UHaul so I can schlep all of my earthly belongings halfway across the country next week in an upcoming Big Move. I'm headed westward, and it's a long story for anoth…
Move your bloomin' arse!

I'm out of commission tomorrow, as I'm headed to the races. The Montpelier Hunt Races, that is! I can't say I'm much of a gambler, but I'm all for an activity that involves socially acceptable drinking in the late mornin…
An Act of Kindness

This story has considerably brightened my week: "Good Samaritan" Saves Crying Woman's Foreclosed Home Story Highlights (as listed on CNN.com): Stranger buys foreclosed home for woman on hard times "If it was you, …
Apples! Philosophy! Booze! Politics!

It's true that one's brain gets a bitmushy once one has graduated. But mine's getting quite the workoutthis week, thanks to Jean-LucMarion's lecture series at the University this week. Thanks tothe Jewish new yea…
OMG, I totally just figured out why I'm not married and it's all about...biscuits?

It's because I don't count rising at the asscrack of dawn to make homemade biscuits for my future husband and/or children an essential part of my marital responsibilities. Or at least that's Elroy Riggs's theory. Actual…
Bet you can't guess where I'll be this weekend!

Chillin' undercover at "one of the nation's most prestigious motorsports events:"The Coca-Cola 600In addition to being lodged between hundreds of thousands of NASCAR fans, I will also bear witness to the Salute the Troop…