Politics And More

POD Thoughts

June 28, 2013

Some thoughts on the state of the pod-world today. This started out as a response to the question “why?” asked in the (now defunct) PODforYou Forums about recent changes at CafePress.com and Zazzle.com but is a bit long and rambling for a forum post. Zazzle [read more]

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Statement of Faith

June 17, 2013

May 2015 Update: 2014 Pew Study Released: The results/ analysis of the The 2014 Religious Landscape Study has just been released: “Among respondents who identify themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual, fully 41% are religiously unaffiliated, and fewer than half (48%) describe themselves as Christians.” [read more]

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Little Blessings

April 17, 2013

I’ve mentioned before that I have been supplementing my income by doing seasonal work with a national School Picture firm. As I wrote last fall, the job is formula-driven to control costs and ensure consistency. I knew that going in so have always referred to [read more]

Brushing Fame

Early Morning Thoughts 2

March 31, 2013

Another EMT™ ‘Early Morning Thought’ inspired by listening to the radio on my way home from taking jason to work for the early shift. The specific song that inspired it is “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” by Carole King. And the EMT™ that it [read more]

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Book Recommendation: Cat Daddy

March 28, 2013

I don’t have a specific attraction to books about addiction and I’m not exactly an addict myself (see this recent post for more on that subject). However I do enjoy a well-written, honest, non-apologetic (while also not self-aggrandizing) biography that shares a story of the [read more]

Family, Identity

Mother of the Bride

February 20, 2013

In this earlier post I mention that I developed an allergy to alcohol “diagnosed out of town at a friend’s wedding where the mother of the bride hated me,” but didn’t go into more detail as it would have distracted from the main point of [read more]