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Missing Since Katrina
If you have contacts in the Mississippi area, please check out this friend's plea for locating missing relatives .
sursumcorda, 2 September 2005 |
Tuesday and Wednesday (Aug 30-31)
Here’s another post with a boring title. Work has been keeping me busy and it is more of the same. I am still enjoying it,...
Got Profit?
Pressure is increasing on schools to remove that nutritional disaster called soda from their vending machines and replace it with...
Aug. 28-29 (Sunday, Monday)
Sunday (Aug. 28 th ) I decided to bike until I hit mountains no matter what it took. I went for about 45min directly West on what...
Katrina
By this time last year we had already experienced our first major hurricane, Charley, but Frances, Jeanne, and Ivan were September...
Adventure in Fujiyoshida, or How I came to be stranded at...
Friday toward the end of work I c-mailed Mark (that’s text messaging between AU customers; if US cell phones were this complicated...
School Has Begun!
Well, I had no idea I would be so busy at school. I’m sorry I haven’t written in so long. First school kept me busy then I...
It's All About Money
In England, Darren and Debbie Wyatt are fighting in court to save the life of their 22-month old daughter, Charlotte, who is...
East Is East and West Is West -- but Both Get WEATHER
We awoke to our first hurricane warning of the season: Hurricane Katrina is heading towards South Florida, but that doesn't mean we're...
Sun-Tues. Aug 21-23 (Isawa fireworks, 1st long day at...
Mark and I were dead tired when we met Niko at the library to go to the Isawa fireworks festival, but I was impressed with how well we...
Phone non-Service
This has been going on long enough I'd better post a notice here: our phones have been out since some time after 3:30 p.m. today. This...
A Lovely Sabbath Afternoon
After lunch we used our United Arts two-for-one card to visit the Orlando Museum of Art and their new M. C. Escher exhibit. I’ve...
Camping at Lake Motosuko and my second encounter with the...
I get all discombobulated when I spend a night away from home, so I hope I’m starting where I left off. The Lake Motosu ko...
Local Warming
It hasn't been this hot in Orlando since 1950. Today's high was 97 degrees, officially, though when we were out in the car its...
R-F August 18-19 (more seminar, debating Iraq!, more...
I guess it wasn’t a very exciting past two days, but I’m posting now because it might be another few days before I can post again....
M-W August 15-17 (English conference, jamming with Kasia,...
I have not been able to post on the blog for a while since I have had a wonderful guest at my apartment all week. That plus the...
The Dangers of Epidurals, and the Surprising Problem with...
I've noted before some of the problems with epidural pain relief during childbirth, and my latest reading, Lise Eliot's What's Going...
Brief Earthquake News
I'll let Janet fill in the details about the earthquake in Japan , but I know you are waiting to hear that she is all right. She is!
Nobody's Fool
Nobody's Fool , by Richard Russo (Random House, New York, 1993) I can't say as I recommend Nobody's Fool , since it's the...
August 13-14 (yakitori, cooking, getting dressed up in a...
Saturday I woke to the phone at 10:30am. It must have been a wrong number, because I got an earful of Japanese. I managed to...
Friday, August 12, 2005
Today wasn’t nearly as exciting as the previous days so I had a bit of time to catch my breath. I’m not going to bed as early...
Why Smiles in Posed Pictures Often Seem Fake
I'm reading an extraordinarily important and fascinating book: What's Going on in There: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First...
Local Orientation: Thursday, August 11th 2005
Before I launch into boring details, I thought I'd mention what I wonderful time I had at orientation. To find out, skip over the days...
Not a Coincidence
There's purpose and meaning in all aspects of our lives, even the seemingly random incidents. We don't often have the privilege of...
Stargirl
Stargirl , by Jerry Spinelli (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2000) My nephew is going into seventh grade, and this was part of his...