May 10th, 2008
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day.
Yes, thank you, Captain Obvious.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, this fact is painfully clear to you. Did you buy your mom a card? Does she really know how much you love her? Are you as good to your mother as she was to you? Hmmm? Hallmark, the diamond store and […]
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April 25th, 2008
When I was little, I had a book entitled, “The Girl with Two Birthdays.” I had a lot of books, but this is one I remember clearly. It was smaller than most, so I couldn’t use it when I built my Little Golden Books towers - structures built like card houses that I would […]
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April 9th, 2008
Kawasaki, Japan was the place to be on Sunday - over 30,000 people (and perhaps just as many phallic objects) were on hand to celebrate the annual fertility festival. According to a Reuters report the Kanamara festival dates back over three hundred years when ladies of the night asked for protection from an epidemic of […]
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March 23rd, 2008
Or Easter. Or whatever you’re into. Eostre is thought to be the name of an Anglo-Saxon goddess whose feast day was Christianized to Easter:
Eostre represents the re-birth of life and nature after the harsh weather of the winter months. The egg, which may be a symbol of Eostre, is believed to represent that very re-birth.
She […]
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January 8th, 2008
Last week, I tried to take a stab at some Resolutions for 2008 and as you may have noticed, I’ve already fallen short on a few (under promise; over deliver) when I promised you a book review and then made you wait not one but two days for it.
Sorry about that.
There are so many potentially […]
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