Saturday, March 31, 2012

Adventures in Cooking

Okay readers, my mom has given me a new challenge: cook dinner every Thursday for my family. This is their new ploy to avoid B. and I re-enacting this scene every time he'll come home from work:



Help me? I am looking for advice in cooking meat, and recipes that can easily be made bigger (as well as smaller). I'll be cooking for 7-8.

Oh! To add insult to injury, I got put on the Pintrest Waiting List. (Yes, I caved. I decided I need to further my information-gathering skills in an organized way!)

Happy almost Palm Sunday! Holy Week cometh!

Friday, March 30, 2012

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Stairway to Sacrilege

Ok Go, an alternative rock band known for catchy beats and viral YouTube videos, recently released a video in a Chevy commercial. The band drove a Chevy car through a two mile track of instruments, releasing their latest song, "Needing/Getting."


Their opening is, "I've been waiting for months, waiting for years, waiting for you to change./ Aw, but there ain't much that's dumber, there ain't much that's dumber/ Than pinning your hopes on a change in another./ And I, yeah, I still need you; but what good's that gonna do?/ Needing is one thing, and getting: getting's another."

This song, though about a girl, plays nicely into a recent NYT op-ed by psychologist Jonathan Haidt entitled, "Forget the Money, Follow the Sacredness." He writes to show the Right and Left's cultural narratives and their amazing ability to talk past each other on issues.

Continue reading at The Imaginative Conservative >>>>>>>>

Friday, March 23, 2012

Roaring Like A Lion

The Newsboys rock.



My computer will be back in 7-10 business days after I spilled three cups of coffee on it about two weeks ago. Actual posts of follow the return of my dear Dell!