It always amazes me how kids sleep. For the longest time, Ben slept with his bum in the air, his knees drawn up under him with his face planted on the mattress. Maya tends to sleep like a little curl, usually on her side with her toes pointed and her arms outstretched like [...]
While sorting through some things to pack or throw away, I came across this card, which I kept, because I love both quotes:
Missionaries, my dear! Don’t you realize that missionaries are the divinely provided food for destitute and underfed cannibals? Whenever they are on the brink of starvation, Heaven in its infinite mercy [...]
Although I featured this site on my financial blog, it’s cool enough I want to talk about Kiva here, too. Kiva is an organization that handles microloans for 3rd world countries. Basically you choose an individual in a poor country to lend money to — a microloan — and then you get paid [...]
Well, I’m not sure how I managed it, but I beat my 10K time on the 5-mile trail run (pace-wise, anyway). Of course, a 10K is 6.2 miles, which is quite a bit farther, but I thought I was training more last fall. I hurt more, that’s for sure. Regardless, I ran [...]
