I get a lot of traffic to this blog because of my pictures of Maya’s cleft lip and resulting surgery. I also confess to being overly emotional (read: completely nuts) when I found out about it because I was so terribly afraid. Would I spend time reading up on cleft lips and palates [...]
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“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a crossâ€. -Sinclair Lewis, 1885-1951
Today we got some burgers at Burger King, and, because I am inherently a guilt-obsessed person, I got online to see where, exactly, Burger King got its beef.
I recently saw an article in National Geographic about the Brazilian rainforest and how its decimation hasn’t really been slowed by environmental groups the past ten years. [...]
I had to start with this picture, because the scenery is so beautiful, and it makes me want to visit. When I was a kid, I swore I would never, ever visit Thailand after I heard a missionary couple talk about how their housekeeper mashed up a giant cockroach into their salad (on purpose, [...]
Well, our car situation came to a crisis, and the crisis hath passed. Yay!!!
Last week, our 1990 Volvo wagon went kaput. It’s been having problems for a while and kept dying, but last week it finally just gave up.
We put it up for sale on Craigslist and hoped for the best. We [...]
