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Sylvia Browne

Simple.  Channel Hillary.
He can’t seem condescending.  He can’t really sell his record (yawn — especially next to a sexy librarian with great guns).
He definitely can’t attack her (meanie!).
But Hillary can!
Imagine him spending the entire debate responding as though he were Hillary’s advocate.  No matter what you think of her compared to Obama, Hillary’s policies TROUNCE […]

Previously, I asked if there was anything better than Kiva.org.
Kiva allows lenders to organize themselves into groups, or “lending teams.”  When I saw the Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious lending team, I was sold.  (There are other groups organized on a full range of interests/issues.)
I am so surprised that it took […]

Recently, I saw Peter Mansbridge interview Muhammad Yunus.  I think I had heard about him a few years ago when his idea of micro-finance was first reported on the news, or maybe when he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006.
The whole idea of lending very small amounts of money to the very poor just […]

I was talking to a friend the other day about people who are planners, and people who are not.
I think that I used to be under the impression that it is important to plan, and to like it, and to say you liked it.
Then I remembered that the first few big vacations I ever went […]

Just when you think you can run away….
Someone smart and experienced comes along and says EXACTLY what you don’t want need to hear.
This is why I mistrust smart and experienced people so much.

Here’s a new thing: Fill-in-the-blank Poetry
Ed
the fed
is ____
While you’re working that out, here’s a funny story…
A few months after I started a new job at the Department of Fishies and Oceans. My sister, who also works for the federal government here in sunny Canada, had been listening to me rant about the new […]

The other day I was sitting in drum class. We were doing this thing where we each got a chance to do a little solo. I completely flubbed mine.
Later another student, a school teacher, mentioned how it’s tough to just rattle off phrases when you’re learning because your repertoire is so small.
This […]

So, I’m driving my brother to the train station the other day. On the way, he mentions it’d be nice to hit a Starbucks if we see one. We don’t.
But when we get to the station, it’s covered in tarps and surrounded by a construction fence. Seems there was a little fire […]