A lot of people talk about 'the big picture' but very few actually consider the real big picture. I am going to outline my understanding of it. It has the potential to make you feel a whole lot better about life in general, or utterly terrify you and make all of life seem bleak and meaningless. My view of it is: We are all tiny insignificant specks of rapidly degrading carbon, on a tiny...

Favorite only pictures back one Andrew and I went to see Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince last night. I won't say that I loved it and I won't say I hated it. I guess I am still letting it sink it how I felt about it. I will say that I hate David Yates as the director and I wish Chris Columbus stayed on for all of the movies. The first two movies really set the mood and really showed...

Your hands envelope mine as if they were but pearls, clasped around my fingers like our deepest secrets, lifting my heart to the ceiling, our lips have closed that distance, the distance I've only met in my dreams, your skin is no longer foreign terrain, but a path well remembered, always longed for, Never have I once felt hands that could trace the most jagged parts of me, or a...

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince = fail. Character development was shit. Random scenes that never happened in the book were random and did not add to the plot of the film. Emotions that should have been running high were almost non existent. It concentrated almost entirely on the romantic aspects of the book.  Which was lame.  There was a lot of relationship...

Ok, so the puppy I talked about in my last entry needs a real name.  We have been calling her Hunni but we have already had a dog named Hunnie and I really like unique names.  All me and Quinn and my aunt can come up with are food/flower names and I hate those names.  Then I thought of calling her Razzledazzle (Razzle or Razz for short) but Quinn laughed at it.  My aunt...

Randal Rauser, an historian of theology who writes for the Christian Post, describes in a recent post three “pet peeves” that he has concerning what atheists typically assume about Christians. It basically boils down to what most people consider to be in line with “fundamentalist” or “evangelical” Christianity. Here they are: First, atheists often...

*Though the person telling the story has Lupus, I feel that this can and does apply to Fibromyalgia* Mandy you made me remember this story. The Spoon Theory My best friend Jenni and I were in the diner talking. We never got serious about anything in particular and spent most of our time laughing. As I went to take some of my medicine with a snack as I usually did, she watched me this time,...

All my life I have watched men get ready for their day, and thought wow, you have it so easy. I mean really, all they do is get up, shower, and maybe put some hair gel in, and that is a big maybe. Not women, it is a production! Here is my morning: Up at 6am, head straight to the coffee machine I programmed the night before After coffee, go for a run After run, shower(in shower:...

Strange I am living in a strange situation. I live in a society where everybody and every one attacks, vilify, and demonize the united states, for some unexplained reason, I find myself immune to all these attacks!!!! Why? Why is it that everybody around me hate the US, but at the same time, everyone, in an indirect way, acknowledges its power  and influence. I can’t hate America,...

              We've all seen them. Many of us have been them at least once in our lives. It's a matter of some debate whether there really are more of them now than in the past, or if we just hear about them more now. Some are merely annoying, and some are dangerous or even...