Jumping Into the Fray O.K. I've held off for quite a while, now, about the H1N1 virus and vaccine, quietly reading the many posts abo...

in need of some taming Ancient Pali texts liken meditation to the process of taming a wild elephant. The procedure in those days was to t...

On Saturday I got a letter in the mail from the Los Angeles Unified School District. This is what it said: Dear Parent/Guardian: This...

Here is your Host, Master Oliver, ready to pick, randomly, the winner of the HUGE, BESTSELLING new anthology My Baby Rides the Short Bus: ...

I'm knitting, again, after a seven year hiatus. I'm making a scarf with a three-strand wool, ribbon and string yarn. It's purp...

(with apologies to my father, who deplores politics on my blog, believing that it drives some people away...) I spent about twenty m...

Don't get too excited unless you're the parent of a child with special needs or you know a parent of a child with special needs or ...

Today's Corner View theme is Contrast and our host is Dana. THINGS THAT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO AND AM EXCITED ABOUT: 1. This movie...

how much I loved this song.

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Update: Thanks to one of my kind blogging friends, there is actually an easier link to my newest publication. You don't get to see what ...

is so strange that I don't even have a photo that would have anything to do with this post. Maybe this would do: A map of Ancient Spa...

Where's Waldo? A Zombie Baseball Player Mirtha did the make-up, and was called an amazing woman by Henry. I agree. ...

Lovely title for a blog post, no? But I was struck by an article written about the philosopher Kierkegaard, someone I studied long ago in...