Useful *and* stinky!

Facial hair and nipple tassels

from http://i.imgur.com/5LdZT.jpg

thanks to yon for pointing this out.

Fashioning a lovely mosaic from the shards of that glass ceiling

Women in the Obama White House: sexism and progress
by Stephanie Coontz
from http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/25/opinion/coontz-women-obama/index.html



President Barack Obama sits beside Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a Cabinet meeting in April 2009.


Editor's note: Stephanie Coontz teaches family studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and co-chairs the Council on Contemporary Families. Her most recent book is A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (BasicBooks).


(CNN) -- Back in 1971, I was present as top leaders of two political organizations met to negotiate common actions they could take despite their differences. One of those leaders was a woman. Over and over, she raised points for consideration, only to be ignored by both sides. When someone of the other team did agree with a proposal she made, he would wait a few minutes and then say so to one of her male colleagues, as though the suggestion had been his. "As you said, Jerry," or "That's probably the way to go, Sam."


No one on her team corrected the misattribution, though they laughed about it afterward. As the woman matter-of-factly explained to me, "He couldn't admit anything we said was right if he also had to admit that it had come from a woman."


How far have we come in 40 years? According to a new book on the the Obama administration, many of the president's advisers initially showed similar disregard for women. For the first two years, senior female aides complained that male colleagues ignored them, excluded them from key policy meetings, dismissed their opinions and limited their access to the president.


It is clear, however, that we have come a long way. When told of the women's concerns, President Barack Obama convened a dinner with the female staff and took steps to make the atmosphere more inclusive and empowering. Our nation now has three women on the Supreme Court, all of whom out-talk at least one of their male colleagues. And we have a female secretary of state who by all accounts does not get muscled aside by anyone, male or female.


Assessing the extent and impact of gender stereotypes is more complex today than it was in the early 1960s. Back then, "head and master" laws gave husbands the final say in most family decisions. Quotas limited the number of women who could be admitted to law or dental school. "Help wanted" ads for men only excluded women from even applying for most highly paid and challenging jobs. And of course, men and women in the same jobs were treated differently in salary and promotions.


Women now earn more B.A.'s and M.A.'s than men do, and they have pulled even in Ph.D's. Today, education trumps gender in determining pay, with the result that in most metropolitan regions women in their 20s tend to out-earn men in the same age group because of their greater educational achievement. By contrast, in 1970, a female college graduate who worked full-time year-round earned less than a white male high school graduate.


As President Obama's senior staff discovered, gender stereotypes still encourage men to dominate and females to defer, perpetuating women's second-class status in the workforce. Yet these same stereotypes can also penalize males in ways that were not obvious in the past, when male privilege had so many more legal and administrative supports.


The mystique of masculinity, for example, encourages many men to view studying hard as "a girl thing." It also leads many to seek work in the unstable, seasonal construction sector or in other "manly" jobs, many of which are concentrated in declining industries, rather than preparing themselves for "traditionally female" jobs in health care, child care, teaching, and social work."Manly" males bully other males who show interest in such work, accusing them of acting "gay" or being "girlie-men." And when men defy these stereotypes to seek such work, they often encounter gender discrimination from employers who believe that a man cannot be as good a nurturer or helper as a woman.


But at the top of the educational, economic, and political pyramid -- in what were traditionally "male" kinds of work -- gender stereotypes continue to penalize women. Catalyst, an organization formed in 1962 to help women enter the workplace, titled its 2007 report on the attitudes of more than 1,200 senior executives in the United States and Europe toward female employees: "Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't."


According to their report, when women "act assertively, focus on work tasks, display ambition," or engage in other behaviors that receive high praise when done by men, they are perceived as "too tough" and "unfeminine." But when women pay attention to work relationships and express "concern for other people's perspective," they are considered less competent than men.


In the television news industry, two-thirds of the news producers, but only 20 percent of the news directors, are female. Men make up more than three-quarters of all workers earning more than $100,000 a year, and only 2 percent of Fortune 500 companies are run by women.


Part of this pattern may stem from women's socialization not to put themselves forward too much. Young women are four times less likely than young men to negotiate their first salary, and economists estimate that this unwillingness to assert their own worth as workers ends up costing women $500,000 in earnings by the time they reach 60.


But part of the problem is that women's worth is consistently undervalued by others. A March 2010 study by the American Association of University Women found that among postdoctoral applicants, women had to publish three more papers in the most prestigious journals, or 20 more in the less-prestigious ones, to be considered as productive as male applicants.


And it remains true that many men are still socialized to put themselves forward too much, and literally cannot hear women who ask for what they want. A wise executive -- in a school, a business, or a nation -- must help his or her team learn to respect all styles of self-presentation and to listen to all views, as Obama evidently did when it was brought to his attention.

On duty posh

Voice mail

this is anna. i want to talk to you. hmph!
hmm hmm hmm.
*singing*
it's almost at my birthday.
hm, hm, hm, hm, yay!
hm, hm, hm, hm, yay!
yay, yay, yay, yay, yayyyy!


*click*

A home for your grocery bags

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2748 NW Crossing Dr., Suite 100

Bend, OR 97701

541-420-4961

"Count today," a blog post narrated and named by Anna

anna: you know what i want you to write on your little blog? 
dj: what do you want me to write on my little blog?
anna: "two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate? aunta deeeeeeee!" i want you to write that on your little blog.

The final countdown

dj: you are in your last days of being four!
anna: i know!
dj: what are you going to do to say goodbye to four?
anna: i'm going to write a sign on my refrigerator. "bye, four." . . . "goodbye, four. i'll miss you." i'm going to play my blow-up saxophone now.

Heartbreaking

anna: i am older than four and a half. milagro is only four and a half. she will just be a teenager when i am an adult.

. . .

milagro thinks beauty is important. i think it is not. i think it is important to be beautiful in your heart. in our first year of preschool, i asked her if i could play, and she said, "No, because you are not beautiful." so i said, "Okay, I'll just go play with someone else." and i went and found Mister Miles!

Participation ribbons for everyone!

raf, whose kids go to my alma mater: dj, since you're an [redacted] alum, i thought you might get a kick out of learning that your school is a blue-ribbon award winner this year! here's the note from the principal.


principal (in letter to parents of students): ". . . When twenty-three years ago I was asked to take on the challenge of taking over a school that was in danger of closing, I rose to the occasion, even though I admit the first year was rough. . . ."


dj: AWKWARD: that my grade school was on the verge of collapse when herf and i were there. was that true? i just remember i loooooooved it when the lice lady came to check my hair. it felt soooo good. *beat* i think i just answered my own question.

Apparently this is a thing

safe-for-work pr0n:

The Talk

overheard . . .


young girl: when will i grow a beard on my bottom, mom?

Forward far and wide

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/wan/2600595255.html

Keynotable

Black and white and red, all over

End of berry season

Strawberry Shortcakes
from http://www.marthastewart.com/337611/strawberry-shortcakes
serves 8


Note: my friend's mom used to make strawberry shortcake all the time, and we would split the hot drop biscuits, ladle the macerated, sweetened berries over them, and drown it all in cold milk. mmm. soooo good. still my favorite way to enjoy strawberry shortcake.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 pounds (about 6 cups) fresh strawberries
1/4 cup plus 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled), plus more for dusting
1/2 cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1 cup sweetened whipped cream (or else cold milk)


Directions

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Make the sweetened strawberries: Hull and quarter strawberries; toss in a medium bowl with 1/4 cup sugar. Let stand until syrupy, tossing occasionally, at least 20 minutes (and up to 1 day, covered and refrigerated).
2. In a food processor, combine flour, butter, 1/3 cup sugar, baking powder, and salt; process until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add milk; pulse just until moistened, 4 or 5 times. Do not overprocess.
3. Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface; with floured hands, gently pat dough into a 4-by-8-inch rectangle.
4. Dust a large knife with flour; cut dough into 8 squares. Transfer to a baking sheet; sprinkle with 1 tablespoon sugar. Bake until golden, 25 to 30 minutes; cool on baking sheet. To serve, split biscuits with a serrated knife; layer with berries and whipped cream (or pour cold milk over top, as desired).

You are the one you've been waiting for

A fascinating brief history of 43

from http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/bush/

Bush at the White House, Tuesday, June 4, 2002. AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

INDEPTH: GEORGE W. BUSH 43rd President of the United States CBC News Online | Updated Nov. 19, 2004 "Our greatest export is freedom and we have a moral obligation to champion it throughout the world" – George W. Bush, from his autobiography A Charge to Keep. When George Walker Bush was sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States few could have predicted the coming crisis that would soon grip the country and test his mettle as leader. QUICKFACTS Born: July 6, 1946 Birthplace: New Haven, Conn. Family: Parents George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush. Brothers Neil, Jeb, Marvin, and sisters Dorothy and Robin (who died of Leukemia at age three) Wife: Laura (married 1977) Children: Barbara and Jenna Education: · Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. · BA (history) from Yale University · MBA from Harvard University Childhood hero: Willie Mays 1968 to 1973 - Texas Air National Guard 1976 - Makes first foray into the oil industry with Bush Oil 1978 - Runs unsuccessfully for Congress 1989 - Forms group of investors to buy Texas Rangers baseball team. He served as one of two managing general partners until 1994 1990 - Sells most of his oil stock and options 1994 - Elected governor of Texas 1998 - Re-elected governor of Texas Jan. 2001 - Sworn in as 43rd president of the United States Oct. 2001 - Creates the Dept. of Homeland Security in response to 9/11 March 2003 - U.S. begins invasion of Iraq Nov. 2004 - Wins a second terms as president At the time of his election, Bush had just cleared the hurdle that was the Florida vote-counting dispute, not to mention revelations of a 25-year-old drunk-driving charge. He was criticized for his less-than-stellar knowledge of world leaders. His early foreign policy was reminiscent of isolationist policies of the Roosevelt administration of the 1930s, and he pulled the United States out of the Kyoto agreements, the ABM treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban treaty. But on the warm, sunny morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the world around came crashing in. The attacks on the U.S. that day killed nearly 3,000 people and transformed the president into the self-appointed leader of the war on terror. Bush led the country into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the latter with limited support from the rest of the world. He faced criticism in the U.S. for the reliability of the evidence his administration used to go into Iraq and for cutting taxes in a time of war. The presidential race between Bush and Democratic candidate Senator John Kerry brought up all these issues and more, but Bush ultimately prevailed, and American voters give him a second term. George Junior George W. Bush was an adult when his father was president, so he didn't grow up in the White House. Gail Sheehy wrote an article about George W. Bush for Vanity Fair magazine in October 2000. She interviewed dozens of his childhood friends, Bible study buddies, old girlfriends and cronies from his oil and baseball past. "He's much more like Barbara Bush than he is like George Bush Sr.," she said in an interview with CBC's The National. "He grew up much closer to her, because his father was away, running for office, being president. He was also close to his mother when his little sister (Robin) died. His mother was the one who took him under her protection when he had trouble in school and was drilling him with flash cards on Saturday morning as late as the eighth grade when he was 12 or 13 years old." Bush attended Phillips Academy, a grand old boarding school in Andover, Mass., known for producing some of America's greats. There he played on the basketball team and was a member of the cheerleading squad. He was a popular student, known more for his charisma than his grades. He says his strengths were history, math and Spanish; English was a weak spot. He graduated in 1964, joining an alumni list that already included his father (1942), inventor Samuel Morse, actors Humphrey Bogart (1920) and Jack Lemmon (1943), and Bush's current civilian administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer (1959). "Lip" At Yale, one of his nicknames was "Lip," owing to his outspokenness. He was head cheerleader, played varsity baseball, basketball and rugby. He was a decent student and an enthusiastic member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and, like his father, a member of the secretive Skull and Bones society. George W. Bush sits in an F102 fighter jet while serving in the Texas Air National Guard in this undated file photo. Bush, a member of the Yale class of 1968, debated his military options over the Christmas break of his final year of college, and chose the National Guard. (AP Photo/Austin American Statesman) By the time Bush graduated in 1968, America was embroiled in the Vietnam War and he, along with many people his age, was facing the potential of being drafted. And while he wasn't exactly against the war, he didn't seem eager to serve, either. So, with help from his father, Bush weathered the war from the relative safety of the Texas Air National Guard. Sheehy says that at that point in his life he seemed to have few goals other than partying, an uncomfortable contrast to the earnest and workaholic George Sr. "He quite unapologetically says that he partied until he was 40," she says. "He was somewhat confused, aimless. We know that somewhere in his mid- to late-20s he had a confrontation with his father – well, that's pretty normal, but this one was kind of an adolescent confrontation," Sheehy says. He challenged his dad to a fistfight. "Mano a mano with Daddy, at 26, when you're drunk. And I think it indicated some sense of inadequacy that he knew no other way to vent, than to challenge his father." By 1973 Bush was given an early release from National Guard duty to begin working on an MBA at Harvard. There, he buckled down and, by many accounts, was a dedicated student. But the drinking didn't stop. In 1976, a year after his graduation from Harvard, Bush was arrested near his parents' home in Kennebunkport, Maine, for driving while under the influence of alcohol. He pleaded guilty, paid a $150 fine and had his driving privileges suspended for a short time. "I'm not proud of that," he told CNN during his presidential campaign in 2000. "I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much, and I did that night. I learned my lesson." But that would only come a decade later, in 1986, not long after a visit with evangelist Billy Graham. In his autobiography A Charge to Keep, Bush reflects on the day he decided to give up alcohol. He says he made the decision a day after a friend's birthday party in Colorado. "People later asked whether something special happened, some incident, some argument or accident that turned the tide," he wrote, "but no, I just drank too much and woke up with a hangover." Oil rigs and ballparks After earning his MBA, George W., like his father, went into the oil business in Texas. George senior had got rich in the oil industry. The son's oil company failed, and was bailed out by relatives and powerful friends of the Bush family. Then, the best job he could imagine came along. He became part owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team. Bush cheers for the Texas Rangers Friday, Sept. 27, 1996, at The Ballpark in Arlington, Texas. Bush was the managing general partner for the Rangers before his 1994 gubernatorial win. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) "I remember thinking 'This is as good as it gets,'" he wrote in his autobiography. "Life cannot get better than this." He attended almost every game and many assumed that he was the owner, even though he'd bought only a two per cent share using borrowed money. He spent time in the dugout, rubbing shoulders with players and fans. Here, he would hone his populist instincts that would come to serve him so well politically. In the meantime, more than a handful of Republicans and powerful Texas oilmen urged him to run for governor. It was the first step in the path towards the presidency, even though politics didn't seem high on his list of priorities. But he agreed to run, and in 1994 he stepped down as managing general partner of the Rangers. In the gubernatorial race that year he beat incumbent Ann Richards and became governor of Texas, a post he held for six years. Politics agreed with him and in 1998 he sold his share of the Texas Rangers, netting a reported $15 million. When Bush became governor, Texas was known as the death state because of its record of executing prisoners. The most notorious case under Bush's watch was Carla Faye Tucker, a vicious murderer who'd undergone a jailhouse Christian repentance. Her story moved religious leaders around the world who pleaded for a delay. Governor Bush would not relent and she died on schedule. Bush defends his Texas record. "I don't believe we've ever executed an innocent person in Texas," he has said. Gail Sheehy interviewed many people who'd concluded that George W., famous for mangling language, is dyslexic. "The first thing I think you have to know is that George Bush has a very short attention span, five to 10 minutes, 15 maximum," Sheehy says. "And this comes from his own chief of staff, and his closet friends and associates." That charge was the reason he wouldn't talk to her for her article. "So, his reaction to this question being raised," says Sheehy, "was to say on the campaign plane when other reporters asked him, 'the woman who said I was dyslexic, I didn't interview her.' Which was quite an amusing switch of what he really meant to say. But he did admit that he has never been tested." Bill Minutaglio is a Texas writer who wrote an unauthorized biography of George W. Bush in 1999. "I interviewed over 300 people for my book and George Bush is not a voracious reader," Minutaglio told CBC in late 2000. "I've travelled with him, I've been on the campaign airplane with him and I haven't seen him curl up with a big stack of books. That doesn't suggest, on the flip side, that he's not a smart guy. A lot of people look at that and say he can't possibly be a rocket scientist. I think he's incredibly clever, he knows his limitations, he's a good delegator. He knows in some sense, a little like Ronald Reagan did, when to set people off on different tasks. He's clearly a big picture guy." It's an edge that endears Bush to many voters, says Sheehy. "George W. never makes anyone feel less intelligent than he," Sheehy says. "He's just a good old guy trying to do the right thing and talking just like your kid brother would talk to you and telling you straight on. The myth has settled on him. Despite having been the president's son, he successfully campaigned as a Washington outsider. Raised in wealth and privilege, a graduate of Yale and Harvard, he has acquired the image of a plain-speaking Texan who bootstrapped his way up. The war on terror As rescue efforts continued in the rubble of the World Trade Center, Bush put his arms around firefighter Bob Beckwith while standing in front of the World Trade Center debris, Friday, September 14, 2001. Bush is standing on a burned fire truck. (AP Photo/Doug Mills) When the United States was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, Bush the populist went to work trying to reassure a country shaken by death and destruction. He visited the "pile" in New York where emergency personnel worked feverishly to rescue survivors, recover the dead and dismantle the rubble. During his visit he stood atop the hulk of a New York City fire engine, which was partially buried in the rubble, and addressed a group of construction workers. One of the workers yelled, "We can't hear you." To that, Bush responded, "I hear you, the rest of the world hears you, and the people who knocked down these buildings will hear all of us soon!" Speaking six days later in a joint session of Congress, Bush said, "our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated." So began the war on terror. It came first to Afghanistan in the fall of 2001 when U.S. forces embarked on a manhunt for Osama bin Laden his al-Qaeda network. At this point, America – with Bush at the helm – withdrew into itself and became fortress America. Borders tightened, the Department of Homeland Security was created and money was pumped into the military. The Sept. 11 attacks sparked overtures of solidarity and support from across the world, but as time wore on, it became apparent that Bush's acceptance of that support was conditional. On Nov. 6, 2001, before the U.S. invasion was launched on Afghanistan, Bush issued an ultimatum. "Full warning (of the strike) has been given and time is running out. The United States has presented a clear choice to every nation: stand with the civilized world or stand with the terrorists." The message was repeated in the days leading up to the strike on Iraq. America was hurting and Bush was drawing battle lines. Although the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan was roundly supported – NATO, the UN and EU all offered to take part – an invasion of Iraq would prove to be a tougher sell. Bush during a visit to the Afghan Embassy in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2002. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Not long into the Afghanistan campaign, Bush talked seriously about disarming Iraq's Saddam Hussein of his alleged cache of weapons of mass destruction. As UN weapons inspections failed to uncover the weapons, Bush grew more adamant about the need to invade. Skeptics saw it as a convenient reason for Bush to exact revenge for Saddam's verbal support of the Sept. 11 attacks. For his part, Bush had, in fact, had his eye on Iraq long before Sept. 11. In his first news conference at the White House in February of that year, he put the world on notice. "The primary goal," he said, "is to make it clear to Saddam that we expect him to be a peaceful neighbour in the region and we expect him not to develop weapons of mass destruction. And if we find him doing so, there will be a consequence." By January 2003, UN inspections still had turned up nothing and Bush – convinced of an Iraqi threat – had lost patience with those who wanted to give the inspectors more time. "This business about ... more time. How much time do we need to see clearly that he's not disarming? As I said, this looks like a rerun of a bad movie and I'm not interested in watching it." So two months later the U.S., with the help of the U.K., led an attack on Iraq. Bush and his U.K. counterpart Tony Blair had circumvented the multilateral process and gone it alone without the support of the UN, NATO or any other multinational organization. In the presidential election race, Bush faced criticism over the mounting death toll in Iraq and an electorate growing increasingly weary of war. By September 2004, the number of U.S. forces killed in the Iraq war had passed 1,000. Polls leading up to election day asking Americans to choose between Bush and Democrat John Kerry were too close to call. In the end, though, Bush took the key swing states of Florida and Ohio and won the election.

Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by [their] worth, for then it hath no end. 


—Shakespeare

Heyyyyyy, buddy

Peaches and cream

serve over vanilla ice cream.


Peach Cobblers
serves 4


from http://www.marthastewart.com/344006/peach-cobblers?czone=food/produce-guide-cnt/summer-produce-recipes&backto=true&backtourl=/photogallery/peach-recipes

Ingredients
Filling
1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar (depending on sweetness of fruit)
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 1/2 pounds peaches, halved, pitted, cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices, and cut in half again crosswise (about 4 cups)
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice


Topping
1 cup all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)
3 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
2/3 cup low-fat buttermilk


Directions

1. Make the filling: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, whisk together sugar and cornstarch. Add peaches and lemon juice; toss to combine. Divide filling evenly among four 8-ounce custard cups (or one 2-quart baking dish); transfer to a rimmed baking sheet.
2. Make the topping and bake: In a large bowl, whisk together flour, 3 tablespoons sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Using a pastry blender or your fingers, blend in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add buttermilk; stir just until a dough forms. Drop dough onto peaches, using about 1/3 cup dough for each custard cup. Sprinkle dough with remaining teaspoon sugar. Bake until fruit is bubbling and biscuit topping is golden brown, 35 to 45 minutes. Let cool 15 minutes; serve warm.

Rosemary for remembrance

You were in several of my English Lit classes, a senior to my junior, the first year we both shared on campus, one of us always having been abroad before then. Your smarts and exuded cool impressed me straight away, making up for lost time. During class I peeked sidelong at your severe chignon and bold lipstick and was cowed. Your cool confidence and exuded maturity were so marked and *baffled* me. I studied them, parsed them. And then, bonus! I happened to meet the hot guy you were dating, and your image in my mind coalesced: you were definitely a bad ass.


A smart, together, sophisticated, driven bad ass, with an urbane air that for all I know you carried with you even long before you spent a year walking The Eternal City's cobblestone streets. In class your hand was always in the air, your comments astute, concise, raising the bar. I quietly, internally, identified you as classroom competition and pushed myself to participate as fully and thoughtfully as you did.


Suzanne, I'm sure you had no idea that this sort of mousy underclassman was observing you so closely and pushing to up her game because of your example. And I keep thinking, if you made such an impact on *me*, a most casual acquaintance who never remembers exchanging even one personal word with you, how terrible must be the loss suffered by those who knew you best.


When our classmate Kathleen told me about your death a few months later, I couldn't quite believe it—you were too full of life and promise to be a mere mortal. That lipstick! That austere classroom confidence! That razor-sharp intellect! Were they a talisman against nothing? But of course you were in a Manhattan boardroom. Of course you were traveling for a Chicago firm. Of course you were moving, moving, impressing people with your calm capability (and probably disarming them right away with that bright red smile). You were *always* going places; that much was evident to even this casual observer of a small part of your journey. And so it becomes all the more confusing that you are no longer here.


Over the past ten years, whenever September 11 comes to mind, thoughts of you are interwoven. I search for your name on the memorials and among the annual remembrance news stories, and before long I am back in that classroom, attentive to your every comment, wondering if maybe, perhaps, I could get away with that shade of red.


I remember you, Suzanne Kondratenko!

Footprints in the sand

When asked why there was only one set of foot prints, Jesus replied, "The Sand People ride single file to hide their numbers."

Embracing the other