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“We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”: a book review, part 1

Posted onSaturday 17 August 2013

Alice Walker’s 2006 book We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in A Time of Darkness is a collection of essays and presentations she has made over the previous decade. I quote extensively from her book throughout this review, since there were many things she wrote which I very much enjoyed,…

Talking (incessant!) religion

Posted onWednesday 31 July 2013Tuesday 30 July 2013

Well! I had an amusingly funny first happen to me the other day: I cheerfully out-talked a Jehovah’s Witness! ;) I was at a small local Le Boulanger to eat lunch and read one of my textbooks in a nice, relaxed atmosphere — one with no tempting internet to distract me! :) While there I…

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Beef, broccoli, beer, & burgers

Posted onTuesday 30 July 2013Tuesday 30 July 2013

Today I’ll share a small batch of recipes, I think — but first a quick note: I really like the Zatarain’s Creole food! It’s surprisingly tasty to me, and the boxes make it easy to make. So far I’ve tried the Red Beans & Rice and the Dirty Rice Mix (to both of which I…

Wangari Maathai & Replenishing the Earth

Posted onMonday 29 July 2013Sunday 28 July 2013

In 2010 Wangari Maathai wrote Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World. Not only is this book more recent than her 2003 volume regarding the Green Belt Movement, but in this one she also specifically addresses her thoughts on spirituality within the Movement. She lists the four core values of the…

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Triple word score! ;)

Posted onThursday 25 July 2013

Of necessity during my doctoral studies, I’ve learned to be glib with conceptually complex, multi-syllabic terms. It is a personal quirk, however, that I only use such terms when I am quite sure of what they mean — especially since I’ve been on the receiving end of supposedly academic conversations where I was highly dubious…

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Expected birthday deliciousness ;)

Posted onThursday 11 July 2013Wednesday 10 July 2013

So as I mentioned yesterday, the birthday dinner included homemade Italian cream sodas, and I promised to share the recipe today, with my notes below it. I’m also very pleased that I remembered to catch the recipe’s URL too this time! Here it is, and check out her lovely photos too: Italian Cream Sodas Holiday…

Unexpected birthday deliciousness!

Posted onWednesday 10 July 2013Tuesday 9 July 2013

So it was a dear friend’s birthday over the weekend, and I wanted to try making something tasty just for him at this week’s Monday Night Gaming Horde (hereafter known as the infelicitous sounding MNGH). He’d let drop — after much prompting — that he kinda liked pierogies? So I went and looked them up….

Cooking update: stroganoff, Cajun, casserole, & 4th of July — yum! ;)

Posted onFriday 5 July 2013Wednesday 3 July 2013

I have found a wonderful new/old cookbook! I think it was originally written in 1960 or so. The author, Peg Bracken, got sick of all the recipe books written by male chefs which deliriously caroled in incessant glee about how much fun it was for women to slave over a hot oven all day —…

Societies without God: immoral hell or egalitarian health? pt. 5

Posted onThursday 4 July 2013Wednesday 3 July 2013

So, a quick concluding bit, since I wrote part 4 yesterday while struggling with my brain overheating, in the last hour before the blog was supposed to update — and I’m not sure I was as clear as I could have been… and also because this is the 4th of July, and I feel the…

Societies without God: immoral hell or egalitarian health? pt. 4

Posted onWednesday 3 July 2013Thursday 4 July 2013

Okay, so now we know who doesn’t fit into Scandinavian society: those (usually) men who are heavily invested in patriarchal hierarchies. However, we also know similar types of men did very poorly when Eastern Europe broke away from the Communist bloc — yet Europe as a whole is certainly not dispensing with patriarchy. So obviously…