• Carnival of Family Life

    Karen is our host for the week of May 12, 2008 at Write from Karen and there are more than 80 wonderful family-related articles included in this edition! Don't miss it! Click here to submit your entry for next week's Carnival by Saturday, May 17, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. Pacific time. On Monday, May 19, 2008, the Carnival will stop at ice cream is not for breakfast. May 26, 2008 will mark the very special Memorial Day Edition so plan now to submit your special Memorial Day-themed articles. Would you like to host a future edition of the Carnival? Review the schedule here and Contact JHS!

Connected Lives (Part Five)
In a recent meeting with my colleagues, we all sat around a conference table, our identical Blackberries in front of us. As one by one the Blackberries chirped, clicked, chimed, and buzzed, we found ourselves laughing at we looked at each other and then down at our individual devices, simultaneously declaring, [...]

Friday’s Feast #188
Appetizer
Name something you would categorize as weird.
Peanut butter and tuna sandwiches. My oldest son used to eat them every day. In fact, for awhile, I had to make them and pack them in his lunch. Thank God he outgrew that phase!

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Connected Lives (Part Four)
Here in California, it is unusually cold for late April, but that was fine with me. I settled in last evening, wrapped in my favorite blanket, to watch the seventh and final installment of HBO’s spectacular adaptation of David McCullough’s biography of John Adams. As with the prior episodes, I [...]

Political Legacy

Tonight’s television viewing: The conclusion of John Adams on HBO. I could not resist sharing the irony I found in the final moments of that seven-part mini-series . . . and the trailer that immediately followed it:

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Connected Lives (Part Three)
This past week, I was contacted by a reporter from the Stockton Record. She interviewed me for an upcoming story about women here in California’s Central Valley who blog. She has also spoken with women in nearby Modesto and Stockton.
Among the questions she asked me: “How did you get [...]

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