When I was reading the article for the post below I found this one written by an anti-Harry Potter Christian. This is what struck me first: When I was a witch, I performed rituals. I evoked spirits. I called entities. I cast spells, burned candles, concocted brews. The only thing I didn’t do was fly [...]
The Church of England decided that their homosexual clergy can marry as long as they promise to remain celebate. I heard that on the radio yesterday and my only reaction was, “Huh?” Here’s sections of an article I found interesting. The senior bishops of the Church of England, led by Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of [...]
I was watching a program this morning called “20 Years Old In the Middle East” on Link TV. They interviewed the mother of one of the 20 year olds. She was upset because her daughter didn’t wear a veil. She said she was worried about people’s perception of her daughter. She said that if she [...]
Blogathon 2005 is on August 6. During the blogathon people pledge to blog every 30 minutes for 24 hours for a charity of their choice. Cootiehog will be updated every 30 minutes and the proceeds will go to Heifer International. Heifer is my favorite charity so I’m giving her a plug. Head over to the [...]
Here’s proof that my mind has been scattered. I didn’t mention this here. Friday I noticed that the evil mother-in-law was reading books. This is weird. Then I noticed that they were self-help books by Deepak Chopra. This irked me because all the self-help that woman needs is to get off her butt and get [...]
Less than a week away from the start of my competitive trail ride and I am a stark raving lunatic. I’m worried primarily about the trail being marked ok and people not getting lost. I can’t really concentrate on other issues very well. The husband has started talking very slowly and deliberately to me whenever [...]
My competitive trail ride is one week away. I am swamped with things to do. On Thursday I lost all of my volunteer safety riders. So I’ve been scrambling to fix that. Actually, at first I told everyone involved with the ride that if they didn’t find me some riders I was cancelling the whole [...]
I was scheduled to leave Minneapolis yesterday at 4:35 pm. I got on the airplane all nice and fine but it went downhill from there. It was storming in Chicago. I had to change planes in Chicago. Chicago wasn’t letting anyone fly into there though. So we sat on the tarmac until getting permission to [...]
I am a slacker! I blew off the meetings this morning because I was tired. It was also storming hugely at the time I would have needed to leave. Of course I could have used the enclosed skywalks to get around downtown and stayed perfectly dry but it gave me another reason to be glad [...]
I got hit on today. I was at the train station. This guy started talking to me as I was buying a ticket from the machine. Him: Hi. How are you? Me: Fine. Him: What are you up to today? Me: Getting on the train Him: Are you married? Me: Yes Him: Are you sure? [...]
I’ve crashed. My brain became completely and totally full by 2:30 today. I had to give up the conference for the day and go back to the hotel to let things drain out. But my brain was too full to relax. So, I found a library and came here to work on the computer. I’m [...]
Today I followed the greenway out through the first park I came to to the Minneapolis Sculpture garden. I tis a large park with lots of sculptures. The centerpiece is a huge fountain made up of a sppon with a cherry on top. I like art most that is bright and whimsical so this was [...]
I was in a police search! I was on the train this morning when the police stopped it. First the driver came through looking for something. Then 2 cops came on and searched. Then a metro transit cop joined them. Seems like a lot of effort for a Sunday morning on a two car train [...]
My hotel has a computer in the lobby so I’m able to post if I can find a time when it isn’t occupied. At first wordpress wouldn’t let me sign in so in the ultimate display of geekdom I started writing these posts out by hand. Hi. My name is Heather and I’m a blog [...]
How my day started: 3:35 Am- Husband crawls into bed after driving all night to get home from a business meeting in Atlanta. 3:45 AM – My alarm goes off. 4:10 AM – Wander out in pasture to get horses. Wake up Spirit. Stop briefly because the girls get tangled up. Wake up Spirit again [...]
I’m going on vacation! Well, it is a working vacation. I’m going to the American Veterinary Medical Convention in Minneapolis. I leave at an ungodly hour tomorrow morning. My flight out is at 6:30 AM. That means I have to leave the house by 4:30 AM. I’m trying to get absolutely everything done tonight so [...]
I decided that I needed more prizes for my trail ride so I hit ebay. There was only one problem. It seems that I’d been banned from ebay for not paying $1.99 sellers fee. But I did pay the fee and I could prove it so I tried out ebay’s online customer service. It was [...]
Jen, over at Life Begins at 30 has an interesting challenge. For the month of August commit to eat locally. Your level over committment is up to you. It could be for every meal, just dinners, once a week, or once during the month. The idea is to learn and appreciate what is available to [...]
This morning went I was leaving for my ride I asked the husband to listen for my car horn when I came home. I fully expected to not be able to move my sure-to-be-aching body out of the car and into the house. I asked him if I honked the horn could he please come [...]
Today I rode 10 miles. I did not do this on Prize. Nope, I borrowed a good trail horse so it was actually fun. I would have been a nervous wreck on Prize. But, the owner of this horse told me he was good and brave so I believed her. I can seriously psych myself [...]