We’ve got snow-related pictures up on our ‘family’ website: http://www.pitchwife.net/component/option,com_morfeoshow/Itemid,59/
Warning: cute puppy playing alert.
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SNOW!!! (pictures)
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Category Archives: Mundania
Recipes: Two Pies and ‘Bar Food’
For Turkey Day this year I provided three dishes: my traditional apple and pumpkin pies and the newcomer, pickled beets and eggs.
Homemade Gifts: Pumpkin Butter
I enjoy making and giving (the giving more than the making, truth be told) homemade gifts every year. For one thing, it allows me to sidestep the consumeristic merry go round of the holiday season, for another, it allows me to give soemthing special to people I might normally be unable to express my appreciation for (like, my boss).
Seattle + Snow = Silly
This video says it all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGnOHg8KU_I
Its not that bad — yet, but it may get to the point where I’m recommending that we close the office. safety first — especially when there are drivers like the above out there!!!
Meme: Dayjob
From The Wordsmith’s Forge:
Describe a typical day at work, for you. Where do you go, whom do you meet, and what do you do?
Each day is different from the previous one, but there are some commonalities.
Give the EFF some love!
If you know me, you know I’m very interested in the legal issues that arise from how new technologies and intellectual capital interesect. That means that I support the EFF.
Due to the tough economic times we are all experiencing (and maybe folks with spare cash to spend on activism feeling tapped out after the election), EFF is not getting the usual end-of-the-tax-year donation love. So they are all reaching out to friends, family and countrypersons to ask them to consider becoming EFF members this year.
I hope you know the kind of work EFF does to protect civil liberties online–such as defending fair use so people can share their home videos and make fun of deserving corporations large and small, taking on the telecoms and the NSA for spying on American citizens without a warrant, fighting to protect civil liberties on the international front, and speaking out (via blog post, press interviews, and speeches around the U.S. and the world) about threats to online civil liberties. This is very important work is and there are very few people/organizations do it as effectively as the EFF. They also have great T-shirts. 🙂
So I’m asking: if you aren’t already a member, and you do indeed support EFF’s work (or just want a new t-shirt), please consider joining this year. If you are a member, make an extra donation — anything helps.
Also, please use this link: http://secure.eff.org/friendsandfamily. The membership will be a little discounted and you can specify that you are a friend/family member of my sister, Corynne McSherry — Staff Attorney. (Don’t worry, she won’t find out if/how much you donated unless you tell her).
NeoPagans and Marriage
I’m interested in writing an essay about NeoPagans and their view of marriage and I need your help. I’m looking for anecdotes and experiences from people who are married, handfasted (or the equivalent of ‘joined but not according to the State’), and/or performed such ceremonies.
- Did you get legally joined as well as go through the religious ceremony?
- What genders are you and your spouse?
- Why marriage/handfasting/joining?
Please feel free to tell me more, but the above are the key points I’m looking at for now. I am perfectly prepared to keep everything shared with me strictly anonymous and confidential; if you are comfortable with me using you/your story as an example please let me know that (otherwise, stories will be altered to make a point and not break confidentiality). Responses via the ‘comments’ feature on this blog are great, or you can write to me directly at lisa*@*cybercoven.org (remove the spambot-foiling *)
Share this message far and wide — I want to hear from as diverse a group of NeoPagans as possible.
Weekly Silliness: Life Experience
The Life Experience Test
Overall, you have partaken in 108 out of 174 possible life experiences.
Your average life experience score is therefore 62%.
The average score is 51%, making your experiences more than 80% of the people who have taken this test.
The average for your age group (36-55) is 56%.
Broken down by category:
Art: 6/17 (35%)
Career & Work: 10/13 (77%)
Civics & Technology: 2/7 (29%)
Crime & Disarray: 5/11 (45%)
Education: 10/18 (56%)
Fashion: 12/15 (80%)
Fitness, Health and Sports: 4/7 (57%)
Life in General: 8/14 (57%)
Relationships: 11/14 (79%)
Religion & Politics: 1/4 (25%)
Social: 18/22 (82%)
Travel: 10/20 (50%)
Vices: 11/12 (92%)
Take the test and see how YOU compare
Interesting. There are some questions that were a bit leading, and its not nearly as detailed as it could be. but this is an interesting survey.
Weekly Silliness: My Intelligence Type
Your result for Howard Gardner’s Eight Types of Intelligence Test: Linguistic
31% Logical, 25% Spatial, 51% Linguistic, 27% Intrapersonal, 16% Interpersonal, 25% Musical, 18% Bodily-Kinesthetic and 45% Naturalistic!
“Verbal-linguistic intelligence has to do with words, spoken or written. People with verbal-linguistic intelligence display a facility with words and languages. They are typically good at reading, writing, telling stories and memorizing words and dates. They tend to learn best by reading, taking notes, listening to lectures, and via discussion and debate. They are also frequently skilled at explaining, teaching and oration or persuasive speaking. Those with verbal-linguistic intelligence learn foreign languages very easily as they have high verbal memory and recall, and an ability to understand and manipulate syntax and structure.
Careers which suit those with this intelligence include writers, lawyers, philosophers, journalists, politicians and teachers.” (Wikipedia)
I’m including the info for Naturalistic as well, since that is so (relatively) close to my linguistic score.
“This area has to do with nature, nurturing and relating information to one’s natural surroundings. This is the eighth and newest of the intelligences, added to the theory in 1999. This type of intelligence was not part of Gardner’s original theory of Multiple Intelligences. Those with it are said to have greater sensitivity to nature and their place within it, the ability to nurture and grow things, and greater ease in caring for, taming and interacting with animals. They may also be able to discern changes in weather or similar fluctuations in their natural surroundings. They are also good at recognizing and classifying different species. “Naturalists” learn best when the subject involves collecting and analyzing, or is closely related to something prominent in nature; they also don’t enjoy learning unfamiliar or seemingly useless subjects with little or no connections to nature. It is advised that naturalistic learners would learn more through being outside or in a kinesthetic way.
The theory behind this intelligence is often criticized, much like the spiritual or existential intelligence (see below), as it is seen by many as not indicative of an intelligence but rather an interest. However it might have been a more valuable and useful intelligence in prehistoric times when humans lived closer to nature.
Careers which suit those with this intelligence include scientists, naturalists, conservationists, gardeners and farmers.” (Wikipedia)
Heaven in a Bowl: Lisa’s Winter Stew
A few weeks ago, I’d asked J. to pick up a mix of root veggies so we could have them with various upcoming meals. He got a couple of sweet potatoes, garnet yams, russet potatoes, yukon golds (about 1 lb) and a couple of butternut squash. The law of cooking being what it is in my household, we ate one butternut and just haven’t gotten to the rest.
(Yeah, I know “just haven’t gotten to it” is a very lame excuse. It’s only redeeming value is that it is also true.)