An excerpt from the life of Kairan:

 

My mom and I are watching The Weather Channel in our condo on the east cost of Florida.  We want to see how nasty things will get for us with Hurricane Irene.  It turns out she's forecast to pass by us two-hundred miles out to sea, throwing 50 to 70 mph winds our way. 

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Robert wrote this in chat this morning, and in the context, I know he was trying to encourage Heather as she headed out to an interview today. As I thought about it, I wondered if we really think about the things we say out of habit or out of a thoughtlessness borne out of tradition or good gestures, such as saying "bless you" when someone sneezes.

We say things like that without understanding the meaning or the origins of it and it seems an acceptable way to communicate our well…

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My creationist stepfather has come to visit for a couple weeks. I love the guy, but his religious stance is as bothersome as they come. We had a small argument about religion and science. He went on to spit all of the usual (and ignorant) creationist views at me. Each point was easily refuted, but of course he would shake off my rebuttal with "it is gods will; you can not understand gods will". As well as my arguments on morals in which he would insist "any choice god makes is perfect,"… Continue