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From Home for Life: A last survey finding worth reflecting on: Fully 85 percent of the respondents agreed “somewhat” or “strongly” with the suggestion that “community is just as important as the home.” What exactly they meant by community is hard to say. Friends in the neighborhood perhaps? An interesting mix of neighbors? A vibrant [...]

When he met her it was as if he could see his poems moving around below her skin like fish in an aquarium. To attract them he tapped the glass of the tank – some were pretty big fish. They loomed close, shadowing her face like a birthmark. He saw their luminous scales, the frills [...]

A life in pictures. (via clusterflock)

I started reading this article, California v Texas: America’s future | The Economist, because the title caught my eye. We have plenty of CA v. TX in our house.  SpawnMama was born in Houston and has plenty of family in Austin.  We both love the time we’ve spent in Texas. I even like the sense of [...]

Like millions of people, I’m trying to figure out how to grab this moment in history. To cement it in my mind. And to articulate, however imperfectly, why I am so moved by it.  I haven’t figure it out yet. I haven’t even gotten close.  So now, I have just two things: I am torn [...]

I’ve been hit by Alexandra Samuel. Rather than using a social media service that’s new to her, I figure I’d put this on a blog that’s probably new to her. First, here are the rules for the game: Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post. Share seven facts about yourself [...]

They also said plenty about the tenacious, strong-willed woman who will play a key role in shaping Obama’s plans to restore credibility and morale to U.S. intelligence operations — presuming she doesn’t run for governor of California instead, as many Democrats in her home state hope she will. “I have reached a stage in my [...]

Analogy means: one is like unto another. That’s what our kids will be puzzling out the logical reasoning part of their college entrance exams: if A is to B in this way, then C is to D in that way. But it does not mean one is equivalent to another. So while I genuinely believe [...]

He calls his enterprise, MyFarm, a “decentralized urban farm.” His aim is to turn San Francisco’s under-used, overgrown backyards into verdant plots of green that will provide organically grown food for the city’s residents. Since May, Paque, 29, has planted half an acre of vegetables if you add up all 55 gardens that his farmers [...]