When I first saw “Bowling for Columbine” it really resonated with me. It said a lot of things….while I didn’t agree with all of them, the underlying message of the movie (my takeaway, at least) was “don’t live in fear”. The movie was able to encapsulate and communicate some things that had been bothering [Continue]

As you can see from my profile picture to the right, a couple years of unemployment (read: no dental insurance) has left me with what my friends might refer to as a “jacked up grill”. So, as a public service to our readers, and those that get close enough to smell my doggy breath, I decided [Continue]

ok, so it wasn’t really the states….but it may as well have been. we’ve been looking for a yoga mat for golden lotus, and although we see yoga studios, our lack of local knowledge and a yellow pages has us looking everywhere for a yoga mat sold seperately so GL can do yoga at the house. i’d [Continue]

I tried to get a good pic or two of the lightening/thunder and downpour, but I didn’t want to go out in it to get it! I wasn’t *that* committed. So, I pulled these shots out of the “archives” — some pics of days with better weather here. The first, is a large park [Continue]

So far I’ve been pretty complementary regarding my Montevideo/South American experience. In fact, something triggered in me this weekend and I’m starting to feel like this place is my “home” — maybe it was the awesome weather. Don’t be too envious, the skies opened up this afternoon and soaked GL during her [Continue]

Let’s face it. Dire prognostications seldom play out the way the pessimists predict. Why? I theorize that as events unfold behaviours change and people adjust to the “new current” reality in ways that are nearly impossible to predict before the events unfold. Recently, a perception that the world is entering (or soon will) enter [Continue]