What would you say in a commencement speech?
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Astronauts really are rock stars
Alexandria loves its parades. Mostly, I think, because Alexandria loves bagpipes and kilts. This weekend’s excuse was the upcoming St Patrick’s day holiday. bagpipes on parade David-Apollo The gallery where the David-Apollo is being displayed is small, appropriate for the diminutive piece. The museum visitors, a small crowd of retirees, are all pressed closely around the ropes, murmuring to one another about the details of the work, an unfinished statue by Michelangelo. It is mid-morning on a Friday and I [...] I try to be a crusty cynic but my reading habits give me away, at least to myself. I rarely like romantic movies or romance novels but I always read the Washington Post On Love column and the NYTimes Vows and Modern Love columns. Real life love stories are so much more charming than the [...] A dose of poetry for your Monday: http://tmblr.co/Z37ZbyJlzfQ6 …if you haven’t already…worth seeing again if you have academy award winning short http://morrislessmore.com/
This one I share without description – just a warning that it might mesmerize you. http://images.4channel.org/f/src/589217_scale_of_universe_enhanced.swf
Well written. Some of it reflects my own reality, some of it makes me sad. Some of it reflects my reality and makes me sad. But it’s definitely worth reading.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/some-people-never-find-the-love-of-their-lives-and-live-to-tell-about-it/2012/01/13/gIQAB0S43Q_story.html
This blog is not about my faith per se, though since it’s about my personal journey my faith often comes up. And I don’t really want to spend any time talking about the so-called Mormon Moment. Because I kind of hate the Mormon Moment (with of course the exception of whatever advantage it offers talented [...] |
 
Becky's bookshelf: read
I was in a bookstore the other day hunting for something to read on writing when I got distracted by the books on reading. I picked this one up, knowing nothing about Nick Hornby beyond his connection to About a Boy. My impressions in no...
I grew up loving to read and hope to pass that on so every year I get books for my nieces and nephews for Christmas. There are twenty of them and as they're getting older I can no longer give only books I've read so each year there are o...
 
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