And, on cue, TX Gov. Greg Abbott announced he is investigating our school district because the school police officer walked with my kid & her peers the 1.3 miles from the school to the Capitol to ensure they were safe while exercising their constitutional rights. 🙃
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vanessa has a job!
I’ve been holding back on posting about this, but I just can’t anymore. On Friday, Vanessa received a call from Meals on Wheels and More of Austin offering her a job! She formally accepted the offer today and so now everything is official. She has an apartment, a roommate, a job, a boyfriend. What else…
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pope benedict modifed rules for electing a pope
Today, Pope Benedict XVI issued a Motu Proprio, or a declaration of his own initiative, declaring that the Catholic Church will return to the traditional norms for electing a Pope. Pope John Paul II previously declared that, instead of a 2/3rd majority to elect a Pope, that only an absolute majority was needed after a…
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opt-out of those annoying credit card offers
Are you annoyed at the endlesss “pre-approved” credit card offers that flood your mailbox? I am. For awhile, I was writing “remove from list” and sending the application back to them in their postage-paid envelopes, but that was still leading to a ton of paper waste, extra mail through the USPS and my time. I…
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mt 4
I’m installing a beta version of the CMS that I use for this site. Expect some interesting activity. Update: I fixed the issues that prevented me from posting new entries. I’m running into problems with a subroutine in the template.pm file. At this point, it is preventing me from editing a couple of template entries…
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silent retreat, part ii
This is the second in a multi-part series sharing some aspects of a retreat I made last weekend. I am a child of the information age. I can hardly remember a time without having a computer at home. I’ve had a website since 1996 (wow, eleven years!) and now, working primarily with university students, I’m…
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silent retreat, part i
Over the next few days, I hope to share some aspects of a retreat I made last weekend. This first part looks at my decision to attend the retreat. For some time now, I’ve been thinking to myself, “Self—you need to go on a retreat. You need to do something for your spiritual life.” This…