mikkie on May 22nd, 2009

My aunts (my mother’s sisters) are an odd pair — one of them claims never to talk to the other one, and in the next sentence she’ll refer to a conversation they had recently. The same one says her sister never comes to visit, and then relates something her sister said the last time she [...]

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mikkie on May 8th, 2009

I was raised in the Southern Baptist church from about the age of five until my early teenage years. My parents didn’t attend church, ostensibly because my mother was raised Baptist and my father was raised Methodist (his father was a preacher), and each refused to attend the other’s church. Who would have thought this [...]

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mikkie on May 4th, 2009

Well, it appears that the latest hyper-reaction to current events is quieting down somewhat, and it looks like we just might survive another onslaught of deadly disease that was supposed to wipe out a significant percentage of the population.
I think the press and television media are as responsible for the swine flu panic as anyone [...]

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