27 May 2009
24 May 2009
New Blogs
I haven't been posting much the past year. Life always moves and everything changes, I mostly write on my Facebook page now, keeping up with family and friends I know in person. But I plan to leave this blog up for all the earlier posts that are still being read and enjoyed. When I first started blogging, it was just a late night way for me to de-stress and think through thoughts, a way to find humor in things that happen. I never thought the things I wrote would be read by so many, and even eventually shared on an FM radio show, lol.
I'm still blogging, however! You can keep up with me at my two new blogs:
Coupon Chickies http://couponchickies.blogspot.com
A blog shared by some friends and I, sharing great, free, and easy ways to save thousands of dollars a year on groceries during this recession and economy.
Amatulla http://amatulla.blogspot.com
Faith, peace, and comfort I find in introspection, study, and community.
The Domestic Wife http://thedomesticwife.blogspot.com
My humor and satire at perspectives of womanhood of past and present.
16 April 2009
30 March 2009
This could be my mother...
Ok, a year and a half ago I blogged about my mom, "the Squirrel Lady".
http://findingsalihah.blogspot.com/2007/07/squirrel-lady.html
It appears there is a version of my mother in the UK, lol, except this lady isn't so fond of the little gray rats...
"...'I thought it was lovely, I called one of them Hazel but then the next thing they'd got into the house,' she said. 'Up close they are quite frightening - they look like puppy dogs with big hands, they growl and bark at you'..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7963370.stm
29 March 2009
Props for Poole
Reading Time magazine this afternoon, I came across this letter to the editor, by Lee Poole of Phoenix, Arizona...
"Former history professor, Newt Gingerich, misstates some facts about the twentieth century. The Great Depression did not give rise to Nazism or Japanese militarism. It was World War I and its aftermath that set the stage for both Mussolini's march on Rome and Hitler's attempted putsch in Munich. By the time of the Depression, in 1929, the facists had been in power for years, and the Nazis had been growing in strength for almost a decade.
Furthermore, Gingerich's description of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff seems to imply it was part of F.D.R's New Deal. Smoot and Hawley were Republicans, and the act that bares their names was passed in 1930, during the Hoover Administration. If Gingerich can't get his facts straight about the last century, why should we listen to his suggestions for this one?"
Lee Poole, you rock.
25 March 2009
I always knew my toddlers were cavemen!!
"...claims that tantrums are an expected product of human development. He sees our little darlings as less-evolved savages driven by instinct and emotion ... it's our job as parents to civilize them into Homo sapiens. ... a parent should reach way back to our ancient ancestors and think like a Neanderthal...Apparently nothing infuriates these little Neaderthals more than Homo Sapien logic..."
16 March 2009
13 March 2009
1920's Film - Palestinian Dress Demonstration
I believe this footage was taken by a UK film crew. It is dated 1920's Palestine. A smiling village girl gives a demonstration of how to put on a traditional village garb.
11 March 2009
Sex smell lures 'vampire' to doom...
Will wonders never cease?
"A synthetic "chemical sex smell" could help rid North America's Great Lakes of a devastating pest, scientists say..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7838850.stm
It's raining sandboxes!
RIYADH..."Residents of Saudi Arabia's capital are cleaning up after a huge sandstorm blanketed the city with a thick layer of yellow dust.
Cars and houses are covered by sand after the Tuesday storm forced the closure of the international airport and shut down schools."
When I lived in Phoenix, Arizona, these were common. Being from Minnesota, it was like seeing something from another world...
10 March 2009
Mercy: New leg for mine blast elephant...and...
New leg for mine blast elephant http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7934419.stm
Ok, and this one...um, yikes...
Elephant cured of drug addiction
Ok, and this one...um, yikes...
Elephant cured of drug addiction
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7597835.stm
04 March 2009
Sight to the Blind...
A 'bionic eye' may hold the key to returning sight to people left blind by a hereditary disease, experts believe.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7359282.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4411591.stm
11 February 2009
Oldest Human Hair Found In Fossilized Hyena Dung
"Scanning electron micrographs of five fossilized human hairs is shown. The hairs were recovered from a 200,000-year-old clump of hyena dung found in Gladysvale cave, South Africa."
Um, ok. ancient poop covered hair, exciting. Did the hyena eat this person or did the dude (couldn't have been a woman) have their head up a hyena's a$& or what? I think that story and pics would be worth the read.
10 February 2009
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