One more sleep until the surprise birthday for my dad. I just got off the phone from my brother and found out that he has the same winter storm warnings as we have here in the Prairies -- snow and blowing snow, temperatures dipping to below minus forty-five Celcius, with the windchill factor ... But it will not put a damper on the party spirit. My only hope is that my brother's plane is on schedule, or as close to it as humanly possible. We are in ...
Of course we all know of Santa Clause, though many different myths and tales associating around the figure, but I want to talk about a all together different figure whom many probably have not heard of that serves much the same purpose as Jolly old St. Nick. I am speaking of La Befana, which translates to The White Witch, so who is La Befana? She is a figure from Italian culture, and she very much does embody the rather common and typical imagery of a witch. She is an old hag like ...
I've been away on a existential hiatus. As for being a apart of this website I have decided to create my own website as most of the literature I'm interested is philosophical. http://philosophy-opinions.alldiscussion.net/forum.htm My new username is: The Fool I consider this blog free advertisement. If you love philosophy as much as I do please join my site.
It could get up to 60 degrees tomorrow. I’m excited about the nice weather. We are having a cookie day where I worship and the kids will be able to play before and after they decorate cookies. Sunday night we expect a blizzard. I don’t know if the kids will be able to go to school before Thursday. Friday is their last day before the holiday break. I’m worried about the weather because we have to take Mason for a test on Monday. He’s having an echocardiogram in a town about ...
[My First Reasonable Result of a Sun Dog in My Area!] This particular Blog Entry's photos are like gifts to me, as I always depend on other people's rendition of the Sun Dog and Sun Pillar phenomena -- you see, whenever such spendid sights appear, I don't have a camera handy, or my shots are lousy, or whatever. BUT: this past weekend, I was rather pleased to get the following ...