I Want To Be A Coffee Bean

March 17, 2010

At the Texas Storytelling Festival this last weekend, many fine tales were told. One in particular was told by my friend Elida Bonet, a marvelous storyteller who grew up in Panama, at the Sacred Tales concert. She said the story had come to her in one of those forwarded “inspirational e-mails” she gets [...]

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The Consensus on The Census

March 16, 2010

“In 1790, it cost 1¢ per person to take the U.S. Census. In 1990, it was $10.45 per person.” This is information I gleaned from Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, which is on my “library” shelf in the bathroom. That tidbit may be as worthless as the toilet tissue I use as a [...]

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My Expensive Dish Drying Rack

March 15, 2010

I have a VERY expensive dish rack — my dishwasher! Yeah, yeah. I know all the arguments for using the dishwasher instead of hand washing dishes. Researchers argue that it doesn’t save anything to hand wash instead of use the dishwasher in a typical family. According to the Bonn Institute [...]

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