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Agnostic Mom Worships A Sun God?

Posted: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 @ 3:41 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Health, Religion, Yoga | 12 Comments »

According to a new reader, Rob Smith, I do. When people don’t have good arguments they have to dig really deep to come up with something, even if it is ignorant and nonsensical. Here is an example:
Very interesting that although you claim to be agnostic you practice yoga. You would think that such [...]

Who’s Afraid Of Ghosts?

Posted: Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 @ 9:53 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Children, Health, Parenting | 18 Comments »

My latest article is up at the Humanist Network News. If you’re not already a regular reader, go check it out.
It’s been a horrendous week. How much more blunt can I get? And to end it, now that the trauma is subsiding, the kids started their fall break so I [...]

Thank You For All Your Comments!

Posted: Saturday, September 9th, 2006 @ 7:27 am in Health | 16 Comments »

They have been very helpful and uplifting (regarding Trinity). The advice was great and the encouraging words and shared experiences were. . . encouraging. To tell you the truth, I didn’t think many of my readers would be coming back with all the long spaces between my posts lately!
Although I dreamt Trinity had [...]

Trinity’s Health And Why I Haven’t Been Around

Posted: Friday, September 1st, 2006 @ 4:42 pm in Blog, Health | 22 Comments »

Trinity had a second seziure two weeks ago. Since my last posting about Trinity’s first seizure, she had an EEG, which turned out abnormal, meaning there was seizure activity in her brain. She had an MRI which, thankfully, was normal. Meaning there is no tumor or other cause. Also meaning that [...]

The Freedom To Change Your Mind

Posted: Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 @ 8:58 am in Belief, Community, Health, Pollution, Talk Radio | 5 Comments »

My husband read my previous post on bicycle-commuting yesterday and said that one of his co-workers had just told him that he and his girlfriend decided to bike to the movie theatre instead of drive.
Then this morning Israel said, “You know, someone was just telling me that in Portland the government put a bunch of [...]

Raising A New Kind Of Commuter

Posted: Monday, July 3rd, 2006 @ 9:21 am in Children, Community, Family, Health, Parenting, Pollution | 16 Comments »

I am training my children to become bicycle-commuters.
I envy Europeans in cities where walking is a life-style. I would love for my town to adopt biking as a major mode of transportation, the way Amsterdam has done.
Let me name a few benefits off the top of my head. . . better health, cleaner air, [...]

Making You Aware

Posted: Sunday, April 30th, 2006 @ 7:51 pm in Health | 8 Comments »

Parkinson’s Disease first introduced itself to me when I was in the Philippines. My companion and I paid a visit to a married couple from church. I remember walking into the tiny makeshift house, first meeting the healthy, approximately sixty-year-old wife, and then meeting Parkinson’s victim, the husband. His mouth gaped open, [...]

Criss-Cross Applesauce

Posted: Saturday, January 28th, 2006 @ 2:45 pm in Children, Health, Meditation | 5 Comments »

My children would rate “mediocre” on the hyper-active scale. They are not always calm and sedated, like the quiet children I admired in Kinko’s once. Those children sat underneath unused copy machines for 45 minutes poring over books. They were turtles, content under the cover of their shells. Meanwhile, my children [...]

My Healthy Sin

Posted: Sunday, January 8th, 2006 @ 9:04 pm in Agnostic, Atheist, Christmas, Food, Health, Talk Radio | 11 Comments »

Religious conservative talk show host, Dennis Prager, likes to level a specific charge against us godless secularists. And I am going to confess before you all that, at least in my case, it is true.
The charge: because of a lack of religion, which would otherwise instill higher values in me, Physical [...]