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It's that time of year again--summer camp season. UCARE will once more be sponsoring a summer camp for orphans in Ukraine. As always, we...

So apparently I forgot to e-mail out my annual letter this year. I guess better late than never…… I've been running late on everything ...

To all who celebrate today: Merry Christmas! To everyone: a few pretty snowflake eggs to enjoy My holiday letter……..to follow. It...

………and/or your winter holiday of choice. And a very happy New Year. These are most of the snowflake pysanky I wrote this year. Luba

Happy Easter! Христос Воскрес! My 2015 pysanky. Three of the pysanky are my own designs (the brown ones); the rest are traditional designs, ...

Happy Santa Christmas to all my western-rite friends!  And Happy (choose one or more) Solstice/Festivus/Hannukah/Holiday/Diwali/Saturnalia/N...

Happy Thanksgiving!

I got this in the mail yesterday, and smelled a scam. I've recently ordered a lot of books on line, but knew they would be coming to me ...

My tree made it into this year's Detroit Free Press, the Christmas Day edition. You can read the article (and see more photos) at this...

Christmas guitar music from Magnatune, lovely in its simplicity: Christmas Guitar by Jeff Wahl

The comments on this blog are moderated, which means all your efforts are wasted.  Your ads for Russian software and penis enhancers will ne...

It's been a buy few days, as I've been decorating the tree and getting ready for my party (this Saturday, all welcome). I finished ...

..........the tree. The last of the tinsel has been placed and ribbon birds placed. I will add details later. (Photo above is last year...

As I've gotten older and lazier, I've whittled down my Christmas shopping list radically. I buy gifts only for close/nuclear family...

Today was the day I had designated for hanging lights on the tree. I got up incredibly early--well, early for me on a weekend--and got goin...

Getting ready for Christmas is a job of epic proportions in my household. I've gotten the outside stuff done bef ore the before the sn...

A genuine all-American red state Christmas song.........

Maha of the Mahablog has a very good discussion of climate change deniers and why they are in denial. Have a look.

A constant in movies about WWII was war bonds--buying them was patriotic, and rallies were often headlined by Hollywood stars. Senator Ben...

We've had a lovely fall this year, with fairly warm temperatures and minimal precipitation. I was able to get all of my outdoor decorat...

Either Blogger has gotten lax, or the spammers have gotten trickier. I've gotten several spam comments the last few days for old posts ...

....that's what coming back to this blog after all this time feels like. When I first began it, I had such high hopes. All incipient bl...

Oddly enough, I suspect many right wingnuts really do believe much of this....including the McCain part. And I find it just a bit disconcer...

Well, maybe after the "Daisy" ad in 1964: And Gravel's other ad:

In birding, we sometimes describe cormorants as looking like "flying penguins." I guess we'll have to find a new descriptor a...

Pointillism is a style of painting in which small distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary a...

(Click on cartoon to enlarge.) ....but then again, too few to really mention. Apparently, Being a NeoCon means never having to say you'r...

The odometer of death took another major turn today, as the US recorded the 4000th fatality in Iraq. 4000. Remember "they will greet us...

....and may all your Easters be white! Some holiday confusion here in Michigan, as there is quite a bit of snow on the ground at the moment–...

Today is the day a huge rabbit brings chocolate eggs to children in countries with germanic heritage. Why? Remnants of ancient fertility ...

I will never be able to look at peeps the same way now......

A lovely song about the tragedy of Ukraine under Soviet domination - the many dead, both famous and not.

It seems just yesterday I was writing the Thanksgiving post, and now it's February and Punxsutawney Phil has predicted six more weeks o...

Today is the day that we Americans celebrate the beginning of the long genocide of our original native population. We also give thanks to ...

According the folks at the Dove Dental Center (from whose site I cribbed this text): A dental abscess can cause pain in the face (usually fr...

Armistice Day was meant to commemorate the end of WWI, the war to end all wars. (That didn't work out, did it?) The war officially end...

I'm back...almost.  It's November, gray, cloudy and cold, and I'm working away at the dining room table.  I'm trying to fini...

After splashing out on really good candy (Reese's cups, Kit-Kats, Almond Joy and Gummi body parts), I was disappointed to have only THRE...

Click on map to enlarge I'm off for a five week stay in Ukraine. I'm going to be busy–I have family to visit, and lots of work to d...

Inaction has its consequences. From Attytood : WASHINGTON -- President Bush yesterday proposed deep cuts to federal health care, educati...

A recent world-wide survey has come up with a list of the NEW Seven Wonders of the World. The old list of wonders was centered around the ea...