Share Your Leftovers
Thursday, April 30th, 2009 Posted in Society | 1 Comment »Musician, blogger and Compassion advocate Shaun Groves is in India right on another Compassion bloggers tour. These are pretty incredible trips (they did Uganda last year and the Dominican Republic last fall) and admittedly hard to read. This morning I checked ...
You Can Change the World: With a Tomato
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Adoption | 2 Comments »Twin Citizens can head to Bachman's this weekend to support Children's Home Society & Family Services (our adoption agency). For $5 you can get all the fixings to pot a tomato plant right in the store (fun for the kids!) ...
You Can Change the World: Vote for Homeless
Monday, April 27th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »I've talked about the site invisiblepeople.tv before and the incredible work being done there. Mark is the man behind the site, formerly homeless himself, unemployed and on the verge of being homeless again. He's been holding on for quite a ...
What’s the Ideal Population of Humanity?
Sunday, April 26th, 2009 Posted in Science | No Comments »OK, so bizarre ethical/sci-fi/theological question based on yesterday's post about carrying capacity of a planet: What's the ideal number of people to have? From an ethical perspective, the ideal number would seem to be as many as we can reasonably support. ...
5.4 Acres Per Person
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Posted in Society | No Comments »So I've been thinking about the whole 5.4 acres per person thing (and not 72 square feet). Strangely enough, I find population density fascinating. Now that we've done the math right, I wonder what that means. Is 5.4 acres enough ...
Surviving the First Week
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 Posted in Children | No Comments »Abby went back to work on Monday and we've now survived our first week back to "normal." In some ways it was great. I actually managed to accomplish some things. I kept up with the minimal amount of work I have ...
72 Square Feet Per Person
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 Posted in Society | 8 Comments »Redacted: This post is withdrawn because I can't do math. It's not 72 square feet per person, it's more like 236,806 square feet per person. Doh! I made a silly conversion error, effectively assuming 1 square yard would equal three ...
Environmentalism and My Soul
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Posted in Society | 2 Comments »In his April 18 column in the New York Times, "It's 2009, Do You Know Where Your Soul Is?", Bono talked about Easter and where our values are in these difficult economic times. This section seemed poignant to me on ...
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Posted in Family, History | 2 Comments »Yesterday was Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance for the Holocaust of World War II. It's a day I knew nothing about until a friend's Twitter post and my sister-in-law's blog entry. It's a somber day in Israel and a ...
Back to “Normal”
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Daily Grind, Family | No Comments »Tomorrow Abby heads back to work and I get to tackle a 3-year-old and a 6-month-old on my own. It's a return to normal, if you can call that normal. I'm not really ready for being double-teamed, but I guess ...
