this was just shared with me today: my sister’s mother-in-law wishes everyone happy birthday for everyone’s birthday. This may either be a Dutch tradition, an Indonesian tradition, a Dutch-Indonesian tradition, or just the mother-in-law in question. So she calls my sister on her husband’s birthday and says “Happy your husband’s birthday!” I think this is [...]

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One of my sisters & I have discussed the fact & agreed that we are, in fact, of different generations, even if she only has 10 years on me. The Brazen Careerist has come up with an amusing test for identifying cultural generation based upon (perhaps biased) current-culture abilities and knowledge-sets (copied whole-sale from the [...]

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Tagged by Miko: Eight things about me (each should be more revealing than the previous): I’ve ‘run’ two marathons. I’ve been fighting writer’s block at the ol’ MoF for the past couple of weeks. But I’ve started writing fiction again, so maybe I have limited daily allotment of creative writing energy. I once set a [...]

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sounds like something you do to an old freight car stuck in an alley. Elise tagged me and so I shall respond. Rules & 8 things about me below the fold…but I’m not sure I can come up with 8 people who have blogs and that I could tag (like, I could tag dooce, but [...]

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I’m getting cheerful correspondence from local LDS leadership again: My attention was recently called [to] the 5/26/07 posting on your website. I was frankly surprised at the obvious lack of sensitivity for the beliefs of your present and former friends and associates in the Church. Such is not only disrespectful, but is a direct perversion [...]

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I’m sure this has been done elsewhere, but like peanut butter and chocolate, the lolCats meme and religion are two great tastes that taste great together. Each of these uses one or more lolCats conventions. If you don’t get it, you might have to spend a few hours researching, as I did in preparation for [...]

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Elaine Frei responded to the five questions interview meme. Once again, I’m amazed at the caliber of people that choose to hang around here at Mind on Fire. I knew that Elaine was smart and passionate, but I didn’t realize just how wide-ranging her interests were. If you enjoy her guest posts and comments, I [...]

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Jeff and nee responded to the five questions interview meme (also see my answers and Miko’s).¬† I’m not a meme-guy, but I like this one because each isntance of the meme is completely different from its predecessors and siblings, and it has the potential for great fun and intimacy.¬† Jeff’s responses demonstrate a deep love [...]

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This is a clever meme in which you ask to be interviewed by someone who is responding to someone else’s questions. I did it twice, once with Bored in Vernal, because I wanted to learn more about her, and once with PilgrimGirl, because I wanted to learn more about her (you can never learn enough [...]

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Bored in Vernal tagged me as a Thinking Blogger. This is quite an honor, coming from her! It’s also a meme, so my duty is to name five other blogs that make me think. In order to avoid being too incestuous or repetitive, I decided not list any of the bloggers who are part of [...]

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