Authentic Threads » aside links http://authenticthreads.org/blog Every heart, every heart to love will come, but like a refugee. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:11:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 en Dog protected abandoned newborn http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/08/25/dog-protected-abandoned-newborn/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/08/25/dog-protected-abandoned-newborn/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:00:53 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/?p=831

Oh my dear holy cuteness. Be sure to click on the video after you read the article about the dog who protected an abandoned baby.

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]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/08/25/dog-protected-abandoned-newborn/feed/ Skin Problems slide show http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/05/14/skin-problems-slide-show/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/05/14/skin-problems-slide-show/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 19:12:29 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/?p=656 ewww but interesting,

Check out the skin problems slide show which shows pictures of 20 common adult skin problems.

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]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/05/14/skin-problems-slide-show/feed/ “Spoon hoarder” http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/05/01/spoon-hoarder/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/05/01/spoon-hoarder/#comments Fri, 02 May 2008 05:50:11 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/?p=626 Just a note: I just started checking my blog stats again, and yesterday someone found my blog by typing in the words “spoon hoarder.” I think that’s really cute. We go to the internet with such faith.  “I have a loved one who is a spoon hoarder. I just don’t know what to do anymore! I know who can help me: Super Internet! There must be something about spoon hoarders there!” And sure enough, there was.

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]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/05/01/spoon-hoarder/feed/ Dear Future Me… http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/03/01/dear-future-me/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/03/01/dear-future-me/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:20:30 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/03/01/dear-future-me/ Isn’t it amazing how much we change? And how much doesn’t change? If you have kept a journal for awhile and have read your old entries, you know what I mean.

You can send an email to your future self at: http://www.futureme.org

It doesn’t seem QUITE as useful as being able to get an email from your future self, but still a fun idea.

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]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/03/01/dear-future-me/feed/ Map my run http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/01/map-my-run/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/01/map-my-run/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:17:40 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/01/map-my-run/ Looking for places to walk in your neighborhood? Want to know how long your usual walking route is?

Check out Map My Run. I found it when I was looking for a way to find out how long it would take me to walk, not drive, from my office to a doctor’s office. It was very handy. Now it looks like you can find established walking, biking, running routes in your area as well.

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]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/01/map-my-run/feed/ To all my writer friends: http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/01/31/to-all-my-writer-friends/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/01/31/to-all-my-writer-friends/#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:49:03 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/01/31/to-all-my-writer-friends/ Free online writing courses!

Some of these look pretty fun, like this Advanced Essay Course at MIT:

Our focus will be negotiating and representing identities grounded in gender, race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other categories of identity, either our own or other’s, in prose that is expository, exploratory, investigative, persuasive, lyrical, or incantatory. We will read nonfiction prose works by a wide array of writers who have used language to negotiate and represent aspects of identity and the ways the different determinants of identity intersect, compete, and cooperate.

Of course, that makes me long for an interesting discussion with everyone in the class, getting to know their personalities as they share their views, watching them develop as the class goes on, getting excited together as we learn new ideas… maybe I;ll try to find something face to face in my area.

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]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/01/31/to-all-my-writer-friends/feed/ Just a plain old adult http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/11/18/just-a-plain-old-adult/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/11/18/just-a-plain-old-adult/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:28:25 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/11/18/just-a-plain-old-adult/ At my church I am officially a “young adult.” I don’t really like that title as I’m in my 30’s! I think I’m just a plain old adult. So, I look to the internet to back me up, and it does.

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=1eqmn3jtxeqvn?method=4&dsid=2222&dekey=Young+adult&gwp=8&curtab=2222_1&sbid=lc04b&linktext=Young%20adult

young adult

A young adult is someone in the transition from a teenager to an adult. It is usually informally considered to encompass the period from age 16 to age 25, although the exact period varies between societies and time periods.

In many societies, young adults encounter a number of issues as they begin to hold full-time jobs and take on other responsibilities of adulthood. Young adult literature is a literary genre of books written for this age group.


a·dult ( ?-d?lt‘, ?d‘?lt) pronunciation
n.

  1. One who has attained maturity or legal age.
  2. Biology. A fully grown, mature organism.

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]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/11/18/just-a-plain-old-adult/feed/ Friday Smile: Dancing Bird http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/10/19/friday-smile-dancing-bird/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/10/19/friday-smile-dancing-bird/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:28:15 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/10/19/friday-smile-dancing-bird/ Yes, a dancing bird! Does it get better?

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]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/10/19/friday-smile-dancing-bird/feed/ Chuck dresses up as Princess Leta http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/11/02/chuck-dresses-up-as-princess-leta/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/11/02/chuck-dresses-up-as-princess-leta/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/11/02/chuck-dresses-up-as-princess-leta/ Have you been introduced to Dooce yet? She is the thin blond former Mormon who did web design who has a blog that people read who moved back to Utah. (Me: but bizarro world)

Check out chuckles on her Flickr page.

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]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/11/02/chuck-dresses-up-as-princess-leta/feed/ SILLY THINGS by Dan Kennedy http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/10/10/silly-things-by-dan-kennedy/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/10/10/silly-things-by-dan-kennedy/#comments Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:42:00 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/?p=457

ME: Did you like having our silly time today? Did you like our walk?

HIM: I saw … walky … and … (Starts giggling.)

ME: You saw a walky?

HIM: I will crush you.

Ohh… very good. Go read the rest of it!

Found via Dooce.

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