young woman

After reading Neil's blog - I of course felt the need to hop in and be a part of the Great Interview Experiment, I got the chance to read "A Date in the Life" and interview Girl in the M

While at the Hermitage library yesterday, where I think a young woman who looked much like Juliette Lewis was flirting with me (I got the heck out of there, it being my six-year anniversary and all), I picked up a book entitled True Pleasures.

Get Religion discusses the role of faith in the life of journalist Robert Novak:

Novak was born Jewish and attended Christian services sporadically until the mid-1960s, after which he stopped going to religious services for nearly 30 years. But Novak said the Holy Spirit began to intervene in his life. . . .

Not only do I consider it off-limits for a state to exercise the ultimate violence against one of its citizens, even when that individual has committed heinous crimes; I also think that killing the perpetrator shortens the amount of natural time for that person to experience guilt, shame, and punishment such as incarceration (with labor).

I was browsing the airport gift shop in Orly a few years ago, trying to find something so that I could spend my remaining francs before returning home, and a man, obviously in a hurry, plopped down a case of cigarettes on the checkout counter.

Maybe it’s because I live in Nashville (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!), but I keep finding great expressions of positive psychology principles in country music.  One recent example is Dierks Bentley’s What Was I Thinking.  The song feat

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mike Padgett, after meeting with a formerly homeless blogger, explains why he is running for Senate:

I am running for the U.S. Senate for the Kevin Barbieuxs of the world. For the farmers who are one bad crop away from foreclosure. For the young woman making minimum wage at McDonald’s.

Former Presidential candidate Tom Tancredo reveals he was the target of assasination threats on the campaign trial:

By the Columbus Day Parade in Denver three years ago, epithets were the least of his worries.