By Andy Rice At the beginning of this football season, dismayed by the recent news about long-term brain deterioration as a result of concussions, angry about the ugly lockout and stories about racism at the NFL combine, and frustrated by the graft scandals in the NCAA, I decided to boycott football viewing this year. It [...]
So after all the hemming and hawing, we celebrated a pretty classic Christmas. We did some indoctrination: read our 3 yr old The Night Before Christmas, encouraged him to leave out some carrots and cookies for Santa. We did up a stocking for him. And we did the limited gifts for everyone else. In the [...]
SimpleViewer requires Macromedia Flash. Get Macromedia Flash. This is a WPSimpleViewerGallery var fo = new SWFObject(“http://www.sparrowpost.net/wp-content/plugins/wp-simpleviewer/viewer.swf”, “viewer”, “100%”, “650″, “7″, “#343434″); fo.addVariable(“preloaderColor”, “0xffffff”); fo.addVariable(“xmlDataPath”, “http://www.sparrowpost.net/wp-content/photos/MakingSuet/gallery.xml”); fo.write(“fc_id_304″); According to some, the tradition of giving gifts at the time of the Winter Solstice has a practical subtext. Because winters were so grueling, sharing one’s wealth across the [...]
This year I’ve backtracked from last year’s hard line no-gift policy. I’m not really sure what motivated it, but I’ve basically gone back to making or buying one thing for each member of my nuclear family. In spite of the fact that the gifts are pretty humble, I’m afraid that I may have broken some [...]
The various benefits of real v. vinyl Christmas trees has been discussed on Sparrowpost before… in the years since I first researched the question, evidence seems to have continued to favor “real” cut Christmas trees as the more sustainable option.
Can’t remember if I saw this somewhere or came up with it myself… a semi-mod way to display all those rad photo cards. This is nice ribbon, pegged to the wall with thumb tacks. You can pin the cards on or use clothespins to attach (in case sticking pins through photos has too much bad [...]
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