The crazy lady strikes again for Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Now, they're coming in on Monday to install the sprinklers. The village wants these sprinklers in by the end of the month - entirely appropriate, when one considers that fire-prevention publicity generally happens in October - but I just don't like the fact that this was done on such short notice. To compound matters, my husband got sudden notice today that he's being moved up to his new corporate headquarters from his current place of employment early next month. This move is being done at the... Sign in to see full entry.

This article (click on the words " this article " to read it) posits the theory that suicide is a fundamental human right - the assumption behind this theory is that we belong only to ourselves, and that our only obligation is to respect the rights of others. If you want to live, that's your choice; if you want to commit suicide, nothing in the ethics promulgated by a truly free society should prevent you from doing so. In other words, if America were truly a free country, people would have the... Sign in to see full entry.

Recently, I was reading an article on Beliefnet by Frederica Matthewes-Greene (one of Beliefnet's regular contributors). Matthewes-Greene is an Eastern Orthodox Christian convert, married to an Eastern Orthodox priest. In that article, she mentions that suddenly, people change the definition of "experience" when they refer to religion. For example, when she visited Turkey not too long before she wrote that article, she noted that she could fairly be said to have "experienced" Turkey - but no one... Sign in to see full entry.