The World’s Craziest Soccer Mom

I am a well-known crazy aficionado. My husband calls me a “crazy anthropologist”. I love to get close to crazy people and study them like a scientist. It’s a little hobby of mine. It’s pretty safe to say that I am well-versed in various kinds of crazy. Usually, I have to go looking for the crazy, but yesterday, God gave me a gift in the form of one of the biggest loons I’ve ever met. I was sitting at my son’s soccer practice, listening to some people yammer about building a deck when all of a sudden, this woman burst on the scene with her three children. One ran onto the field because he was late for practice. Continue reading →

Mad Men Post-Mortem: Christmas Waltz

First off, thanks for waiting the extra day for this week’s post-mortem. You know the deal. You can share you thoughts and links about this week’s episode in this post.

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A Solar Eclipse of the Heart

Turn around. Every now and then it gets a little bit lonely if you’re not an astronomy nerd aficionado and don’t realize there was a solar eclipse visible yesterday. The eclipse could be spotted in much of the Northern Hemisphere from Japan all the way to the state of Kansas.

A homeowner in San Rafael, Calif. shot this video of what happens when light from the eclipse shines down through some leafy trees. Sunlight ghost bats!