"My Dinner with Rachel"

I just think this is the cutest picture, doesn't it look like Rachel is completely having a conversation with her daddy?

Virginia Tech Killings

The news has, of course, been horrid this week. The killing of the 33 people at Virginia Tech is a terrible, violent, and tragic event. Why is it, then, that it doesn't seem that people (myself included) are as shocked about this as we were eight years ago when the Columbine shootings occured? Have we as people and a society become so de-sensitized from all the killings everywhere, the war in Iraq...that this sort of massacre isn't shocking to us anymore? How terrible if so. It makes me sad for the state of our society.

Taking A Stand

I receive email updates from the United States Humane Society, and have recently received updates about the atrocities that happen in Canada this time of year, the slaughter of thousands of baby seal pups. I have and do donate to this organization, as well as a specific organization that is fighting this slaughter, http://www.ProtectSeals.org Go to their website and sign the petition that you are opposed to this horrific abuse and killing. Boycott Canadian fish products and seafood. Take a stand with me!

What I've Read Recently

Over the weekend (yes I read it almost non-stop, it was that good) I read the latest book by Cormac McCarthy called "The Road." I've been a fan of his since "All the Pretty Horses" back in the 1980's, but this is one of his best I say. It's a story about a man and the boy (father and son) who are survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. We aren't really told what exactly has done all the destruction of living trees, grass, wildlife and most of human life. Whether it be nuclear disaster or ultimately the devastation of the earth by global warming, we just know that all these things no longer exist. As the man and the boy (they don't have names, making this even more real like it could happen to me) fight starvation, cold and "the bad guys" (cannibalistic thugs) this is ultimately a story of a father's love for his son and what all we would do to keep him alive. This is a great read, a haunting novel about civilization's slow death after the lights go out.