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Violence against women

Posted on March 23, 2011 by

Yesterday I finished Oksanen: Purge and watched  the Israeli movie Kirot, aka “The Assassin Next Door.” Today I watched an Israeli documentary called “The Way Up” and started to read the latest issue of the CrossCurrents journal. What’s common in all … Continue reading →

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Nuclear impressions

Posted on March 16, 2011 by

Today I was vaguely following the terrifying news about the problems at the nuclear power plants in Japan. In the evening I watched the latest episode of the TV series “Chuck“. Part of the episode’s, “Chuck Versus the A-Team“, plot revolved around a portable nuclear bomb. Later … Continue reading →

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Garden talk

Posted on March 14, 2011 by

Saturday morning Anya called in to a radio show on KSRO titled “Garden Talk” and asked a question live on the show. I recorded most of it, except I missed the first few sentences. Listen to her below. When the … Continue reading →

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Summary of February 2011

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

Last year I started to write weekly summaries of my/our life, mostly about my online activities. I only managed to 16 weeks, then I got too busy to keep up with it. So now, I thought maybe I can gather … Continue reading →

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2010 blog numbers

Posted on January 23, 2011 by

In 2010 I posted 488 posts on this blog. Admittedly, 261 of those contained only a single picture of our garden. Let me extend the statistics of the past that I posted in March, in the 1000th post, with the … Continue reading →

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2011: The year of growing

Posted on January 4, 2011 by

Last year I made a few resolutions for 2010. I kept them mostly private, only sharing some of them with friends and family in person or protected online spaces. This year I am not making resolutions. Instead, I am announcing … Continue reading →

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Summary of the week starting November 7

Posted on November 14, 2010 by

This week started of with having a busy Sunday. I wrote up the report of what I did for my library blog here, but let me just tell you that I read a book for kids, lead a discussion with … Continue reading →

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Summary of the week starting October 31

Posted on November 7, 2010 by

This week on my blog about online religion I posted the list of the seven articles that were published in October on the blog’s topic and the list of the 40, mostly older, articles I added to the article database. I … Continue reading →

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Summary of the week starting October 24

Posted on October 31, 2010 by

I am almost caught up with what I wanted to post on my blog about online religion . This week I mused and shared and literature related to cyber pilgrimage (prompted by a beautiful presentation of a Sufi shrine) , … Continue reading →

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Summary of the weeks starting October 10

Posted on October 24, 2010 by

I didn’t manage to post a summary last weekend, so this time I am covering a fortnight. On my blog about online religion I linked a series of reflections about on the U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey, commented on the single … Continue reading →

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