Archive - Family

Pairing KFC with Wine

My sister is a KFC fanatic.  She loves it so much that for her past birthday I begged my local KFC employees for some used KFC boxes, coupons, and treats with which to package her present.  When the local KFC went out of business she was depressed; luckily there is another one relatively close, or [...]

Vacationitis

I wish I could say I had all kinds of fun adventures and spent a whole week soaking up the rays on the beach, but the truth is that I spent most of my vacation laying on the couch, visiting the toilet, and rotting my brain with television.  My delusions of drinking grandeur were shattered [...]

I’m Only a Child

August 01 0 Comments Category: Family, Karma, Natural Disasters, News

This video is from the UN Earth Summit in 1992. The speaker is 12 year old Severn Suzuki (Wikipedia entry for Severn Cullis-Suzuki), and her childrens group ECO (Environmental Childrens Organization) raised all the funds needed to speak at the conference.  Has anything changed?

Summer Vacation

July 23 3 Comments Category: Family, Karma, Nostalgia

Ahh… That time of year again…  For the past 15 or so odd years my family has been taking a trek to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to spend a week killing coolers of beers, devouring plates of fried tomatoes and corn fritters, getting kite strings tangled, capsizing on kayaks, spying on neighboring families [...]