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July 2015

July 26, 2015
Remember when I made an amigurumi teddy bear for my son's birthday? After experimenting, I...
July 26, 2015
The book is subtitled "Travels Among the New Greek Ruins" but this is a bit...
July 24, 2015
Just an FYI:  I tend not to link to articles unless I genuinely have something...
July 23, 2015
A story in the high school district community education brochure that came today, similar to...
July 22, 2015
1) Illinois teachers' pensions are in the news today ("School districts escape pension penalties with help...
July 22, 2015
(or, removal of organs for transplantation purposes): I shouldn't even need to say this, but...
July 21, 2015
The article itself is fairly mundane, about the impact that a person's debt, student loans...
July 20, 2015
According to Real Clear Religion, who, it should be noted, use the headline "most beautiful...
July 19, 2015
according to which, the words and deeds of Planned Parenthood and its defenders are rational,...
July 18, 2015
That is, so far as I can tell, the rationale for supporting Obama's deal with...
July 17, 2015
So we bloggers at the Patheos Catholic channel (and elsewhere) have pretty much exhausted ourselves...
July 16, 2015
Whew -- I haven't spent much time on retirement and related issues lately, but I'm...
July 15, 2015
My birthday present just came in the mail!
July 15, 2015
OK, that's not the claim in the actual study. The study itself, "Decision Rightness and...
July 14, 2015
As reported by Tuesday's Chicago Tribune: Chicago will be the kickoff site for the 100,000...
July 14, 2015
"if Israel had made the necessary concessions to provide for a Palestinian state." "if Israel...
July 12, 2015
Here's a request: We're looking at vacation options for 2016 (yes, I know it's early!)...
July 12, 2015
Here's an article in today's paper, a piece from AP:  "Teen Truckers? Bill Would Drop...
July 11, 2015
Remember Colorado's experiment with free LARC (that is IUDs and implanted contraception) for teens and poor...
July 10, 2015
(* Yes, I’m stealing this from John Kass.) It’s well-established that graduation rates at community...
July 10, 2015
Glenn Reynolds linked this morning to a case, one of many, of a judge who...
July 08, 2015
Still thinking about marriage, especially in light of some of the comments in my earlier...
July 08, 2015
In the news today (as linked to by The Deacon's Bench), a lesbian employee was...
July 07, 2015
This is a new endeavor at Loyola University in Chicago:  a two-year college program sponsored...
July 07, 2015
So last Sunday I went to church at the neighboring parish, since its mass times...
July 06, 2015
Greece voted "no" in a referendum over the weekend that asked about whether to accept...
July 06, 2015
This started out as a "from the library" style post, on the book Is Gwyneth...
July 04, 2015
With  thanks to my husband-photographer:  
July 03, 2015
Was it simply inevitable that the Court would have decided Obergefell as it did? Three...
July 02, 2015
Yeah, I'm just going to put this out there, as I have some projects to...
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