I find dating websites fascinating. I tend to join them out of shear curiosity. I’ve had profiles on pretty much every dating site you can think of. Mostly to see how creepy they were and what the quality of matching is. There was one that I didn’t get to be on, because it judged whether …
Monthly Archive: September 2011
Sep 28 2011
Book Review: Jen Hancock’s Humanist Approach to Happiness
(x-posted from SheThought) Jen Hancock was kind enough to reach out to the SheThought writers and offered me a chance to read and review her book, The Humanist Approach to Happiness: Practical Wisdom. The book is aimed at teens and young adults as a way to teach ethics, critical thinking skills and decision-making to young …
Sep 27 2011
Prison or Church?
There’s been some major hullaballoo over Bay Minette, Alabama’s decision to allow offenders to either go to prison or, since there’s so much crowding, to instead go to a year of weekly Sunday Church Services. This is, of course, deserving of an outcry, but it’s not really that different from what the justice system has …
Sep 25 2011
Effort
I’ve decided to make a concerted effort to post more, even if it’s not about anything particularly interesting or a particularly in-depth post. It turns out writing a personal blog while writing for a professional one becomes a lot more difficult. Not because there aren’t things I care about, but because they necessarily take a …
Sep 17 2011
75 Books 56-60: George, Dawkins, Conley and Colfer
56. Dragon Spear – Jessica Day George This is the final book in this series. The story follows the discovery of a land where dragon’s have enslaved humans and Creel leads the “good” dragons to rescue the humans and reform the “bad” dragons. This book was just as entertaining as the earlier ones but lacked a …
Sep 03 2011
Going Back to School & Dragon*Con: I’m Speaking Monday at 1PM
And you can watch! Here. I’ve had a craaaaazy couple of weeks here. The bizarre tale. I’ve been thinking about going back to school for a while – I browsed through different PhDs online for film or creative writing and I looked at law school, but the first two seemed impractical and as I didn’t …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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