Happiness is …

Taking a “not so sloppy sloppy joe” recipe, changing it a little bit and making it your own …

Happiness is also baking the occasional side of fries to satiate the urge.

Happiness is …

… A homemade bowl of barley and mushroom soup. Happiness is changing your diet to an almost exclusively fresh ingredient menu.

Happiness is Homemade, because canned soup has enough sodium to fill a salt mine … And ramen noodle soup has enough sodium to fill that mine twice.

Happiness is homemade soup, served in a bowl your mom bought you (with your name on it) because she had the foresight to know that one day, it really would be “Jeremy’s Soup”. Thanks, Mom, for providing the discipline and the health education to make this process so much easier.

Bon Appetit.

Happiness is …

A carefree and silly stroll through the park.

Dan Savage on How His Religious Upbringing Helped His Career

Hell yeah. This is spot on what I’ve said many a time here at Le Café. I know I don’t say much that’s new, but criminitly …

 

‘Why Evolution Is True’ by Jerry Coyne, AAI 2009

Jerry Coyne explains ‘Why Evolution is True’ (also the title of his excellent new book) at the Atheist Alliance International 2009 conference, sponsored by The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.

Miracles Ain’t What They Used to be. Am I right or am I right?

I go back every month to see what Tracy Harris has cooked up at the ACA blog. This one struck a nervy chord with me:

One of the most inexplicable aspects of my religious upbringing was this very fact; Miracles aren’t what they used to be. How is it that, in an age of development and science, that those who claim to witness miracles are remotely satisfied with that which they are calling a miracle? How is it that there are many who question the very existence of modern miracles, and there isn’t an ounce of deified curiosity looking down from heaven and thinking, “Man, maybe I should do something unmistakably godlike.”

.

Editing Family Portraits

My second shoot on Sunday went well. There were more opportunities for organic, “available light” shots.

These are just a few that stood out. I have much more to go through. These only concentrate on momma and daughter. There are two sons and a father to figure out what to do with next!