Do not forget: Auschwitz Survivors, Liberators Honored. And maybe you will read this, too: Rwanda remembers the Holocaust And if you want to do something, here is something you can do now: sponsor a woman

found this on NewPages: Dream Obits for Liz by Ander Monson

And now, bringing new meaning to the word “stalker”: Man begs wife’s forgiveness in $17,000 ad. Sure, she started crying when she read it but probably not because she missed him, more because she felt humiliated and afraid.

and so it goes…

we must end this war: 36 U.S. Troops Die in Iraq in Their Bloodiest Day try this: withdraw us troops from Iraq – (cut and paste this URL if the link does not work: http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=18437)

At this point, the snow is not charming. At this point, the snow is soul sucking. The icicles, as tall as I am, are now dangerous. One could fall from the roof and shoot right through your head, your body, into the ground. In a few days it will be February. April is not the cruelest month. February is.

AlterNet is holding a survey on blog use (i.e. why do you read blogs?). If you are interested in sharing your opinion, you can go here and fill it out. It takes just a couple of minutes.

poem for 1.25.05: Landscape by Louise Glück

social security

Here is what really bothers me about social security: that only about two politicians can pronounce it correctly (from the top on down). It is NOT (and I do admit that alliteration can sometimes be taxing…) “sosh” security or “so-sal” security–it is so-shel security.

driveway

backyard

This weirdly, fascinating story of a depressed man lost for weeks in a cave makes me think of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.

The word of the day is: blizzard.