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PlantTherapy: Sunflowers
Right now you can get local bouquets of these at the Greenmarkets across the city. A bundle of little suns to put in a vase. I was passing by this one in Windsor Terrace with its upturned head and remembered an abiity of the sunflower: heliotropism. The bud will track the movement of the sun across the sky every day, eventually stopping when the bud stage ends and the neck of the stem stiffens.
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Sunflowers rock!
I LOVE sunflowers! I planted some red ones that are blooming now. They just make me so happy. They bring birds too, so it's a win-win.
Sunflowers also remove lead and other heavy metals from the soils they are planted in. This ability of sunflowers has been used in many soil and water clean-up projects, from Chernobyl to post-Katrina New Orleans. So if you live on a busy car intersection, a hedge of sunflowers might help your health as well! AND, the sunflowers do not store the lead they absorbed in their seeds, so the seeds will still be safe for consumption, whether by you or by the birds who are very fond of them. It's probably not a good idea to eat sunflower greens, though :)
sunflowers have always terrified me! i think it's because when i was younger we had giant sunflowers in my father's garden...at night, when we were playing neighborhood games of hide-n-go-seek i remember them looming over my then smaller head and body and they seemed like giants! i've never been able to shake that image.
i never knew about their clean-air qualities, perhaps that is another reason to try my best to embrace them. : )
What street was this taken on? It looks like a place I used to pass on 10th avenue when I lived in WT. I went from DUMBO to Carroll Gardens to Windsor Terrace, where the apartments are huge and the gardens are fanstastic.
Is it too late to plant sunflowers? I just moved into a place with a yard and I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and start gardening. If not sunflowers, what would be some good things to plant this time of year (in Washington DC)? I have a couple tomato plants and parsley I uprooted from my parents' garden, and I plan on planting lettuce once it gets cooler.


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Two Wheels for His Spacecraft
- Saturday, June 14, 2003
"Sir," he said in halting English, "I wonder if I might buy two wheels for my spacecraft."
Hymie had no idea what the extraterrestrial was talking about until he pointed a spindly green finger at the bagels in the window.
"Oh, no...no," grinned Hymie, "those aren't wheels...those are bagels."
Not certain that he'd made himself clear, "Sir, I would like to buy two of those wheels for my spacecraft."
Hymie's good humor began to waver. "Lissen, greenie, I said those are *bagels*. They're for eating."
Still smiling, the alien said, "Sir, I would like to buy two of those wheels for my spacecraft."
Getting angry now, Hymie turned and pulled a bagel from the bin, handed it to the alien, and told him to taste it.
So doing, the little green man looked at Hymie and nodded. "You know," he said, "this would go great with cream cheese."
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Friday, October 17, 2008
5:30 a.m. and a cold sweat
That was my first thought when the alarm went off this morning.
Yesterday I listened to talk about the national polls tightening and McCain gaining ground. And though I know Obama is still ahead...though I know polls usually get closer as election day approaches...though I know narrowed margins on one day could be statistical noise....though I know the electoral map looks good for Obama...though I am continually amazed at the strong support Obama has in my crimson county in a red state...though Obama is claiming top endorsements, like today's from the conservative Chicago Tribune (which is endorsing a Democratic candidate for the first time ever)...I'm a little scared, cause what if...
I've listened to the accusations patriotism. I've seen the racism. I've watched the xenophobia. I've heard the usual attacks on intelligence, reason and excellence. I've seen the sneering, ugly anger. I've listened to the lies. I've watched the attempts to disenfranchise voters. I've read about the robo calls and nasty e-mails. I've read the policies and plans that enrich a few at the expense of many. And I've heard the cowboy talk and saber rattling. It's all happening...again.
I mean, these people can't win, can they?
Man, am I scared. This is not my country.
Look, if John McCain and Sarah Palin and folks like the ones in the video above (the people McCain was so "proud of" is this week's debate) are destined to win--and I pray that they are not--we at least need to go down with a fight. Here's what you can do:
Vote NOW. If your state has early voting, don't wait to cast your vote. I did it and it took less than 20 minutes, Remember the electile dysfunction of 2000 and 2004? Don't take a chance on poorly staffed polling places, inclement weather and day-of shenanigans. Find out where to vote here.
Donate. Help make sure that the Obama campaign can keep its ads on the air and its ground game going. We need to widen the lead in those swing states. You don't have a lot of money. I don't either, but I gave a little today...for my country. Give what you can. $20. $10. $5. $2.50. Just do your part. It's easy.
Convince undecideds. If you sign up for Barack Obama's Web site, you can learn about lots of ways to help the campaign, from making calls to canvassing to writing letters to local newspapers. I'm really bad at "selling" via phone or face-to-face, but I am a decent writer, so I'll be writing some letters to the editor this weekend.
I want to be celebrating the triumph of America's better self on November 5, not filling out Canadian immigration papers (just kidding).
Let's save our country.
4 comments:
- MacDaddy said...
Tami: I've done everything but volunteer. I'll do that next week. But I've noticed that my friends have become complacent, thinking that Obama has it locked. So I'm thinking that, in addition to voting now, donating, convincing undecideds, it's important to tell friends to finish the deal: to make sure they go out and vote.
It would be sad if Obama lost, because people got too lazy to vote, thinking that Obama had the presidency locked up.
- October 17, 2008 at 9:33 PM
I won't lie, since Obama won Iowa i have been having thoughts of reconstruction and the retribution of Jim crow. Throw in the economic problems and the constant low level chant that the problems are caused by bad "minority" loans the scapegoating is to similar to the battle cry at the beginning of Nazi Germany. Ahhh, the internet a place to throw up my nerousis.
- October 17, 2008 at 10:47 PM
This campaign simply brings out in the open all the worst aspects of Americans. I've heard the sexist dupes for Obama, I've heard the racist dupes for McCain.
Racism and sexism go hand in hand, and there is no shortage of filming for ignorant clueless people. The world is full of them.
- October 21, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Such sickening hatred.
- October 25, 2008 at 7:53 PM


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hay mas ideas para celebrar aqui: Arte de la bandera y papel picado, Pastel de papel para el 15 de septiembre, y Manualidades para el 15 de septiembre
Que disfruten el dia!! :)
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Que disfruten el dia!! :)
Now here's a beautifully wonderful classic dessert that I haven't tried for ages!! Honestly, I don't think I've ever even tried making it before, but the last time I tried tasting it was ages ago for sure! I saw a delicious photo of this cake made by Averie Sunshine over at Averie Cooks and I couldn't stop staring at the photos, with mouth watering. After that, I was just waiting for a special occasion…..
A very special occasion soon came to pass, the double birthday of my dear Father- and Sister-in-law! So I tried out the cake…and well….it was…….everything I had hoped.
The recipe from Averie Cooks is super! And quite easy. Brown sugar and butter glaze, with sliced pineapple and maraschino cherries, covered in sour cream batter. Bake, rest, flip, photograph, eat! Here are a few how-to-assemble-the-cake photos that I took as I whipped together this baby: You can find the recipe here on Averie Cooks. I added my photos so you can see how I layered the pineapple and cherries. The only thing that I did differently from her recipe was to use a 10 inch round pan instead of a 9 inch one and to accidentally put the side pineapple pieces upside-down! oh, and a few extra cherries! It was so easy to flip it out of the pan after it had baked and rested awhile…123 flip! I had to take a whole bunch of photos of the luscious beauty….
See the yummy sweet juiciness?
Since I used a slightly larger pan, the batter wasn't very deep, but that was fine. The taste was……….so…………wonderful!!
Here's my little glass hen, coming to check it out…
For some reason the flavor of this cake transported me to my childhood….(though my Mom says she didn't make it very often)
The lovely cake was devoured quite quickly, though it was very very sweet. Needs a cold glass of milk! Even with all my photos of the cake, the ones on the blog with the recipe are even more amazing! :)Ahem, if you know me, you know that my in-laws live very far away….so they didn't actually get to taste the cake….um, we gobbled it down while we thought of them. It's our way of celebrating….. ;)
This bread is easy enough and delicious enough to make and eat every day!! I know you won't, and I won't even go there either, but really it's a great recipe to have on hand to round out a hot meal. It takes just minutes to throw together, about 45 minutes in the oven and a little rest while you are finishing the rest of the meal. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water….homemade bread in all it's lovely whiteness (more about that later)…
I made this recipe for Irish soda bread for our St. Patrick's Day meal, fitting, eh? I found the recipe in my rusty trusty Fannie Farmer Baking Book (the one I was going to throw out when somehow it made it's way into my house, but then I decided to use it to press flowers in, then finally when I actually started cooking and baking, realized that it contained some great recipes and instructions! Now it's my go-to for baking. Funny how things work out….) Here are the photos, then I'll add the recipe.
It's such a gorgeously rustic looking bread! I love the texture, color and the big cross in the center. Oh, and the smell while it bakes, and did I mention that it was easy? And only takes 4 ingredients! F.O.U.R. Having said that, I didn't actually have all of the ingredients on hand….
I had spent my time working on roasted cabbage and an "Irish" stew variation (made with what I had on hand: sausage, potatoes, onions and carrots…but I guess that that's fairly authentic anyways). So I go to bake up some Irish soda bread, like I did last year. I measured out the dry ingredients and opened the fridge. I knew that I didn't have buttermilk, so I would just use milk and vinegar or lime juice….but no milk!!! I dashed to the computer and typed in "substitutions for buttermilk" and found a great link here, so I found out that I could use yogurt as a substitute! Yay, I had lots of greek yogurt!
Here's a close-up of the texture (I was eating the leftover bread with balsamic vinegar and olive oil as a snack…sooooo good!) Remember, this was made with yogurt, and no extra fat! A very white color and great taste, and it must have a lot of protein with 2 cups of greek yogurt!! Now on to the recipe….
Irish Soda Bread
(an authentic recipe from The Fannie Farmer Baking Book by Marion Cunningham, 1984)
4 cups all purpose flour
1 and 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups buttermilk (or 2 tbsp. vinegar in milk to make 2 cups OR 2 cups of plain greek yogurt)
Preheat your oven to 3750 F. Grease a baking sheet or an 8-inch round pan…I used baking parchment on a cookie sheet. Add all the dry ingredients into a large bowl (flour, salt, baking soda) and mix them around. Add buttermilk and stir it up with a fork until it holds together in a rough mass. Since I was using thick yogurt, I actually had to add just a bit of water to the dough to make it mixable. Knead the dough a few times (I did this right in the bowl) then pat into about an 8 inch round mound on the sheet (or in the round pan). Using a sharp knife, slash a large X into the top of the dough, about 1/4 of an inch deep.
Bake for about 45 to 50 minutes, until it is nicely browned and the X has spread open. Transfer to a rack to cool for awhile, then wrap it in a slightly damp tea towel and let it rest, on the rack for about 8 hours. This recipe makes one round loaf, and it should be completely cool when you serve it. The rest time in a damp towel helps the crust to nicely soften up. We didn't wait 8 hours, obviously, or it wouldn't be such a quick bread!!
If you can whip this up right before you prepare the meal, bake it, then let it sit in the damp towel while you make the rest of the meal, it should be ready to be served when the meal is ready. Using the towel is a good way to store leftovers. This bread also makes great toast! I love it with balsamic vinegar and olive oil, or just plain with butter. This loaf was enough to go with 2 meals for the six of us! So thankful for our blessings!
(now I am craving some yummy bread….!)
A sweet little green dessert packed in serving-sized mason jars! For half of the winter I've been looking forward to celebrating the green…the green of spring. There is no green around here. Amazingly, the snow has started melting a lot and we can see grass, it's just not green yet. Seriously, it's been about 12 years since we've had nice weather to be outdoors for my daughter's bday next week. It has always been winter weather, usually snowing. So bring on some shamrocks, rainbows and a whole huge pot of gold! Spring is in the air!
Extra bonus for you: 5 minute shamrocks: use a heart punch. punch. glue together, or not. There you go.Enough with the decorating, back to the desserts…
My Mom gave me a flat of little mason jars, I've had so much fun with them! They are the perfect size for individual desserts. So instead of making a big trifle with the pound cake I baked the other day, I made these jar desserts for each of us. It wasn't very difficult to fill the jars. All you need is cake, whipped cream, jello and some fruit slices. The other day I baked up a vanilla pound cake, the old fashioned kind, and tinted it green. (any kind of cake should work). I sliced the pound cake up then cut out circles with a cookie cutter. Mix up some green gelatin/jelly jello, I used lime flavor. Use a tiny bit less water than called for, and do the ice cube method to cool it off faster. Add a few spoonfuls of jello to each jar, then let it set up (I stuck them into the freezer for a bit) while you are cutting the cake into circles and whipping the cream (or Cool Whip will work). The rest of the jello went into the fridge to start setting up.
So, jello, a round of cake, a squeeze of whip cream. Then slice up some kiwis and chop each slice in half. Set them in the jars against the side (so you can see them!), then fill up the hollow with some jello when it is half-set, so it is still kind of blobby and pourable. Then another layer of cake and some whipped cream. Let them sit for as long as possible in the fridge (overnight is best. Especially if the cake was a little stale!) When I open them up, I'll add another slice of kiwi on top. I love that these jars have lids, so easy to pop into the refrigerator. They would be great to take on a picnic (if the weather was nice enough!), or even for the kids' lunches (if I was nice enough!)My favorite Irish band has a new release today! yay! And here's a great watch for today:
There's still a bit of time to make something yummy for tomorrow! Well, ok, time is rather ticking away, but there's still time to rush out and buy some fruit and whipped cream! And then tomorrow you could mix up a batch of pancakes….layer them up and there you go, a fruit rainbow for St. Paddy's day! I saw this idea on Pinterest, but then when I started putting it together I realized that whatever was used in the photo was not pancakes (cookies I think). (P.S. I just found out that the idea was from i am baker! Yes, cookies, with an awesome cream cheese frosting!) So my pancakes were a bit floppy and the stack was leaning a bit….solved that with a straw right down the middle of the pile! The "fun" part is to layer your fruit in the order of the rainbow. If you don't remember that order, watch the fun little video at the end of this rainbow post, then you'll never forget again!
The fruits I used were red grapes, frozen blueberries (fresh ones would have looked more blue), kiwi, banana, orange and strawberries. So easy!
And then it was sliced up into four awesome slices….
Add each fruit in a blanket of whipped cream between layers of pancakes. Like I said, it was quite easy…..or would have been if this hadn't happened….
My mixer went crazy while I was getting a pancake out of the pan…when I looked over at it, a ring of cream was blobbing out of the bowl. What a goopy mess! But it didn't actually surprise me….that's how I usually cook….messy…. ;)
Anyways, to cheer myself up, I love to watch this video for St. Patrick's Day! An 8 minute account of St. Patrick's life for the kids….even with flannel boards!
An easy way for toddlers and preschoolers to celebrate Valentine's Day! Pink dough to play with! Mix up a quick batch of pink colored dough and break out the heart cookie cutters! The recipe I used is at the end of the post. Here's my nostalgic look back at my babies busy at work on their "Valentines"We're going to make something!Squish that pinkness!The idea was to get them to make a Valentine on the table, then I would photograph it as their "valentines" for Daddy and Grandma and Grandpa.And that's what we did.It was a lot of very pink fun! I had to play a bit, too….Here's the recipe I use for play dough:
2 and 1/2 cups of white all purpose flour (I've tried it with whole wheat flour, and let's just say…No!)
1 cup of salt (fine, not coarse)
2 small packages of Kool Aid (the ones without real sugar) this is optional. if you don't have Kool Aid, then add food coloring
3 tsp. vegetable oil (canola oil is good)
2 cups of boiling water
Mix all the dry ingredients together, then add the boiling water. Stir it all together very well and turn out onto a surface where you can knead it a bit. It will be hot, so let it cool a bit before kneading. Then knead away until it becomes smooth. When it's cool enough, the kids can start playing. As soon as it's cool enough, either play with it or seal it in plastic bags so it doesn't start drying out. This will last for quite awhile in a sealed bag. Note: the Kool Aid is just for easy color and aroma! We used cherry for Valentine's day. If the kids love the smell so much that they taste it, it won't hurt them at all, just a little salty. If there's worry about the flour, then I'd say don't add the Kool Aid and then it won't smell appetizing enough for little ones to put into their mouths!
Fun for the kids to make, and the photos are easy to send to everyone online, no mess, no snail mail! ;) Just digital cuteness from the kids! Happy <3 weekend!
How do you say Happy Valentine's Day to those you love? Flowers, candy, cards, or some even bigger display? Or do you prefer to do something special together? Or is it one of those days that just slips by? I saw a funny "quote" the other day. It was a photo from Star Wars and the caption was "I'll be celebrating Valentine's Day Han's style….Solo!" Maybe that's more you :)
We don't make a super big hoohaw about Valentine's Day, a few special things, like maybe chocolate or sometimes flowers. I'm usually in favor of homemade or home-printed Valentines. (OK, I admit sometimes I put way too much work into the "homemade" Valentines that the kids take to school. But this year, I put in 10 minutes of work on a printable, and then they are on their own, I'm just too tired,with a been there, done that kind of feeling). Anwyays, I came up with a brilliant idea that I think will make a memorable Valentine's Day for us this year: The kids are in charge of making and serving supper for my husband and I. Sounds a tad dangerous, but I intend to enjoy it! We'll see how it goes…
After having said that, I admit I did make a few Valentine's cookies. I had the dough in the fridge and a few more M&Ms from the last couple of posts! :) And I had these cute letter cookie cutters to try out! (A fun gift from a friend) So here goes a little tutorial for some fairly easy, but attention-getting cookies.
Ingredients: chocolate cookie dough and candy melts (I use Wilton brand) and letter cookie cutters (or just freehand it) and small heart cutters.Amor= love in Spanish ;) Galletas=Cookies! Cut out letters and a bunch of small or medium hearts for bases.Bake and let cool…..cool!Melt up some red and white candy melts and get ready to pipe them out of baggies with only a tiny corner snipped off…Squeeze strings of candy melt out while moving back and forth over all the letters. Repeat with next color.Then pick up each letter and break off the extra bits of candy melt off the sides, this is really easy and works well.Line up the letters and the bases, some letters need two hearts for their bases.Use some more candy melt to attach the bases, I used dark cocoa candy melts (only took 3 melts)Holding the letters in place for about 5 seconds was mostly enough to balance the letters, but if necessary, prop them up for a bit…The candy melts set up quite quickly. Here's the bird's eye view:And there you go! The letters are quite sturdy and just so fun looking! Great for a Valentine's Day centerpiece.Oh wait! Since you have the cookie dough out, and maybe a few extra cookies baked, go ahead and decorate some more for your centerpiece. Here's how I did it with Nutella and M&Ms using the same idea from the other day's post: The kids wanted to cut out some Os and Xs for hugs and kisses, so I used up the last of the red M&Ms on these:And here's one for you from me (sorry it's not edible but I'm all about digital stuff)
I'd love to hear from you if you try out some of my little cookie techniques! :)


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Adoption Journey: Heading Home Alone
"It's clear to us that the government's main objective is to only show Westerners the children with serious physical or mental issues." In part six of her journey, Tracy accepts the fact that she won't find the daughter of her dreams in the Ukraine and heads home -- brokenhearted.
December 23
Our job in L'viv is done. We've traveled to three orphanages and have met the directors; they've all been angry to hear of the lies coming from Kyiv about the availability of healthy children for adoption. The kids are here and so are we. Now what?
December 24
We're back in Kyiv and the laws are changing daily. We're being told by our facilitators, whom we now loathe for being flat-out liars, that if we wait for a second appointment -- which would be granted in two to three months -- we'll be shown healthy children. What? For Christ's sake! We're here right now! We've seen plenty of healthy children with our own eyes. We've seen the sadness of orphanage directors who desperately want to find these children homes. WTF is going on here?!?
The politics of this proves to be far bigger than we are, and right now I'm not even writing about the way money changes hands here or the dark system in which the facilitators must work. It's just so effed up and the children seem to be the pawns.
It's clear to us that the government's main objective is to only show Westerners the children with serious physical or mental issues. Our only choice is to go home and wait for another appointment. We are sick, tired, and desperate to get out of Kyiv. It's Christmas week and our "round-the-clock international adoption travel agency" that guarantees they're there when you need them, is nowhere to be found -- their emergency number goes to a dead-end answering machine that's checked by no one. We call ad nauseam, e-mail, nothing. Merry Christmas. We're trapped in this godforsaken town in a postmodern Arabian Nights-themed apartment for another three days. I will now close the pale yellow curtains that encircle our bed and hide.
January 27
We've been back in L.A. still trying to wrap our heads around what happened in Ukraine. I'm sobbing on the phone with our social worker, and now friend, Carri, about this mess. What are we supposed to do now? Wait and take another risk in Ukraine? We're four years into this and we're getting older by the minute. We've spent all of our money and everyone is trying to send John and me to "an attorney who can get us a baby in three months." WE DON'T WANT A BABY, GODDAMMIT! If we had wanted that, we would've had our own. And, besides, there are people clamoring for babies. We want to adopt a toddler who doesn't have much of a chance of finding a home. We know "our" child is out there -- it's just a matter of finding her.
Carri, who now works for a foster care agency, pulls the pin on her social work grenade and lobs it at me: "Would you consider adopting a kid through foster care?"
I freak out. "WHAT? AND DEAL WITH A CRACKHEAD MOTHER WHO GETS OUT OF REHAB AND COMES TO GET HER CHILD BACK? Forget it. Not a chance! I want to get my kid, come home, and close the door."
"I have an idea," says this adorable foot soldier for children. "There's an orientation that you can come to just to see what it's about. I'll be there. It's free, we'll feed you dinner, and you've got nothing to lose."
"Carri, because I love you, I'll try to talk John into coming. But I'm telling you, I've done shows on this [from my old talk show days], and I'm not interested in battling lunatic, biological families and then ultimately losing. I just don't have it in me. I'm wearing down."
The orientation is next week. John's never gonna go for this. I have to approach it delicately. She did say there'd be food, right?
|Tracy Mazuer is a TV producer/writer and creator of TheReluctantGenius.com "for professionals who need professional help." She and her husband John have been married for 23 years and live in Playa del Rey with their 2 dogs, Hankie and Lizzie.
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I don't think its fair to assume all children in foster care have crackhead parents. I didn't. And I really wanted to be adopted. I was really pulling for you, but if that's the kind of crap you'll pass on to kids, then…
I understand the corruptness of being only shown children with disabilities. My question for you is, if your objective is to give a child a home who wouldn't otherwise have one, why are you so close-minded to giving a home to a child who might be LESS likely to get one because s/he is disabled or in foster care?
Frankly I'm finding it hard to muster any sympathy for this couple seeing that they come off so selfish and spoiled. I hate to think these would be the traits they would pass on to a child. Maybe it is meant to be that they remain childless. Crackhead parents? Not all kids in foster care have crackhead parents and even if they are what does that have to do with it? What a close minded remark! I can't get past the fact that a child with a disability in their minds is any less deserving of love. Things happen in life. What if they were to adopt and something happened to the child which caused them to be disabled? Would they simply return her as defective?
Do the world and the potential adopted child a favor and keep with the childless thing! It seems to fit!
The "daughter of her dreams"?
How disgusting!
Adoption is about finding homes for children who need families - not shopping for a child like they are pets!
This couple should never be allowed to adopt.
"Heading Home Alone"
Well, sometimes stories do have happy endings! Go get a puppy and call it quits!!
Either you are really using emotion to make for one heck of a blog or you are really truly selfish. With what you are ranting, you don't deserve a child. You hold too much bias and pre-judgement about what you consider acceptable. I sure hope you turn this into a positive spin. I'd hate to think that the stuff you are putting out her are truly your real feelings. I'll be waiting.
Quite frankly it doesn't seem that any of us give a foul mouth care about what you want.
David Cottrell www.ukraineorphans.net
Honest emotions!
Real concerns!
No sugar coating!
Fresh Honest emotions!
I think you are amazing and I hope that you find your child. The one you are meant to be parents too!
I understand your concerns and worries!
Alright folks, here's the real poop. John and Tracy are easily… EASILY among the most giving, selfless, compassionate people you could imagine. For someone to say that someone else is selfish, and to harbor judgment towards someone whom you've never met is selfish/self centered. So, for those holier than thou few who have chosen to berate Tracy and John without digging deeper before casting dispersions, educate yourselves completely before jumping to conclusions. It's easy to focus on what may not adhere to your beliefs, but don't overlook the wonderful thing that this couple has done for the child they adopted.
P.S. I'm an adult that needed a helping hand, and received one from these wonderful folks, so I speak from first hand experience.
With all due respect, they may have done a wonderful thing, but could have been a bit less raw with their words. They have shown little respect for the country they tried to adopt in. They thought their "connections" would given them the edge. They "kid shopped" and didn't appear happy with choices given. Tracy's words were negative toward kids in foster care. Typically people try to be controlled in thier words and judgements around people they don't know and if they are willing to be so blunt to strangers, it is scary. It seems like they saw a picture of a beautiful child adopted from the Ukraine and they wanted a carbon copy. As I have said, I am hopping all of this is just drama to see a good ending.
Eric, I understand your need to defend your friends. But look at it from our perspective: all we know is what we've read here, and it isn't pretty. Do YOU feel proud of the words Tracy has shared on these pages? Can you honestly say they come across as anything but selfish and jaded?
Based on your post, it sounds like they now have a child—hooray. I hope it's a good fit for everyone involved. But I can't see beyond the broken dreams of the children they deemed not good enough; the children they went out of their way to "see for themselves," then left behind. From face value, it seems like a good story — a loving couple giving a home to a child who needs one. But from her words shared here, it's a nasty, heartbreaking horror story for just about everyone involved. I don't consider that a happy ending, but I'm watching to see how this turns out.
You are amazing and wonderful. Keep up the good work in reporting the facts of adoption. I have laughed with you, prayed for you on your long journey and cried with you for your heartbreak and the sorrow of leaving these children behind. I am so sick of reading from these do gooders that havn't a clue what they are talking about. The worst of which is the so called ukrian/orphan adoption agency. He should be investegated. I am soooo proud of your news. Keep up the good work.
Eric, way to go . Thanks from me for John and Tracy. Barb and Kris, go nag at your husbands or someone else. You know squat about this and have not paid attention. It is much better to see the good than focus on the negetive.
I am only expressing my opinion on how Tracy and John have handled this. As a parent who has adopted a child, internationally, I undertand that in doing so, you have to be accepting that laws change and that in many countries, especially eastern Europe, rules get made up and change as you go along. it is not right, but that is how it works.
From this site, I did not see any mention of an adoption agency, just "inside help"(mistake #1).When we adopted, we researched agencies for months before committing to one and many agencies are unscrupulous(both here and abroad).
They assumed everything would go smoothly(mistake #2). As we were adopting, rules in Guatemala changed and everything was up in the air and there were possibilities that our daughter would never come home. Happy about that? No, but with everything there comes a risk.
I also have 2 biologcial kids and one has Asperger's. So I have experience with special needs and a topsy-turvy international adoption. So I guess I am not a "do gooder with no clue." As far as my husband goes, he was taken aback but the choice of words expressed by Tracy as well.
As I have said each time, I am still hoping for a positive end.
Any criticism I have made has been the naivete in which they have handled the situation. When you put your life up on the world wide web for all to see, you have to accept both the good and the bad.
How heart wrentching!
It is raw. It is not pretty. But it is honest!
Tracy is sharing real feelings and reactions, not something sugar coated for an audience!
Well done you!
Thanks you for the reference to the site. I read through it and found it quite insightful. Many topics discussed are things we know will come up with our daughter. Hopefully we can be the best parents for her. Many compare our adoptive daughter to our biological kids. Typical, I guess, but unfair, but we roll with it. It took a year before those in our lives realized that she is who SHE is. It is very obvious she has different strengths that our bio kids and we will allow those to be pursued, it is who she is.
Kris; Thank you for responding. John and Tracy did have an agency here in the states and the insider is a friend of theirs who was only trying to help. There are a lot of good people in this world but there are also many,many bad people some of which deal with these children. They use them as pawns and that is what is so sad. John and Tracy have only hit on the surface of all of this.


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Many of the best financial writers and market watchers have one thing in common: they've contributed to TheStreet.com at some point in their careers.
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Before there even was a financial web, there was TheStreet.com.
Before Yahoo Finance had 23 million users, before there were blogs, before there was any real online trading worth mentioning, before anyone was doing market-related stuff on the web (mainstream media included) - there was TheStreet.com. November of 1996 to be exact, I became a reader in July 1997 when I began studying for my Series 7.
The remarkable thing about TheStreet.com, however, is not that they were so early. To me, the real story is about the sheer amount of talent that's been through that site over the years. When you think about today's market punditry, so many of the top voices are alums of TheStreet.com it's mind-blowing.
An obvious comparison from the music business comes to mind: TheStreet.com is the Motown Records of the financial web.
James Cramer, the Berry Gordy figure in my analogy, is just the tip of the iceberg.
Like Gordy's Motown Records, the power was in the roster, not in any one star. The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight, The Supremes, The Temptations and the Jackson 5 were all stars, but they were also extremely fortunate enough to share the production, songwriting and accompaniment that only Hitsville, USA could provide them with. What made TheStreet so vital was the idea that you could read so much intelligent commentary from so many columnists in one place.
Over the last 14 years, some of the best financial writers and market comentators ever have written for TheStreet. What was cool and original about TheStreet's roster was that they had practioners mixed in with real journalists. Traders, analysts and hedge fund managers were mixed in with hard-hitting reporters, no one was doing anything like it. The concept was way before its time and when combined with the real-time aspect, market participants like myself fell in love, preferring it to newspapers and magazines.
Below is a list of some of these TSC writers off the top of my head. It is by no means comprehensive but it should give you a good idea of how ridiculously great their roster has been over the years...
James Cramer - The first financial blogger. No matter what anyone says about him, they can't take that. Cramer's greatest strengths as a commentator are his openness and his honesty. They are also his greatest weakness as he leaves himself vulnerable to the second-guessing and nastiness that are in such large supply on the web.
Herb Greenberg - Was the first to be doing the type of investigative market journalism online that thousands are now imitating. You can see him now on CNBC and on the Net Net blog. Greenberg has been listening to the epithet "tool of the short-sellers" forever, meanwhile the list of bad apple companies whose shenanigans he uncovered is endless.
Paul Kedrosky - Those economic and financial linkfests everyone is doing these days? Kedrosky owned it and did it for TSC better than most. Paul brought an eclecticism and an eye for off-the-beaten path stories that kept things interesting, even in monotonous markets. He can now be found at his site Infectious Greed.
James Altucher - I met him for the first time last week, it was like being at Disney World and seeing Mickey Mouse. I've been reading Altucher's stuff for almost 10 years, he's one of the most clever and ubiquitous financial writers in the game and a pioneer of online punditry. I'd tell you where you could read his work now but the list would go on forever. For an up-and-comer like myself, Altucher is the model.
Barry Ritholtz - The biggest and best financial blogger in the world, hands down. Barry did some incredible work at TheStreet writing his Apprenticed Investor column there. Those of us who were young in the business when he began writing it learned so many of the great market lessons and truisms from his stuff. Barry left TheStreet and ramped up his own site The Big Picture and the rest is history.
Doug Kass - Doug was always my favorite writer at TheStreet and when RealMoney Silver launched, he was the only reason I shelled out the big bucks for a yearly subscription. His column, The Edge, is one of the most insightful and interesting market journals out there, day in and day out.
Gary B. Smith - The internet's original Chart Man, Gary was doing technical analysis in a mainstream, entertaining way before most of today's bloggers were out of middle school. He can be seen on Fox News' Bulls and Bears program, which used to be about stocks but has now become about tax reform and labor unions, unfortunately.
And there are so many more current and former TSC contributors who warrant mention here...
The list goes on and on, I'm sure I've missed some great writers who have contributed there along the way.
Many of Motown's great recording artists ultimately branched out and did their own thing. In like fashion, many of TheStreet's writers have moved on to blogging on their own and mainstream media gigs.
It's almost impossible to go through a day in the market without coming across the opinion of at least one alum of TheStreet.com. That is a testament to how much amazing talent that site has spawned since its beginnings.
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The 82-year-old Iranian woman keeps the documents that upended her life in an old suitcase near her bed. She removes them carefully and peers at the tiny Persian script.
There's the court order authorizing the takeover of her children's three Tehran apartments in a multi-story building the family had owned for years. There's the letter announcing the sale of one of the units. And there's the notice demanding she pay rent on her own apartment on the top floor.
Pari Vahdat-e-Hagh ultimately lost her property. It was taken by an organization that is controlled by the most powerful man in Iran: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. She now lives alone in a cramped, three-room apartment in Europe, thousands of miles from Tehran.
The Persian name of the organization that hounded her for years is "Setad Ejraiye Farmane Hazrate Emam" – Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam. The name refers to an edict signed by the Islamic Republic's first leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, shortly before his death in 1989. His order spawned a new entity to manage and sell properties abandoned in the chaotic years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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When Jody moved into her 1960s ranch in Northeast Austin, she was at a loss as to what to do about a huge stump at the edge of her patio. Removing it would've been expensive and time-consuming, so she decided to make the best of it. Since she often hosts backyard barbecues, she realized it would make the perfect cooler...
She got out her chain saw (talk about no fear of power tools) and sliced away chunks of wood that were jutting into the stump's main cavity.
Then she used a heavy duty garbage bag to hold the ice ...
... and added locally produced beer, including Shiner and Independence ale.
(If you try this yourself, don't forget the safety glasses since wood chips can be unpredictable.)
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mm Shiner. this is awesome! and very texan :)
Smart, very smart. I live in Bastrop and will do the same thing with an old stump I have out here. I prefer Harp Lager or Heineken but hey to each his/her own as long as it is sweating cold. Nothing beats a Texas summer heat than a icy cold beer as you watch the sunset behind the Live Oaks.
I think I'd like it if the liner was something more attractive than a black trash bag.
Ditto on the lining - I don't have a stump to play with but if I did I'd probably tar the inside and paint/decorate the rim.
:-D that is a fun solution.
Why not just put some river rock in the bottom to keep the beer/ice from falling through...then put the ice in and the beer and enjoy the day. Why is a liner needed at all - just let the water run away.....
Ditto on the liner yet again... maybe you could just tuck it in. The idea, though is... cool! (Sorry, I had to.)
The trashbag is just a temporary solution. The stump can always be painted and lined with another sort of reusable material (vinyl tablecloth, silver tarp) to make it more aesthetically pleasing. Jody just wanted to see if it would work. And lots of people have stumps in Texas since plenty of trees (like mesquites and pecans) grow like weeds and interfere with power lines and pipes. I saw a neighbor using a stump in the front yard for a planter. And if the stumps are a little taller, you could always attach a top and use it as a table.
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Nothing sexier than a black garbage back sticking out of a stump... yes sir.
Can't you just put the ice straight into the stump? Why do you need to line it at all? It would look way better. Don't hide the stump!
Uh, isn't the stump a home for rodents and bugs? If you put the ice right in the stump wouldn't you be flooding rodents and insects out of their homes?
Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not a rodent or insect lover. I was just wondering. Wouldn't it be easier to just place a garbage can next to your trailor and put the ice in that?
I'm assuming that if you're using a stump for a cooler that this isn't a real CLASSY affair. Hence, the garbage can suggestion.
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Sorry, but I'm not loving this idea. But kudos to you for thinking outside the box!
May I suggest using it as a planter instead? Before doing that, though, the stump would need to be hollowed out a bit more.
I like the idea but not the black bag.
I think that if the stump was cut level across the top-a metal/plastic tub would fit over the hole & help to elevate the drinks to a convenient height.
I didn't think the stump was an eyesore until a plastic bag full of beer was put in it. Yuck.
I second the making it a planter idea.
jeez oh pete! what about utility? A plastic cooler doesn't look great either but it certainly serves a function. I like the way it looks and would definitely use it during a cookout or such.
I have a stump like that and did make a planter. Looks pretty cool and it also helps the tree rot a bit more for hopefully easier removal. One day.
Interesting idea tho.
I'm thinking, get a nice decorative clear container (I'd lean towards a punch bowl maybe?). Put those nice rounded river rocks in the bottom of the stump, put in the container, nestle more rocks around it, and use that.
I don't know, without the trash bag I think it'd look awesome and be really fun at a party. I like the planter idea too - we have a neighbor who did that with one of hers and it's beautiful.
Since we're talking tree stump here, deep six any lining at all, fill it to overflowing with ice, and let the melting ice do its thing, which would be to get absorbed by the stump. It would still outlast an all night party, and it would look really terrific. Also, more eco friendly w/out the plastic bag. Keep life simple!
we had to cut down an old mesquite tree just last week (it was bending the fence and the sap was like acid on our cars) and the stump is huge and cost would be really expensive to yank it out. only thing is its not near our BBQ pit! :\
That's fun and efficient. You appear to have enough room in that stump to nestle a groovy plant on one side and a lot of ice and beer right into the stump itself on the other.
Rvrlvr mad a wise suggestion.. River rock or wood chunks could be used to raise the level of the bottom of the cavity so you don't need more than a couple of bags of ice to fill it up nicely.
I really like this as is. Paint/tar/waterproofing would be a gilding the lily.


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Third Day -- Their Take on Worship
- Tuesday, February 20, 2001
Worship music is now trendy. You can't throw a rock in a Christian record store without hitting the CD of some Christian group or solo artist who has decided to record a praise & worship project. At first glance, it might appear that with their latest, Offerings-A Worship Album, that Third Day is following the crowd, but ironically, for Third Day, the release of a worship album is very much a continuation of what they've been doing all along. Third Day's tendency to dwell on matters of faith and relationship with God has served to create an ever-present, underlying sense of worship in their songs that audiences have been quick to connect with.
"Worship has always been a huge part of what we do," says Mac Powell, Third Day's sandpaper-and-grit vocalist. "That's why it's kind of amazing to see this praise and worship thing is such a fad now. It's weird to us because we've always done it. It's not like worship music is new, but all of the sudden everybody likes it now. Actually, that is a great thing and I believe it is a genuine move of God through his people."
"Worship has to come from the heart and be sincere," says Third Day drummer, David Carr, "so we've been really wary about jumping on a 'worship music' bandwagon. On the other hand, especially in our live shows, it's a big part of what we do and we want to make it even more so. Some of our songs we never thought of in worship - context until we began performing them live and saw people raising their hands and worshiping. It surprises us and makes us realize that what we do is sometimes more worshipful than we know."
The worship record, produced by Monroe Jones (Chris Rice, Margaret Becker, Wes Cunningham) and the band includes six live concert versions of Third Day worship favorites, such as Agnus Dei and My Hope Is You. There is also a live rendition of the hit song, Your Love, Oh Lord, from the critically acclaimed album, Time, named Rock Album of the Year during this year's Gospel Music Association Dove Award ceremony.
The project further features five completely new worship songs, including Mac's personal favorite, You're Everywhere. He recalls the day it was recorded. "In the studio that day, we played through it just so that we could listen to it and see where we needed to take it. Really, we barely made it through the song, but when the producer played it back, he said, 'That's it.' So we kept the basic track from the very first time we ever played it together as a band. There were overdubs, but basically that was it, and with studio work, that is very, very rare."
Third Day also gives their own rootsy southern-edged rock treatment to a Bob Dylan classic; the title cut from his critically acclaimed album, Saved. "Bob Dylan made probably the most spiritual record I've ever heard in my life," says Mac. "You can just feel the sense of excitement and the spiritual fervor that he had then and it reminds me when I first became a Christian. It has a simplicity about faith that we wanted to share with our audience."
Another highlight is the burgeoning fan favorite, These Thousand Hills. While most listeners will not recognize it, the song is actually a remake of a tune originally released years ago, by Atlanta-based band, Jacob's Trouble. "The very first concert we went to together was a Jacob's Trouble concert," recalls Mac. "That song was always one that we wanted to do as a band and this worship album seemed like a perfect fit. We've added a sing-a-long part and audiences really seem to like it." The song was featured during a recent critically and commercially successful 46-city tour with Jennifer Knapp. The group performed to over 100,000 enthusiastic fans with capacity crowds in every market and the tour logged 19 sellouts in such cities as Los Angeles (Anaheim, CA), Chicago (Wheaton, IL), Seattle, Phoenix, and Orlando, as well as in the band's hometown.
Mac sums up the group's perspective on performing worship music: "There's no real transition for us from doing a regular song versus a worship song. We approach all of our music from one perspective-like Paul wrote, 'whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.' We want to remain in that mode continually. Worship is so much a part of who we are and what we do that we consider most of our songs worship songs. Worship is an inseparable part of who we are as a band."
Worship may now be considered trendy. It may be at the industry's cutting edge because of its bottom line viability, but for Third Day it is-and has always been a way of life.
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4 seat convertable only 65000 miles!
2000 Renault Megane 1998cc Monaco
4 seat convertable only 65000 miles!
Original car with low mile
1976 Corvette T top convertable
Original car with low mileads
4 seat convertible, only 89k miles
1995 Volkswagen Golf 2.0 Avantgarde.
4 seat convertible, only 89k miles


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