by Taylor Eason | Jan 10, 2008 | I Do: Wedding Edition
In the movies, the debonair leading man pulls a bon mot out of the air with a wide grin, demonstrating his good breeding and social grace. The girls swoon as his words hang in the air. But one need not be Fred Astaire to deliver a festive toast. Toasts, memorable...
by Advocate Staff | Jan 10, 2008 | I Do: Wedding Edition
Amy & Danielle CloughThe limo broke down, it poured rain, the photographer ripped the train on Danielle’s dress, but none of that mattered. The skies cleared, our family and friends wept with joy and a rainbow appeared. We were married.Margaret Rooks &...
by Hayley Wood | Jan 3, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Christmas was yesterday but I’m sure I won’t be putting away the Christmas books that always float to the top of the general household clutter this time of year. Most of them are children’s booksenjoyed by my husband and I in childhood and now...
by James Heflin | Jan 7, 2008 | The Public Humanist
When I was but a young lad, I was with my Dad (then a Southern Baptist minister, now a Baptist professor), and a few other adults in someone’s back yard in rural Louisiana. Someone pointed out two stars (probably a planet and a star, I now realize) that had...
by Stephen J. Simurda | Jan 10, 2008 | The Public Humanist
I’m not sure what it is about journalists, but I know of no other profession whose practitioners spend as much time gnashing their teeth about what they’ve done wrong or the overall problems of the field. At times journalists can seem almost obsessed with...