Sika | July 30, 2009
The one caveat is that you have to get the peppermint extract during the 3 months a year when it seems to be at all the USaves, Tutlas, Argos, and People’s.
Then print out or copy the recipe here at 101 cookbooks.
This is a wonderful website with amazing dishes I can’t wait to try when I [...]
Sika | March 18, 2009
This post at Shakesville honestly made me cry. It made me think about adoption in a way I never have before. It’s political, but not in any kind of a shrill way. Mostly it’s just heart-felt and heart-rending. You don’t need to have strong opinions about the matter: just read it. Maybe, like me, you’ll [...]
Sika | February 23, 2009
We were meant to go to Robben Island our second day in South Africa. We had also booked it by phone, since the website tells you how to make online bookings but then refuses to actually accept them. We were told that Robben Island is worth going to and books up early. So we did [...]
Sika | June 20, 2008
I meant to post this link a long time ago, but go read
wensurprised
. She’s a beautiful writer and her experiences here in Malawi (in the education sector teaching at a secondary school, and in the village) are very different than mine. Plus, I’m pretty sure her username is a Terry Pratchett reference, and what more [...]
Sika | August 3, 2007
I’m exceedingly grateful that Dan Savage now has a podcast and that Roger Ebert is writing his own movie reviews again. What can I say, I’m easy.
Sika | July 30, 2007
Afghan Woman by Lana Šlezi?
My mama brought me a copy of the July/August Mother Jones. In it is part of the photos taken by my new favorite photographer, Lana Šlezi?. This picture, and many others evoke something almost indescribable in me–their power is palpable and the subjects are both heartbreaking and heartbroken. She has photographed [...]
Sika | April 4, 2007
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Volcan Irazu – Crater 5, originally uploaded by firesika.
I’ve finally finished uploading, sorting, and adding stories to my Costa Rican photos, and they are now available in my Costa Rica 2007 collection on flickr. If [...]
Sika | March 4, 2007
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Self-portrait, originally uploaded by firesika.
I have new photos up on flickr. It isn´t even close to all of them, and I don´t have stories up yet, but if you want a preview, go looky. I´ll [...]
Sika | August 28, 2006
go watch the salon.com ad and watch this video clip of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart at the Emmy awards yesterday. Trust me, it’s worth it. I almost cried it was so funny. “Wolverine I could’ve lost to, he’s got claws for hands!”
I’ve been meaning to do a more substantive post for a week and [...]
Sika | May 11, 2006
A generous Planned Parenthood supporter has issued a Mother’s Day Challenge for the critical Stand with the States Campaign: all online donations will be matched — dollar for dollar, until they reach $50,000 — until midnight on Mother’s Day.
Please rise to the Mother’s Day Challenge. Your gift will be effectively doubled and you’ll help [...]
Sika | April 13, 2006
Go watch a preview of his new movie: An Inconvenient Truth. I’m all for a Gore/Feingold double bill for Prez/Vice Prez.
ETA: It would help if I put the link in: www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2718950
Sika | March 28, 2006
Real updating later, but in the meantime, look: it’s a Doctors without Borders fundraiser. . . and it involves FOOD.
It’s a blogger cookbook; the recipes look nummy. Looky here: www.lulu.com/ATCT
Sika | November 8, 2005
If you’re interested in ways in which to be more active, or having to be accountable in your ways in which to be more active, or in just chatting about it and not having to be accountable to anyone, or . . .
Come Join freakfitness
It’s not exactly fun, but it’s good for you [...]
Sika | October 20, 2005
Read this (yes, you have to watch an ad. It is totally worth it):
www.salon.com/tt/post/2005/10/19/posts_of_the_decade/index.html