http://www.innerturtle.com Come and find food for your inner turtle. Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:06:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the ceremony we used to wed Kate and Kevin :) After the processional the wedding party is in front, facing forward. WELCOME Welcome family and friends. We are gathered here, in these beautiful Georgia mountains, to join Kate Elizabeth Daiger and Kevin Robert Chasse in a life of mutual commitment and ... http://www.innerturtle.com/congratulations-kate-and-kevin/ Today I listened to a podcast episode of This American Life from away back in 2001 that was rebroadcast in February. The setup was great and it pulled me away from cleaning and laundry and FB and Yammer and everything else I was doing. For the first time in a ... http://www.innerturtle.com/the-house-on-the-lake/ I was talking to Andrea the other day about Facebook posts and how they should be upbeat, relevent, and generally give people a chuckle. Therefore I'll start off by saying that, although I'm only writing this so I can link to it from Facebook, I'm not actually writing it on ... http://www.innerturtle.com/well-march-on/ Good evening. A lot of people have been getting to know each other this weekend, and a common question has been “how do you know Donna?” or “how do you know Mike?” A lot of you may have heard that I’m Mike’s best friend – we met in 2nd grade. Some ... http://www.innerturtle.com/congratulations-donna-and-mike/ I went to church this morning. I've been dabbling in going to church for a few years but it's hard for me to find a place that I'm comfortable. I think part of the reason is that most people go to church as a family. That really came into focus ... http://www.innerturtle.com/what-are-we-against/ I don't often respond to a message board, article, or blog in the comment section. It's too easy to get lost in the throng of off-topic, uninformed, or mean-spirited posts. This morning when I had a little time to kill because of work however, I came across an interesting article. ... http://www.innerturtle.com/the-publics-responsibility-for-their-own-ip/ Away back in the day, my parents got me a card for high school graduation. For about 10 years, wherever I lived I put it up on my wall like a poster. I still have most of the message memorized and while I was on the treadmill this morning, I ... http://www.innerturtle.com/who-you-come-to-be-along-the-way/ I've actually been mulling this question over and over in my head for months now. This evening I found an article on Digg (O'Reilly's Ark: Gay marriage leads to goat, dolphin marriage) that I think helped me see a little more clearly. This frustrates me because we have experts discussing ... http://www.innerturtle.com/is-gay-marriage-a-slippery-slope/ Well, brush fires ... nothing serious at all (at this point, thank God.) Actually, it's not the fire at all, it's the smoke. It started this morning. I've gotten in the habit of watching a bit of the local news while I eat my breakfast. I get most of my news ... http://www.innerturtle.com/florida-on-fire/ One of my favorite things about Christmas has always been Christmas Eve. My coworkers took notice this year when I said that there are only two days of the year that I won't work: my birthday and Christmas Eve after 5:00 p.m. (So much so that Shawn was noticeably surprised ... http://www.innerturtle.com/happy-birthday-baby-jesus/