Signing with Kids

For a long time, I’d been curious about learning American Sign Language; I enjoy learning spoken languages, and something like ASL represented a different dimension to that.
However, unlike living in Italy, working in France and Holland, visiting Japan and taking Spanish in high school, I had no real impetus to get the process into gear. [...]

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I got bitten by a werecat on the full moon…

… and already I have this unaccountable urge to lick my own genitalia.
OK, perhaps that was already there.
And that joke was a desperate and perhaps a little pathetic attempt to make light of something which is very not.
During my birthday party on Saturday, I had my hand mauled by one of our cats, whom I [...]

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You say I’m a liberal like it’s a BAD thing

It’s a loaded word – these days, it’s usually loaded with poison and lobbed from a safe distance (e.g. Limbaugh’s microphone or Hannity’s desk), but is it really so bad to be liberal?
What does it even mean? Literally, it means that you allow stuff to happen. As such, it has become the favored antonym to [...]

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An important event for Pennsylvanians

No, not the Super Bowl. Props to the Steelers for what sounds like an epic victory, but I didn’t even know they were in it until a few days ago, because American “football” just doesn’t do it for me.
However, I have been eagerly awaiting the news out of Punxsutawney.
So, bring on Phil!

Yep, that’s a shadow. [...]

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I was nearly eaten by an alligator!*

*This is for a very broad definition of ‘nearly’ and a purely theoretical definition of ‘eaten’, but the alligator part is all true.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we briefly escaped the ice and snow of Rochester for a week in Fort Myers, Florida. Although more than 3 hours’ drive from Disney World, the [...]

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