now posting regularly

Yeah, yeah.  Thursday again.  I'm not planning on making any changes to the regular bloggy schedule, but this makes two weeks in a row of my tardiness.  Please don't put it on my permanent record.

Here's what entertained me from the folks at NPR this week, through both my radio and their fabulous Facebook feed:

• "Label Those Vacation Photos!"-- This blog post about photography is just plain awesome.  If you do nothing else, please click through to see some amazing pictures from the last century.  

• "Here's Something You Don't Want To Know"-- From Krulwich Wonders, "an NPR sciencey blog," comes a story that's interesting and has the potential to really gross you out.  Click the picture on this one, too, but the reaction you have will be vastly different than the previous link.

• "Some Thieves Steal Much More Than Money"-- Really?  Who does these things?  When the NPR team asked folks to send their stories about strange things they've had stolen, they certainly got an outpouring.  

• "Is Believing In God Evolutionarily Advantageous?"-- For someone who keeps flipping back and forth between deism and atheism, this All Things Considered story was perfectly crafted- comprehensive and extremely thought-provoking.  What do you think??

• "5 Worries Parents Should Drop, And 5 They Shouldn't"-- Oh, Lenore Skenazy would LOVE LOVE this straight-forward post that's saying everything she has been articulating in her book and on her blog.  Helmets and seatbelts, folks!!

• "Feminist 'Franzenfreude' Over Raves For 'Freedom'"-- More on the "chick lit" vs. "literary fiction" debate from All Things Considered.  The money quote for me was this: "It's just interesting to sort of stack them up against a Lorrie Moore or against a Mona Simpson — who write books about families that are seen as excellent books about families," Weiner says. "And then to look at a Jonathan Franzen who writes a book about a family but we are told this is a book about America." 

Another week, another fantastic selection from the folks at NPR,