Must Read

Pair this book with last years' Omnivore's Dilemma, and you've got yourself all the food-for-thought you can handle.

Kingsolver's book is amazing on audio, with her soft southern voice narrating, and the voices of her family members sounding in from time to time. The author makes her family's year of eating locally sound less like deprivation, and more like a culinary adventure.

Saints Alive!

I had a young woman, about 11 years old, come to me for help with her saint report. She's been assigned Agnes, and she needs to know how she died. OMG! Saints do not die in G-rated ways. Agnes devoted herself to God, and refused the attentions of a young man. Spurned, he ordered her to a brothel, and once she was no longer a virgin (it was illegal to kill virgins), her head was cut off.

Reticent to kill a virgin, but willing to send a girl-child into prostitution and then behead her.

On to RSS feeds today as I work through my 21 things.