Where Do the Mermaids Stand?: Please welcome the latest addition

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Please welcome the latest addition

This blog has undertaken the reorganization and updating of the sidebar. Please note that the wedding pictures have been moved to the brand new Fun Links section (because this blog thinks that being married is fun and also that speaking in the third person is amusing to this blog and probably annoying to everybody else) and that links have been added to The Button and Homestarrunner, each of which this blog considers to be a fantastic way to waste time. The musically inclined portion of this blog's audience will appreciate The Music Genome Project.

(OK, so this blog has been reading too much Dave Barry, but this blog thinks there are few people more amusingly addictive.)

4 comments:

Becca said...: Heh. I apologize for making you a Homestarrunner fan.; 4/25/2006 9:34 PM
Monica said...: Nah. Not your fault. They got me while I was in Philly.; 4/26/2006 11:41 AM
Ben said...: Dave Barry. My personal hero. When I grow up, I want to be Dave Barry. Of course, that would involve stealing his identity and his genetic makeup. But this is AMERICA, darn it!

Live the dream!; 4/26/2006 5:17 PM
mel said...: "too much Dave Barry"? Is that possible? ;); 4/26/2006 6:50 PM

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Where do the mermaids stand?

The essence of this spirit was captured in a moving speech about tolerance given last year by the student body president of one of your sister colleges. She related the story by Robert Fulghum about a young pastor who, finding himself in charge of some very energetic children, hits upon a game called "Giants, Wizards and Dwarfs." "You have to decide now," the pastor instructed the children, "which you are ... a giant, a wizard or a dwarf?" At that, a small girl tugging at his pants leg, asked, "But where do the mermaids stand?" The pastor told her there are no mermaids, and she says, "Oh yes there are," she said. "I am a mermaid." Now this little girl knew what she was and she was not about to give up on either her identity or the game. She intended to take her place wherever mermaids fit into the scheme of things. Where do the mermaids stand ... All those who are different, those who do not fit the boxes and pigeonholes? "Answer that question," wrote Fulghum, "and you can build a school, a nation, or a whole world." ~~Barbara Bush Wellesley College Commencement Address, 1990

Where Do the Mermaids Stand?

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Please welcome the latest addition

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Where do the mermaids stand?

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