Fun Things I Have Recently Learned

Did you know that Barnes and Noble has the new service called Pick Me Up? When you find a book you want, you can choose the pick-me-up option to see if the store closest to you has it in stock. Then they will hold it for you and you can pick it up there and save not only shipping charges but a wasted trip to the store if they didn't have it. Cool!

Did you know that you can get podcasts of NPR's This American Life, Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me, Fresh Air and other shows for free and download them to your I-Pod or MP3 player? I never do housework anymore unless I'm plugged in listening to Ira Glass or Carl Castle.

Check out the Painted Prayer Book and The Advent Door, both blogs by artist Jan Richardson. Great stuff!

Good Magazine has a great Web site. This is a magazine my Dad got me a subscription to a couple of years back. But now they have this really fabulous on-line presence with lots of news of every day people who are making the world better and great ideas on what we all can do to make the world better. It's a feel-good site to visit.

In a recent study of couples who had separated, 58 percent of the men said they were happier after the separation. Eighty-five percent of the women said that they were happier. Think twice, men. Your chance of of post-separation bliss is a little iffy.