One City

Cassie’s cute kid videos remind me of a random act of kindness I heard about a few weeks ago via the internet. A four-year-old girl who was heartbroken over the death of her dog wrote the following letter (with help from her mom): “Dear God, Will you please take care of my dog? She died…

Hey everyone, These made me laugh, so I thought I would share them… Kids are cool. Love, cassmaster P

Let’s start of the post with some fun clips of the Day-long Arts Retreat on August 23rd, 2008:

This past Saturday the ID Project had its first ever day-long arts retreat. It was an event that I had been looking forward to for a while, so much so that I put off taking my assistant teacher certification exam until the next test date in October so that I wouldn’t miss the retreat. How’s…

In 1996, when I was nineteen, Parliament-Funkadelic landed the mothership on the mall of the university campus where I lived, just outside of Washington, DC. It was a free show on a warm spring night, open to the general public, so there was a racially and economically diverse crowd of about 30,000 people in attendance.…

Stillman Brown’s post last week about blogging got me thinking about media in general, and I wanted to write a post in conversation with it. The fact that I can do that alone says a lot about what so amazing and new about blogging. The fact that you can then converse with me about my…

A few weeks ago, I freaked out…on a cat. Granted, the cat was being an asshole- yes, cats can be assholes, but my reaction caught me completely off guard. I experienced a sudden surge of anger and it obviously wasn’t about the cat…or just about the cat. Upon closer examination, it was probably about something…

ARE WE ALWAYS MAKING BABIES? My Take On Interdependence. Saturday Guest Blog by Imprfectionist Not long ago, a friend of mine, a former girlfriend, sent me a birth announcement. She had recently delivered a baby girl, and I was on the mass e-mail blast she sent to broadcast the happy occasion. This friend had once…

This summer I resolved to save a little money by cooking meals at home instead of going out all the time. Breakfast was easy: Cheerios, soymilk, banana, done. But when it came time to shop for meals at the grocery store — and not just the frozen dinner kind — I was hit with a…

Stillman Brown is furrowing his brow in a literary manner. Candorville, a webcomic by Darrin Bell, says it perfectly. Have you followed the link? Honestly and truly? Good. In college I decided to be a writer, to just go for it, balls to the wall (sounds painful, whatever it means), and put all my energy…

More from Beliefnet and our partners