this american life

I'm sitting here at home listening to this week's episode of This American Life. I frequently get angry at the radio or news as I hear about things that I find reprehensible. But this week's story is rapidly moving to the top of the list.

The episode, Shouting Across the Divide, is about a Muslim family living in the US. The mother was born in the US and married a Muslim Palestinian from the West Bank. They have two daughters. It talks about what happened to their family while living in an east coast suburb after September 11th. It is appalling what people are willing to inflict on fellow humans. And the role of the 4th grade teacher was even worse. When public schools foster and encourage religious discrimination and hate crimes, something is very wrong.

If you didn't catch the show this week, it will be available by podcast on the website next week.

it's snowing out

and awfully pretty right now. it's not cold enough for the snow to stick to pavement, but it's making the park across the street look quite calm and peaceful. a rather strange vision since it was almost 60 degrees about 12 hours ago. that's global warming for you.

dum de dum...what to write about today?

There doesn't seem to be much to write about of "importance" today, but then, as I've written before, blogs aren't just for writing about important things.

It is wonderfully warm today, around 57 degrees right now. Perfect biking weather. Although, I think it's supposed to snow this weekend, which all the skiiers are quite happy about.

D has been skiing twice this year, but I haven't been up at all. We're not traveling for the holidays this year (too much money, too stressful), so I think Christmas day will be spent skiing. And maybe we'll have dinner with some friends. Nice and relaxing.

And that's all from Salt Lake... (at least for today)