travail

talk about the travail of giving birth

extremely painful, that's the first words come up to my head when i think about childbirth. when i was very young, i said i wouldn't have bady cuz it's painful. childish i know.but i HATE pain. i...

Remembering the Sixties

One of the dafter assertions is that if you can remember the sixties, you weren’t there. Some of us who managed to get through them without ever having one’s mind bent or consciousness altered by...

Tying The Knot

My brother just got engaged. He has been dating his fiancée for about six years and decided that it was time throw bachelorhood to the wind and do it. I can hear the male readers thinking, “Why,”...

Metro Round-Up: Drop in Spending, AT&T's Plans, Brave Face from Wireless Silicon Valley

From this week's MuniWireless conference in Santa Clara, Calif., three bits of news: The AP reports on the latest State of the Market Report from MuniWireless, which dropped the estimate for US...

I've learned something new from St. Augustine

Folks,I've been reading lately Peter Brown's excellent biography of St.Augustine, and I encountered this passage from his Confessions(Confessions VIII, V, 10), that caught my...