http://carrie.carpeannum.com Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:16:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am going to just launch in here without all the hoopla about not writing forever. Sydney encouraged me to write a blog, specifically so we could track the slow descent (or rise) to hippiedom. This would be a good place, we thought, to track the length of ... http://carrie.carpeannum.com/2008/09/14/true-confessions-about-hippiedom/ There is an actual blizzard going on outside. A real live, whole city closed down, I’ll-remember-this-forever-because-I’ve-shoveled-so-friggin-much Blizzard. After being sent home from work, being pushed out of the parking lot, and the above-mentioned shoveling, I came inside and opened the curtains for the first time since I discovered ... http://carrie.carpeannum.com/2008/02/06/yes-ma-we-know-were-grounded/ On our way to Kopp's, home of some of Milwaukee's best frozen custard, we wondered when the US citizens would be alleviated of some of the confusing conversions between pints and quarts and gallons when ordering their custard. We figured a typical conversation at Kopp's during the transition to ... http://carrie.carpeannum.com/2007/05/13/america-on-the-metric-system/ The Synergistic Effect: When the combined effect of several forces operating is greater than the sum of the separate ... http://carrie.carpeannum.com/2007/01/20/the-synergistic-effect/ [audio:Miserere.mp3] http://carrie.carpeannum.com/2006/11/19/allegris-miserere/ Do you love, without a doubt, living in the Information age? Or do you wonder of its dangers, like if we have lost connection with our inherent wisdom in favor of having a glorious array of facts and opinions at our fingertips that may or may not be applicable to ... http://carrie.carpeannum.com/2006/10/20/google-this-world-some-wisdom/ Dandelions a child plays in a spring field the sun shining and the grass wet with dew a patch of yellow flowers catches her eye the happy, fleshy heads staring up at her and she smiles. she plucks a few with sheer delight to bring home to her mother who loves them because they are a gift and the plant ... http://carrie.carpeannum.com/2006/10/20/how-i-wrote-of-prejudice-as-a-child/ Did anyone read that book as a teenager? Judy Blume was the savior of pre-pubescents when I was one. I'm actually not sure I read that particular book, though Judy Blume was part of the canon in some capacity. I think I went straight from A Wrinkle ... http://carrie.carpeannum.com/2006/10/20/hello-god-its-me-margaret/ As I struggle to get comfortable in front of a desktop while mourning the loss of my laptop to the Geek Squad, I am pondering the interview with a young female theoretical physicist at Harvard I just read. It appears she is on the brink of actually discovering the ... http://carrie.carpeannum.com/2006/08/02/the-theoretical-physicist-and-the-shaman/ It has been over 2 months since I last wrote and I'm not sure where to begin so why not start with the little pint of peak-season plump organic raspberries I just bought and have nearly finished off...the taste brings me back to berry-picking on my aunt Jo and uncle ... http://carrie.carpeannum.com/2006/07/15/the-peak-of-raspberry-season/