http://jadekeller.com Eclectic ruminations on life, love, the universe and everything. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:25:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may recall last week I set out to make strawberry rhubarb cobbler, but alas was thwarted in the quest for rhubarb, and so we made a scrumptious blackberry cobbler instead. Well, what do you know, but I go to do my weekly grocery shopping and lo and behold, bright ... http://jadekeller.com/2010/03/scarlet-letter-cake/ "Women hold up half the sky." - Mao Tse-tung If someone like Mao could figure that out, why can't the rest of us? If you're wondering what I'm on about, check out my post on Half the Sky Or read about last weekend's Women In The World Conference. http://jadekeller.com/2010/03/you-capture-reaching/ "'If you cry out, we will kill you,' one of the told Dina. So she kept quiet as, one by one, the five men raped her. Then they held her down as one of them shoved the stick inside her. When Dina didn't come home, her father and friends bravely went ... http://jadekeller.com/2010/03/women-unbound-half-the-sky/ When I was a little girl, friendship meant we liked to play together. It meant sharing toys and playing mermaids in swimming pools. Into adolescence, it became about understanding. In the midst of all that teen angst, we sought out people who really got us. Then you get older and they ... http://jadekeller.com/2010/03/tell-it-to-me-tuesday-friendship/ A few days ago, I wrote a blog post expressing my deep sense of helplessness and futility when I look at the government and prominent leaders who are so completely out of touch with the reality of life their people face every day. And I expressed my sense that the ... http://jadekeller.com/2010/03/%e2%80%9ceducate-a-girl-and-she-will-do-the-rest-%e2%80%9d/ My sister-in-law and I (egad...that sounds so formal...can I just call ya V here?) do enjoy getting together on occasion to do some cooking and baking together. And, well, since she was raised in the South and I was born there, we do enjoy having a good ol' comfort throwback ... http://jadekeller.com/2010/03/blackberry-cobbler/ If you like what you see, please add me to your reader! http://jadekeller.com/2010/03/you-capture-quiet/ Oh no, they di-int, I thought when I came across this scrap of news. Mommy milk cheese. Yes, it's what you think it is. Cheese made from human breast milk. New York chef Daniel Angerer and his wife, who is nursing, happened to have an abundance of breast milk - ... http://jadekeller.com/2010/03/mommy-milk-cheese/ ...cynicism is often a mask for fear. It does not necessarily make us any wiser. It only means we have become afraid. I've learned that instead it takes much more courage to hope. To take a leap, even when you are standing on the edge of a cliff, knowing there is ... http://jadekeller.com/2010/03/titmt-ive-learned/ “But his kind will always lose in the end. I know this, and now I know why. Whether it’s wife or nation they occupy, their mistake is the same: they stand still, and their stake moves underneath them….Even a language won’t stand still. A territory is only possessed for a ... http://jadekeller.com/2010/03/the-road-we-take/