I've seen those celebrity look-alike things posted on other people's blogs, and just never bothered to do it myself, but I saw one today that was kind of intriguing, so I did one.

Very flattering, huh?

Watch me morph into Dan Rather!

MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities

Oh my gosh. I had saved this in Bloglines for a week or so, and just now watched it. Wow. It made me cry, but we all know how I can be, and it's not sad, it's just amazing.

Christian the Lion - The View From Here

Interesting article about the relationship between journaling and emotional health: ? How Psychotherapy and Journaling Help - Psych Central News

“If you ask people who are really sad why they are writing in a journal, they are not likely to say it’s because they think this is a way to make themselves feel better,” Lieberman said.

“People don’t do this to intentionally overcome their negative feelings; it just seems to have that effect. Popular psychology says when you’re feeling down, just pick yourself up, but the world doesn’t work that way. If you know you’re trying to pick yourself up, it usually doesn’t work — self-deception is difficult.

“Because labeling your feelings doesn’t require you to want to feel better, it doesn’t have this problem.”

Link from Notebookism

My recent unfortunate tragedy:

News 19 - Breaking News - Overland Park, KS News First

Go vote for my friend Jennifer Stumpf -- she's a finalist in the "Bead Star" competition. Her entry is the first one on the "Pearls" page.

I think these two articles about the Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto are wondeful:

Part 1

Part 2