Nuggets #2

Here are a few nuggets from the WWW on a Saturday afternoon.

• I have spent this morning and early afternoon reading Learning the Argentine Tango, from its very beginning. In it, Caroline chronicles her life as a deaf single mother who decided to get dead serious about learning to tango. The tango becomes a metaphor for the way she makes her way through her memories, work, wishes, obstacles, dance lessons, times with her friends, experiences with men, and the demands of being a mother to two boys, aged fifteen and twelve. I highly recommend her work.
• At PostSecret, an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard, you can deliberate over what people want others to know, but have never told anyone themselves. For example:

• She calls herself a a stereotype, a middle-class, white, stay-at-home mom who spends most of her time nurturing others and very little time nurturing her own soul. But when she has time to write, the blogger found at In Search of Walden writes impassioned posts on everything from Hurricane Katrina to the meaning of life and death. She's very good.
• Do you feel like writing an obscene limerick or a naughty haiku about disgraced former Congressman Mark Foley (R-Florida)? Then read Dubya's Personal Blog and make your own contribution.
• At The Daily Puppy, you can look at sweet puppy pictures, vote on their cuteness, and read a short story about each puppy. Here's one of my favorites:
  

I'll return to Kellogg, Idaho matters tomorrow.