Hi, I'm Joe and I'm a media junkie.
I'm not sure if I have a problem (or if I'm just in denial) but every day I consume copious amounts of media. I subscribe to one daily newspaper, 12 magazines, and over 300 RSS feeds in order to get my fix of ideas, news, and opinions.
I'm not sure how it happened but I do remember that I wasn't always an addict. Five years ago I was only an recreational consumer of newspapers and magazines and my online reading was limited to Slate, Salon, and Arts & Letters Daily. Even when I worked as a newspaper editor my intake was modest, relegated to skimming a handful of daily newspapers and weekly publications. On occasion, whenever I could find the time, I would spend a leisurely Saturday at the library catching up on my periodical reading. But my media habit was always modest and manageable.
Then in 2003 I started this blog and my ingestion of media increased dramatically. "Being informed" felt less like an activity of leisure and more like a labor of necessity. I started making daily visits to the 20, 30, and eventually 50 blogs listed on my blogroll. I subscribed to my local paper and bought magazines more regularly. I soon began reading a dozen online periodicals and newspapers.
Still, my media routine was constrained by time, money, and my stubborn resistance to change. For instance, during my first three years as a blogger I remained a blogroll purist. Every night I would spend hours trawling through the 50 blogs on my blogroll. That was the proper manner for a blogger. Real bloggers, I would snobbishly contend, read blogs not feeds.
Then one day, on a whim, I decided to test Google Reader and both my blogging and my media consumption changed forever. The RSS reader entirely changed the paradigm of blogging by reducing the attention cost I paid for each blog. In economic terms, the cost per post in processing time has dropped considerably, allowing me to spend more of my attention on a greater number of blogs.
The change was akin to trading in a horse and buggy for a Porsche. When I started using Google Reader in late 2006 I added the 50 blogs on my blogroll to my daily reading list. By May 2007 the number had increased to 130 feeds; today the count is up to 315.
Another paradigmic shift occurred when my friend and enabler David Wayne informed me that "you can get magazine subscriptions at ridiculously low prices on eBay." I stocked up on a number of cheap, advertising-driven publications (a 3-year subscription to Wired for $10!) but soon realized that this merely stoked the hunger. Soon, I was buying magazines by the armful to read on my 2-hour per day commute on the train.
It wasn't until today, though, that I took inventory of how much text-based media I actually consume on a daily and weekly basis. Here is the breakdown:
Daily: The Washington Post
Weekly: Entertainment Weekly, The Examiner, The Hill, The Onion, People, Politico, WORLD, U.S News and World Reports, The Weekly Standard
Monthly (subscription): The Atlantic, Computer Shopper, Fast Company, First Things, Inc., National Review, Psychology Today, Readers' Digest, SEED, Wired
Quarterly: Comment, SALVO, The Critical, The New Atlantis, The Wilson Quarterly,
Occasionally: The American, The American Conservative, The American Spectator, Business 2.0, Christianity Today, Chronicles, Dwell, The Economist, Foreign Policy, The Hedgehog Review, MAKE, The New Republic, Newsweek, Policy Review, Real Simple, Reason, Time
RSS Feeds (daily): ... and his ministers a flame of fire; 43 Folders; A Thinking Reed; Abided Knowing; Acton Institute PowerBlog; Acts 29 Blog; Adrian's Blog; alastair.adversaria; Albert Mohler's Blog; Ales Rarus; Allthings2all; AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online; AmericanHeritage.com; AmSpec Blog; Ankle Biting Pundits; AnotherThink; Anthony Bradley's blog; Armavirumque; Ars Technica; TPM Online; Arts & Letters Daily; Back of the Envelope; Beltway Blogroll; Better Living: Thoughts from Mark Daniels; Between Two Worlds; Bible Belt Blogger; blog.talkingphilosophy.com; Blogometer; Blogotional; blogs4God / Popular Posts; Bluey Blog; Boing Boing; bookforum.com; The Economist -- Books; Books & Culture; The Economist -- Books and arts; Boston Globe -- Ideas section; Boston Review; Boundless Line; BPS Research Digest; Brainiac; Brijit; Broken Masterpieces; The Campaign Standard; Captain's Quarters; Cerulean Sanctum; Challies Dot Com; ChangeThis Newsletter; Chaos & Old Night; ChoosingTomorrow - Nigel Cameron's blog; Christianity Today Liveblog; Christianity Today Magazine; ChristianThinker.net; Church of the Masses; City Journal Eye on the News and Reviews; City Journal in Print; City of God; collision detection; Commentary; Common Grounds Online; Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins; connexions; Contrarian Views; Cool Tools; CounterCulture; Cranach: The Blog of Veith; Creating Passionate Users; Crunchy Con; Danger Room; dangerous idea; David Frum; DeMossNewsPond.com; Dilbert; Dmitry Chernikov's Blog; Doug Ross @ Journal; Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life; The Economist -- Economics; Et tu?; Eternal Perspectives; Eunomia; EurekAlert! - Breaking News; Evangelical Perspective; Ex Nihilo; eyeon08.com; Facts, Ideas and Logic; Family Scholars Blog; Feiler Faster; FIDE-O; Fides Quaerens Intellectum; First Drafts - The Prospect magazine blog; FIRST THINGS: On the Square; Flash Point; Fraters Libertas; Freakonomics Blog; Gadgetopia; Geeks Guide To Getting Things Done; GetReligion; gideonstrauss.com; Good Magazine Blog; Google Tutor & Advisor; GospelDrivenLife; Greg Mankiw's Blog; Hackszine.com; Happy Mills; He Lives; HolyCoast.com; Honest to Blog; Houtlust :: nonprofit advertising :: social campaigns; How to Change the World; Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog; I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?; Iconia; IMAO; In the Agora; Instapundit.com; Intellectuelle; internetmonk.com; Irish Calvinist; It Takes A Church...; J-Walking; James Fallows; Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up; Jeff the Baptist; Jennifer Roback Morse; Jesus Creed; JIMMY AKIN.ORG; JOLLYBLOGGER; Jonathan Martin's Blog; Knight Science Journalism Tracker; kottke.org remaindered links; KyleSmithOnline.com; La Shawn Barber's Corner; LA Times - National Politics; Leithart.com; lifehack.org; Lifehacker; Lunch over IP; Maggie's Farm; Malcolm Gladwell's Blog; Marc Ambinder; Marginal Revolution; Mark Byron; Mark Driscoll's blog; Matthew Yglesias; Maverick Philosopher; Megan McArdle; Mere Orthodoxy; Michael Barone; michellemalkin.com; Micro Persuasion; Middlebrow; Mike Huckabee for President; Mike-Huckabee - Google News; Mirror of Justice; MIT Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology; moreintelligentlife.com; Mouw's Musings; The New Yorker -- Movies; Neatorama; New Covenant; The Economist -- News analysis and views; No Left Turns; Notes from a Byzantine-Rite Calvinist; Of First Importance; Official Google Reader Blog; On Journeying with those in Exile; One Eternal Day; The New Yorker; Open Culture; O'Reilly Radar; orgtheory.net; OUPblog; Outside The Beltway; Parableman; Parchment and Pen; Patrick Ruffini; Per caritatem; Personal Development with Ririan Project; TheOptimizedLife; Pick the Brain: An Analytical Approach to Self Improvement; PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts; ABC News-Political Radar; Politico.com: Politics '08; USA Today -- Pop Candy; Postmodern Conservative; Presentation Zen; ProBlogger Blog Tips; Productivity501; ProfessorBainbridge.com; Prosthesis; Pseudo-Polymath; Pyromaniacs; QandO; Ragesoss 2.02; Reason Magazine - Hit & Run; Reasoned Audacity; RedBlueChristian; Redstate - Conservative News and Community; Reformed Chicks Blabbing; Reformissionary; The New Yorker -- Reporting & Essays; rhettsmith.com; Right Wing News; RogerEbert Headlines; Roger's Rules; Ross Douthat; sacra doctrina; Salon; ScienceDaily News; ScrappleFace; Seth's Blog; SharperIron; Siris; Slacker Manager; Slate Magazine; Slate Magazine - Ad Report Card; Slate Magazine - Human Guinea Pig; Slate Magazine - Kausfiles; Slate Magazine - Politics; SmartChristian.com; Smashing Magazine; Social Science Statistics Blog; Spiked; Stand to Reason Blog; Stephen Law; StephenBainbridge.com; steve-olson.com; stevenberlinjohnson.com; Surfeited with Dainties; Swarming Media; Talking Out Of Turn; TallSkinnyKiwi; Tapscott's Copy Desk; TCSDaily.com; TED Blog; The A-Team Blog; The American Scene; The Anchoress; The Art of Manliness; The Brody File - CBN News Blog; The Buck Stops Here; The Campaign Spot; The Christian Mind; The Cool Hunter - Ads; The Cool Hunter - Books; The Cool Hunter - Design; The Corner; The Daily Dish; the david all group; The Dawn Patrol; The Dawn Treader; The Evangelical Ecologist; The Genius in All of Us; The Great Beyond; The Marshian Chronicles; The New Criterion; The New Republic Weblogs: Open University; The Page; The Point; The Presurfer; The Right House; The Roebuck Report; The Serif - Your daily dose of design inspiration; The Shepherd's Scrapbook; The Swamp; The Technium; The Thinklings; The Tom Peters Weblog; the view from her; The Wilson Quarterly; TheDieline.com; Theoblogical; Thinking Christian; Thinking Christian; this is an adventure; Through a Glass Darkly; TIME: Swampland; TipMonkies; To-Done; Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments; Triablogue; TruePravda; Truth Observed; Unclutterer; Uncommon Descent; Verge; View From The Pew; Vox Popoli; Vulture; Web Worker Daily; Weblog of Liz Mair; What I Saw in America; Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle; Wired Cool Apps; Wired Culture; Wired Games Without Frontiers; Wired The Luddite; Wired The Web; Wired Top Stories; Wittingshire; WorldMagBlog; WorldwideStandard.com; Writing Tools; Yesterdayishere; Your Daily Art; Ypulse; zen habits.
Admittedly, this is a lot. But is it too much? Am I out of the norm or do many people read as many blogs and magazines as I do?
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Well, I can't say I do three hundred. Probably more like seventy five. I end up going through about five hundred entries or so a day. The way I sort through it is to skim headlines, maybe read the first few sentences of an article that looks important, and devote my extended to what I'm interested in. I still get the crux of what's going on and don't fry my brain with the sheer volume of trivialities.
posted on 02.22.2008 2:57 AM2
I'd probably be where you are if I didn't have a wife to complain about the amount of time I spend on my laptop. And I'm glad she does... It does feel like it has the pull of an addiction sometimes. You think you "could stop anytime you want to," Joe? :-)
posted on 02.22.2008 6:47 AM3
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Sigh, my Google Reader is rarely is below 1000+ anymore yet just clicking the 'mark all as read' makes me feel guilty.
posted on 02.22.2008 8:42 AM5
You people are in serious need of help.
David Marcoe posting at 2:57AM? 1,000 feeds?
I'll bet none of you could walk away for a month cold turkey.
Y'all need to get lives.
I'm not kidding, btw. I hope your lives don't fall apart...
posted on 02.22.2008 8:58 AM6
Nah, it's not too much, Joe! And hey (he says, in a bit of shameless self-promotion), what's one more blog to add on?
http://dontdrinkthekingswine.blogspot.com
I'd be honored if you add me to your blogroll and to your feeds! :o)
posted on 02.22.2008 9:03 AM7
how good are you at keyboard shortcuts for pounding through those feeds? If you're using a mouse, I don't know how you do it!
google reader keyboard shortcuts
and I didn't see my blog on your feed-list...Help My Unbelief
posted on 02.22.2008 9:29 AM8
Hey, I'm just happy to be in there somewhere. I can understand your addiction, Joe. I don't care much for magazines, but I peruse way too many news and blog websites (thank you Bloglines).
posted on 02.22.2008 9:34 AM9
That is why I quit blogging. Blogging had turned into a full-time job. It was just too much work. The final stake through the heart came when I started teaching myself to play the guitar. I don't know how you keep it up. Besides, I like reading books too much - currently about four in progress.
posted on 02.22.2008 10:27 AM10
I'll bet none of you could walk away for a month cold turkey.
My favorite concept I heard recently was 'email bankruptcy'. That is when you just give up and erase all the hundreds of emails in your inbox and start over with an empty box and try to keep it that way. I sort of did this at work, trying to keep my unread emails below 50 every day and my inbox no more than a few screens full...but it's hard.
Very soon Google Reader will get a variation on treatment with their all powerful "mark all read" button.....sort of like a self destruct.
posted on 02.22.2008 11:42 AM11
Zen Habits is the last blog on Joe's feed list.
Ahh the sweet smell of irony.
My own daily reading would be a much smaller list, but I tend to go for quality rather than quantity.
posted on 02.22.2008 12:30 PM12
For what it's worth I am fast becoming a comment junkie here at EO, though.
posted on 02.22.2008 12:32 PM13
Joe-
You do need to get a life. I have no idea how you find the time to read all those magazines, blogs, books, and then write for your own blog.
I subscribe to one daily newspaper (Wall Street Journal) and two magazines (National Review & First Things) and with books and blogging thrown in, I sometimes have a hard time keeping up. I used to get The Economist too, but reached the point where something had to give.
posted on 02.22.2008 1:28 PM14
Lent?
posted on 02.22.2008 2:47 PM15
As your enabler I wanted to let you know I have arranged a joint counseling session for the two of us next Thursday. To help you not forget I'll be sure and text you, and leave a message for you on Grand Central. I've also set up joint calendars for us with Google Calendar, 30 boxes and Backpack. Don't forget to check my Twitter feed every hour for updates and I'll be sure and call you to see how you are doing on Skype, Googletalk and Gizmo. The counselor has free wifi so we can IM each other on any of the five IM services I subscribe to while we are in his waiting room waiting for our appointment.
posted on 02.22.2008 3:09 PM16
you can get magazine subscriptions at ridiculously low prices on eBay
This I did not know. Thanks!
I checked it out, and now I'll have no free time for the next three years. Great tip!
posted on 02.25.2008 10:00 AM17
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PASTORS WILL PREACH ON SUNDAY IN TEXAS AND OHIO SO,,,,,THIS IS MY MAX- OUT- FOR- MIKE- URGENT MESSAGE.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... DEAR RANGERS AND FRIENDS
PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THIS LETTER (BELOW) THEN E- MAIL TO CHURCHES
IN TIME FOR SUNDAY'S
SERMONS, THEN VOTING
TO TEXAS CHURCHES FIRST, THEN OHIO....ON SAT, MARCH 4
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THE LETTER:
DEAR FRIENDS:
IN LIGHT OF RECENT POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS, AND KNOWING HOW FAITHFUL YOU ARE TO GOD, FAMILY, AND FREEDOM, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO PLEASE EXAMINE MIKE HUCKABEE'S INCOMPARABLE, IMMACULATE, RECORD ON MY BEHALF,... AND CONSIDER HIM AS YOUR CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT !
PLEASE READ THIS, EVEN IF YOU HAVE ALREADY VOTED.
A VOTE (OR FINANCIAL HELP) FOR MIKE HUCKABEE IS A STEP TO PRESERVE AND IMPROVE AMERICA ..IT IS ESSENTIALLY A VOTE FOR ALL WE HOLD DEAR ! YOU KNOW I AM USUALLY NOT POLITICAL, BUT TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT WE AMERICANS CAN ALL LOSE IF WE AREN'T MOTIVATED AND INFORMED, AND CAREFUL:
HILLARY WANTS TO TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHT TO EVEN SPEAK ABOUT ABORTION(cnn.com, issue :abortion) AND REINSTATE HER HUSBAND'S (BILL'S) VETO BY ALLOWING THE KILLING OF AMERICAN BABIES WHEN THEY ARE HALF IN AND HALF OUT OF A WOMAN'S BIRTH CANAL (PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION). PRESIDENT BUSH STOPPED THIS OVERTLY-HORRIFIC EVIL ACT.
SHE WILL BRING IT BACK, IN ADDITION WANTS A BILL PREVENTING FREEDOM OF SPEECH. ANY TALK, COUNSEL OR HELP FOR THOSE WHO ARE CONSIDERING ABORTION WOULD BE ILLEGAL !!!!.UNLESS YOU WERE A GOVERNMENT ENTITY (REVERSE GLOBAL-GAG RULE)..... WOULD THIS AFFECT OUR PRIESTS IN CONFESSION ? (CHECK OUT CANDIDATES VIEWS ON ISSUES ON CNN.COM)....ESPECIALLY ABORTION !
BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA : "THE TALK,TALK,TALK-SHOW HOST", JUNIOR SENATOR , WHO HAS BEEN "APPROVED" OF ,BEING "UNPATRIOTIC", AND REFUSED TO HONOR OUR SIMPLEST TOKENS OF RESPECT (OUR SACRED AMERICAN TRADITIONS), WANTS THE SAME RIGHT TO KILL AMERICAN OFFSPRING (WITH PARTIAL BIRTH ABORTION ). HE ALSO STATES THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO "PARTNER WITH
IRAQ" (REAL quote FROM SUPER TUESDAY-).... HE IS "GONNA" CHANGE THINGS. UNLESS, AS HE STATED, VOTERS ELECT SOMEONE ELSE TO RUN "THIS THING". (HIS REFERENCE TO AMERICA).
McCain HAS BEEN WISHY WASHY IN GENERAL ON SOME KEY ISSUES. HE SLIPPED TODAY (FEB 29) AND CALLED HIMSELF A LIBERAL..ONE MUST WONDER, THOUGH...... SINCE HE PARTNERS WITH /HAS THE BACKING OF, A MAN WHO HATES CATHOLICS AND CALLS THEIR CHURCH A "WHORE", AND "ANTI-CHRIST". ..............
IN ADDITION,ON THE RIGHT-TO-LIFE. THIS "MODERATE"( MC CAIN) HAS STATED THAT HE BELIEVED IN STEM CELL RESEARCH (USING ABORTED BABIES IN PETRI DISHES FOR RESEARCH). THIS IS HOW THE NAZIS PROCEEDED!
POSSIBLY ROBBING VOTES FROM MIKE HUCKABEE, TOO... (IN WASHINGTON STATE) BY NOT DEMANDING THAT THEY COUNT ALL THE VOTES ?!? YES, SENATOR JOHN MC CAIN, IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE A HERO FOR HIS SACRIFICES. THIS IS IRREFUTABLE. YET WE MUST KNOW WHERE HE STANDS NOW. NOT JUST ON THE WAR IN IRAQ. CURRENTLY,HE IS REFUSING, (BY IGNORING A PETITION), TO DEBATE MIKE HUCKABEE IN A REPUBLICAN DEBATE.( I SPOKE WITH THE PERSON WHO BOOKED THE NATIONAL TV NETWORK, YESTERDAY). MR. MC CAIN HAS YET TO REPLY (TO THE PETITION).
THIS, ALL OF IT, IS TOO REMINISCENT OF GEORGE ORWELL'S BOOK , 'ANIMAL FARM'..
2008 IS A YEAR FOR "CHANGE" ALRIGHT...BUT WHAT KIND, AND HOW IS IT BEING MARKETED IN ELECTION 2008 ?
WHEN THE GOVERNMENT DECIDES WHO SHOULD LIVE AND DIE, WHO SHOULD SPEAK OR NOT, AND ABORTED BABIES CAN BE "FARMED" FOR RESEARCH,WE ARE SURELY GOING TO "CHANGE" !
AS GOVERNOR MIKE HUCKABEE SO WISELY AND ELOQUENTLY STATED: "GOVERNMENT DID NOT GIVE LIFE, AND GOVERNMENT CANNOT TAKE IT AWAY".
A PRUDENT MAN, AN HONEST CANDIDATE, IN D.C.! ? ! HELL WOULD FORBID !
DO YOU KNOW MIKE HUCKABEE HAS READ PROVERBS EVERY DAY SINCE HE WAS IN HIS TEENS? I CONTEND,YOU CANNOT READ THE WORDS OF KING SOLOMON (PROVERBS) EVERY DAY AND NOT BE WISE.
JESUS SAID: "BY THEIR FRUITS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM."
HE IS PRO-GOD, PRO-LIFE, PRO-AMERICA AND PRO-FAMILY...
HUCKABEE, WANTS TO "TRIM THE FAT". GO WITH A MAN WHO ISN'T PLAGUED BY SCANDAL OR SQUANDERED MONEY ! (HILLARY CAMPAIGN-131 MIL, CAMPAIGN HUCK-9 MIL )
ELECTION 2008 ...JUST FINE...BUSINESS AS USUAL...YOU'RE RIGHT... IT'S NOT BAD...IT'S HORRIFIC!
WANT A REAL CHOICE? VOTE HUCKABEE IN 08 !!!!!, IF YOU ALREADY VOTED..DO YOURSELF A MAJOR FAVOR, JUST CHECK HIM OUT AT HIS WEBSITES, BLOGS, AND FACE BOOKS (ON THE COMPUTER) AND ON "YOU TUBE" THE COMPUTER-ACCESSED "VIDEOS"...BUT DON'T DELAY , DO IT TODAY! . HE IS ROCK SOLID !
HE IS THE TRUE CONSERVATIVE. OH, BY THE WAY, MC CAIN IS TRYING TO IGNORE A HUGE PETITION FOR A REPUBLICAN DEBATE WITH THE REMAINING CANDIDATES...EVEN THOUGH HIS REPUBLICAN CONSTITUENTS WOULD LOVE ONE !
THIS UPCOMING VOTE IN TEXAS IS CRUCIAL ...TEXAS CAN CHANGE THE TIDE AND EVERYTHING IN THIS ELECTION, TOWARDS MIKE HUCKABEE ,AND REALLY SAVE THIS COUNTRY!
WHEN COMMUNISTIC SYMPATHIZERS (read:OBAMAS COMMUNIST TIES,WIKIPEDIA), AND NAZI-LIKE TACTICS RULE THE DEMOCRATS AND THE REPUBLICANS SUPPORT STEM-CELL (EXPERIMENTS ON HUMAN FETUSES)...WHEN WE
HAVE NO VIABLE, TRUE CONSERVATIVE VOICE IN "JOHN MC CAIN AND COMPANY" ... THEN WE MUST VOTE AND HELP MIKE HUCKABEE , OR WE WILL HAVE HELL TO PAY.
HUCKABEE---CONSISTENTLY PRO-AMERICA, PRO-FREEDOM AND PRO-LIFE.
GOD DID GIVE US LIFE..LET US GO FORTH TO HELP HIS TRUE SERVANT, MR MIKE HUCKABEE MAKE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE !!
PS: YOU KNOW, I HAVE NEVER BEEN POLITICALLY-INCLINED BEFORE THIS ELECTION..BUT I BELIEVE WITH ALL MY HEART AND SOUL THAT EVERYTHING WE VALUE MAY BE A STAKE IF WE ALL DON'T HELP MIKE HUCKABEE GET THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION !
HE IS A WISE AND HONORABLE MAN AND THE ONLY REMAINING CANDIDATE WHO HAS EVER EVEN GOVERNED !! (VOTED AS A TOP GOVERNOR -10 YEARS) REMEMBER THE ALAMO ???? ---AMERICANS OVERPOWERED 40 TO ONE ! REMEMBER WHO WON?
GO TEXAS ! GO TEXANS !*
VOTE HUCKABEE! GET THE WORD TO THE PRIESTS, PAPERS AND PREACHERS, AND PARADERS ! PROCLAIM IT FROM THE PULPIT...PRAY IT IN THE PEWS! AMEN ! STICK IT IN THE HYMNAL BOOKS .
CIRCULATE THIS LETTER OR ONE OF YOUR OWN ...WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO REALLY HELP THIS MAN, HELP US, IF HEAVEN WILL HAVE IT'S WAY.
PEACE BE WITH YOU,
BONNIE BUCKLAW-ORTIZ
GOD'S KINGDOM COME. GOD'S WILL BE DONE. ON EARTH,AS IT IS IN
posted on 03.01.2008 2:01 AMHEAVEN---------------------------------