julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Nov 10, 2009, 2:15 pm
Today is the birthday of my beloved Corps. Born in 1775 at a tavern in Philadelphia. Watching the video brings back so many memories of being in the Marine Corps. Much of what was said in the first ...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Nov 3, 2009, 12:26 pm
So a few months ago, The Deistette and I had the AC die at the house. What a nightmare. I don’t know how people lived here in Houston before air conditioning. Well, we had a guy come out and h...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Oct 27, 2009, 12:53 pm
I remember when Little Fawn (that’s my daughter’s nickname) was a baby she did something similar to what this kid does on this video. This one has been making the rounds on the internet s...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Oct 20, 2009, 4:58 pm
I listen to AM talk radio every now and then and one thing I’ve noticed about the very conservative hosts is that when it comes to the environment… namely, global warming, they all claim i...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Oct 17, 2009, 11:45 am
From Wikipedia: Diwali or Dīpāvali (Sanskrit: a row of lamps[1]) is a significant festival in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, and an official holiday in India.[2] Adherents of these religi...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Oct 16, 2009, 5:02 pm
So in my last post I talked about how I changed my name about a year ago from my birth name to, how most of you know me here…. Julian Zamora. This post as you can see from the title is an expan...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Oct 7, 2009, 4:51 pm
Blog peep o’ mine, Lazy Buddhist bestowed upon me the Honest Scrap Award. I am quite humbled that she would do this and, honestly (pun somewhat intended) a bit ashamed. I haven’t been co...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Oct 2, 2009, 10:12 am
This was supposed to go out last Friday. I got so nervous I forgot to post it. I’ll follow up, coincidentally with the Honest Scrap Award post in response to Lazy Buddhist, who bestowed it upo...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Sep 25, 2009, 10:22 am
I think I’ve mentioned a time or two that I play with some friends in a band. We’re not that great but we have little flashes of brilliance and definitely are greater than the sum of our ...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Sep 23, 2009, 11:25 am
No… it’s not the beginning of a joke about three guys going into a bar with one leading a donkey to a barstool.  : ) Last Sunday at my UU church our interim minister was preaching about ...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Sep 9, 2009, 10:41 am
In my hometown of Katy, Tx, which is rather “white”, there were lots of letters to the editor and the Katy Ind. School District to not show the President’s speech at all. Yeah, IR...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Sep 7, 2009, 5:27 pm
Yep… I said it. I believe with all my heart that Jesus built my UU church. And it’s in this place that Jesus built where I’ve been able to learn about sacrificial love, compassion ...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Sep 3, 2009, 8:30 am
UU congregations have very few liturgical traditions. Having come from a Catholic background where there are butt-loads of rituals and traditions I really look forward with much anticipation to our a...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Aug 23, 2009, 9:45 pm
There’s a joke that yankees will sometimes say about Texans. It goes kinda like this. “hey, what are last words you’ll hear from a Texan about to die?” “i don’t kno...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Aug 18, 2009, 10:08 pm
Well, add The Deist to that list! I just found out that the legislature of my home state did one of the stupidest things in the history of things that state legislatures have done… EVER! Appare...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Aug 17, 2009, 12:58 pm
Today I was listening to the news on AM radio hoping to catch what was happening with traffic, see how far back the ‘Stros have slipped from their brush with first place and maybe what’s i...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Aug 10, 2009, 2:08 pm
I’m taking a quick break from paying unemployment taxes for the clients we serve to tap this out. As I sit here at my desk I hear the cries of a baby…. little Naomi. Little Naomi is the f...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Aug 5, 2009, 2:42 pm
I was listening to the Pacifica Station here in Houston yesterday. I normally don’t.  But as I was changing from FM1 down to AM, I had to punch through FM2 where 90.1 KPFT was playing. The DJ...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Jul 28, 2009, 11:35 am
I’ve been reading a new blog lately as she intermittantly posts and one thing she said recently is, “although I am an atheist and fairly ‘out’ about it, I’ve been trying to a...
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julian posted an article on A UU Deist in Texas - Jul 13, 2009, 7:33 pm
I haven’t done this in a long time. It was really nice to just relax on a Sunday afternoon. I used to fire up the grill once every couple of months or so but after the ex wife and I split six y...
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