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About Me:

• Why I used to go by "Reverend Jan"
• Stuff I do for fun
  • Casserole recipe
  • Dolmades recipe
  • Pasta sauce recipe
  • Tabouli recipe
• Navelgazing (a short history)
• A really long and out-of-date history
• New apartment tour (2000)
• Old pictures
• Old apartment tour (1999)
• Wedding pictures (1996)
• Wedding text

Baby Crafts:

• Baby carriers:
  • ring slings
  • pouches
  • asian-inspired carriers
  • wraps
  • FAQ and carrier additions
• Breastfeeding helpers:
  • nursing pillow
  • nursing shirts
  • nursing bra
  • pumping bra
    
• Stuff for kids:
  • sleep sack
  • high chair cover
  • grocery cart cover
  • baby chair harness
  • cloth doll
  • b&w mobile
  • diaper gussets
  • crib sheets
  • "magic" wands
    
• Stuff for grownups:
  • maternity wear
  • cloth pads
  • Sarah's poncho
  • Dupont's jacket inserts
  • Wild Ginger
    
• Purses, bags, and storage:
  • breastfeeder's diaper bags
  • fabric diaper case
  • sack-style bag
  • stroller accessories
  • cloth grocery bags

Educational Forays:

• Journal summaries:
  • Sept. 11, 1997
  • Sept. 18, 1997
  • Oct. 2, 1997
  • Oct. 9, 1997
• Other seminar-related writings:
  • My goals
  • Mock interview
  • Classroom observations
• Lesson-related items:
  • Biographies of famous scientists
  • A worksheet for TV current science
  • Using History to Teach Science
• Aftermath of the internship (1998)

Grammar:

• Rev. Jan's Grammar Primer
• The O'Rourke Rules

Guestbook:

• 2003 entries
• 2002 entries
• 2001 entries
• Geocities (pre-2000) entries page 1
• Geocities page 2

Kids:

• Recent pictures
• Anecdotes and pictures prior to 1/1/04:
  • Stephen
  • Sophia
• Stephen photoshops:
  • Mine
  • David's

Miscellaneous:

• Links
• Read and Play
• Recent site changes
• Stephen explores the world through the wonders of Photoshop
• Strange search phrases that hit my site
• Why I made this redesign
• Weird food

Philosophy/Essays:

• Breastfeeding issues:
  • Sesame Street
  • Real Simple
  • Tom Moroney
• "Current" events:
  • Letter to GWBush about the Hagar appointment
  • Open letter to GWBush after 9/11
  • What happens next?
  • Voted for Nader?
• Email discussions with evangelicals:
  • Eva Marie
  • Ashley
• Essays on Atheism and Related Topics:
  • Is evolutionary theory a worldview?
  • School Prayer
  • Death and the Atheist
• Forum" pieces I wrote for The New Hampshire:
  1. Concerning "proof" of the statement "God loves you"
  2. Concerning the doctrine of "Original Sin"
  3. "Why I am an Atheist"
  4. My latest effort against the newly-sinister Walt E. Laux and his cronnies
• "Forum" pieces concerning cloning:
1. An editorial highlighting people's paranoia about cloning (not by me)
2. My response to the above editorial
• Discussions on unh.flame and unh.religion:
1. A chat about evolution and terms used in evolutionary thought
2. A discussion turned ugly about the role of religion in different peoples' lives
3. More chats about religion
• Essays from my "Introduction to Prose Writing" Class:
  • The Darker Side of Life
  • Of Letters and Love
  • Living
  • Observations
  • Occasions
• Miscellaneous writings:
  • "Shower with a friend"?
  • To Play the Fool: an essay on the Fool in Shakespeare's plays

Stories:

• Short Stories, in Order of Appearance:
  • The Vampire
  • The Cat
  • After Death do us Part
  • The Minstrel
  • The Puppets of the Script
  • Death and the Maiden
  • Eternity Isn't
• My Novel, Requiem for a Vampire:
  • Chapter One: Rebirth
  • Chapter Two: Marcella
  • Chapter Three: Nikolai
  • Chapter Four: Haydn
  • Chapter Five: Lucianna
  • Chapter Six: Julia
  • Chapter Seven: The Citadel
  • Chapter Eight: Mephistopheles
  • Chapter Nine: Still Unfinished
• Lugubrious Poems from 1991