Specifically, breakfast cereal. I was an only child and spent most of my childhood in a single-parent household with my mother working full-time and leaving not long after I got up, which meant I was responsible for my own breakfast on weekdays (and on weekends when I got up before her). I was one of those kids who was easily swayed by slick marketing (see A is for Agnosticism, above), and tried new cereals only when they had a toy prize inside that I was interested in. My breakfast eating habits...

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I had originally considered "Atheism" for my first entry, but in the end my own noncommittalness won out. I'm just not sure enough that there is no God to be a full-blown atheist. A little background- I come from a very religious upbringing, strict Southern Baptist, which for those of you not familiar is among the most conservative of the Protestant denominations of Christianity. When people talk about a religion that doesn't want you to drink or dance or play cards... yep, that's the...

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There are basically two types of blogs out there. The daily catalog of "What I Did Today" and the fuming rant on a variety of topics. This will not be the first kind, at least not most of the time. I don't have the patience or the exciting life to make a running commentary, so it's to the essay format I go. To keep things within a structure, I'm just going through the alphabet, with a different subject for each post based on the next letter of the alphabet. Bear with me as some of this...

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