Tidbits: Caramelized Onions, Reading, Pet Tip, HemLoft, Julia

• The lie of caramelized onions: It's a lie devious enough to bring about some strong language in this article, and to make me think (until I read this) that I'm just incapable of caramalizing onions. Well, here's the secret: it takes 10 times longer than recipes say it does.

• Why Christians should read literature (and even...::gasp::...fiction!). Why, oh why can't Russell Moore be the posterchild for contemporary American evangelicalism (whatever that means anymore)? I know some of you will get hung up on his comment about Fifty Shades of Gray, but please read on. It's worth it.

• Practical Pet Tip: Teach it to say your address.

• A very cool little building: The HemLoft 

• The Party of Julia:  A great analysis of that faceless cartoon woman lucky enough to have Obama's plan for her life inserting itself into every stage. (If you haven't seen the original, see it here. Prepare to be creeped out.)