Alphabet Survey

A - Age you got your first kiss:  Freshman year.  Same year as I made my first friend.   Not the same person though, right, Sharon?
B - Band listening to right now:   None.   I never listen to “bands”.   Recently have discovered Josh Groban and little Jackie Evancho - two singers I can stand to listen to, and with great relish.
C - ( Read more... )

Today my son told me he used to have a blog, for a little while, aways back.  And he told me the link to it !   Whoo Hoo!  No Facebook gaming tonight !!  I am off to discover treasures !

From Petey's old blog:
Dec. 19th, 2005 | 11:23 pm

So when I meet someone new for some reason one of the first things that I notice about them is the flaws.  When I ( Read more... )

God's Violence - OT

I've been mulling about in my admittedly feeble brain, the Old Testament historical accounts of the numerous wars the Israelites engaged in before reaching the Promised Land.   Like many other people, I've never been very comfortable with what seemed like excessive violence, and complete genocide, and more horrified to read about ( Read more... )

 Mid-Life Crisis - De-bunked

Mid-Life Crisis... A cute new term, flung about carelessly and so often, in the ultimate hopes that, once accepted as a common term, will have a desensitizing effect on the general population, and the guilty perpetrators will be able to continue the behavioral practices without the impunity of earlier times.   This is ( Read more... )

Computer Withdrawal -

I dropped off my laptop at Best Buy at the close of business Monday. The touch pad wasn’t working. I had disabled it previously, because I would invariably touch it with my hand or arm and it would move the typing cursor and I wouldn’t notice for the longest time that I was typing new stuff in the middle of a previous ( Read more... )

April 1, 2011

My other kid, James, gave me the ultimate compliment today. I had been getting validation and actual gratitude from Petey the past few months, but James is only 21, and I figured I’d have to wait a bit longer.   We were talking about mothers and parenting in a particular situation, and he said that this other mother wasn’t a “bad” ( Read more... )

I'm a Basket Case, and Fiercely Proud Of It !

You've heard the old phrase, “Don't put all your eggs in one basket.”    Well, along the way, I knew I was doing it wrong, I knew I was supposed to have another....a separate identity from my “two baskets”.  But in their early years, there was no time for anything else except fulfilling the needs of ( Read more... )

 Here's to Understanding - 3/7/2011

If you've read some of my earlier blog entries (and probably future ones too. Hey, wait....I can't even get people to read the past ones. How do you get someone to read what isn't even on here yet?) you'll have heard me lamenting (Some call it whining. I don't talk to them anymore. Because they won't take my ( Read more... )

"It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day." -
Darby Conley

This quote came in my iGoogle page today.   I take some of these self-improvement quotes very seriously.    This one rang true, and I've decided to make the implied necessary change.   I've decided to stop trying to take over the world.  That way, I'll have 4 more ( Read more... )

My older son, Petey, who just turned 24, recommended a book for me to read.    It's a new and very controversial best-seller called,
“Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, by Amy Chua.

Author's note on the cover of the book:
“This is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs.
 This was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are ( Read more... )