My daughter is currently talking on Skype on her iPad. She was on my phone for over an hour till I switched her to the iPad. She's talking to her best friend, Ashley in Georgia. She moved there a while back.
It's so strange listening to them catch up, about allowances, school and friends, what they got for Christmas, all this stuff. now they are ( Read more... )

Teaching Writing in a Text-Message World
By Virginia Vagt

Writing is not going away.

In fact, writing is on the uptick!

A case can be made that writing is becoming our culture's dominant form of communication.

Email, text messages, tweets, and blog entries are all donein writing. Even on our electronic phones we do more texting than talking.

It's as ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've seen my phsch doctor. I've been having problems. Joe has mentioned possibilities and I bucked them, telling him there's no way and it's anything but that.

I finally made it in yesterday. Talked a bit. I though he might give me an anti-anxiety med and up my lexapro. But I'm already on the highest dosage of lexapro ( Read more... )

...that I return to my real Lj like the prodigal son. How long has it been? I don't really know. Does it really matter? There is so much going on. So much.

I'm sitting in the hospital ring now. I'm on my 6th evening of being here, wearing my 6th iv, very close to my next dose of delaudid. I'm still on liquid only foods. My right hand is ( Read more... )