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Natural Disasters
My daughter has survived both her first earthquake and first hurricane with great humor and a great learning experience. She was one of the fortunate ones who neither lost power nor suffered damage to her home. There was a tree that toppled in front of her apartment but that was it. In fact, after the fact, she has found both natural disasters to ( Read more... ) -
End of summer
sighOnce again, summer draws to a close and school starts up again. This is, for me, the hardest part of the year ( Read more... ) -
Morbid?
Just wondering if I'm morbid. I'm am currently enthralled by Michael Ghiglieri's Off the Wall: Death in Yosemite. It's a fascinating study of the (mostly) accidental deaths in the park. I've never been to Yosemite and have always wanted to go, and as I read this I'm am scared to death of hiking some of the trails and seeing some of the sights! But ( Read more... ) -
Blogging
A few weeks back I went to an education conference in Los Angeles, and the first morning we played one of those stupid getting to know you games--a form of bingo. The idea was to sign your name to a square that carried an activity you did, something you owned, stuff like that. I signed several boards in the box that said "has a blog". Figured I ( Read more... ) -
Summer Activities
As summer began, my daughter made a list of things she wanted to do this summer, and encouraged others to share their summer ToDo's with her. Since I had already had a similar thought myself, I was happy to do so--especially because telling someone that you want to do something makes it all the more probable that you'll make an attempt to do it ( Read more... ) -
Bummed
I woke up yesterday morning to let the dogs out at their usual ungodly hour of 6:00 a.m. and heard my male cat hollering vociferously. I couldn't imagine what his problem was, but ignored the noise and went to let the dogs out. That's when I discovered my indoor cat sitting on my back step hollering to get in ( Read more... ) -
When does it stop?
You know, I'm all for helping others in need. But when exactly does it stop? At what point do we taxpayers get to say, "No, I'm sorry, but that's not something I want my dollars to go toward." In Chicago, the mayor wants to give high-speed internet to "underprivileged" kids. At whose expense? And why not high-speed internet access for EVERYONE? I ( Read more... )