Category: Bits and Pieces

Every blog listed on my blog roll is there because I genuinely like the contents of that blog.  Time constraints and habit mean that I don’t visit those blogs as often as I should.  Sometimes, though, I have a Sunday afternoon when I do get the chance.  The following is

My husband attended a professional multi-day seminar at an Ivy League university.  One of the classes he attended touched directly upon the work he does day in and day out.  The teacher for this seminar is a professor at the Ivy League institution.  As one of the premier “experts” in

In Arizona, an Iraqi immigrant ran over his daughter and tried to kill her because she was becoming “too Westernized.”  My first thought was, why do they come to America if they hate our culture so much?  And in the question lies the answer:  they come here, not to achieve

I was reading Kurt Schlicter’s enjoyable and savage attack on John Lennon’s Imagine, when I got the yen to find out just who this Kurt Schlicter is.  Big mistake.  People like Schlicter make me realize that I’ve wasted way too much of my life doing silly things like sleeping and

I went to Kaiser to get flu shots for me and my children, something I’d calendared a couple of weeks ago.  I arrived to a mad house.  Turned out the Big O declared swine flu a national emergency.  I’m sure that I saw a CBS special report just the other

As I’ve read back on some of my posts for the last few days, I realize that I’ve been writing some of it in a unique language, all my own, made up of homonyms, synonyms, typos, and brand new words, as yet unknown to the English-speaking community.  What’s unnerving is

The fun here isn’t just in watching an amazing performance by girls and young women.  Instead, part of the pleasure is watching a jaded audience of young men at an Army-Navy game go from polite cheers to foot-stomping roars of approval:

This has been popping up amongst the handful of my facebook friends who are religious.  I think you’ll like it: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvhGeNzdRZA[/youtube]

I happen to be a huge Disney fan, whether we’re talking about the man, the movies, or the lands/worlds.  I don’t know if I can hang onto that forever, as the current Hollywood corporate entity, with its TV station, seeks to market sanitized sleaze to our tweens and teens.  I

I think I blog, at least sometimes, because it’s the emotional equivalent of going on a bender when the other things in my life are overwhelming.  I should be working now, but I’m at my Mom’s place because she isn’t feeling well.  I’m not actually sure I should be worried.