Category: Bits and Pieces

Too much business! Aargh. But there are things out there that interest me, so I’ll throw them your way, and try to get in with more substance later. If you’re going to play with the big boys, you have to play like a boy. I find it worrisome that, the

If you haven’t yet donated to Project Valour IT, which is holding a fund raiser so that it can continue to donate laptop computers to badly injured troops, your procrastination might have paid off. Holly Aho, the Marine Team coordinator writes with this news: As of today, anyone who donates

I have been shamefully remiss about reminding readers who come here that Project Valour — IT is in the midst of a fund raising drive so that it can deliver computers to severely injured service people.  The numbers at the fund raising drive are slumping, with only a quarter of

I really, really, really have to work now, but I wanted to make sure you knew about Melanie Phillip’s heart-breaking description of the violent antisemitism that is increasingly on the rise in Britain.  I used to be a passionate Anglophile, considering it the more civilized among nations, with a flawed

This video has some of the greatest dancing ever captured on film, not to mention Cab Calloway’s hep contribution: [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=fiZnDhHGEF8] If you don’t recognize them, those fabulous dancing men are The Nicholas Brothers, Fayard and Harold.

I have to admit that I’ve given scant consideration to Ron Paul, in large part because I find his supporters troubling. That they gamed polls was just silly, but that they turn out to include a lot of unsavory, white supremacist types is a red flag — a bright red,

re·demp·tion /rɪˈdɛmpʃən/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[ri-demp-shuhn] –noun 1. an act of redeeming or the state of being redeemed. 2. deliverance; rescue. 3. Theology. deliverance from sin; salvation. 4. atonement for guilt. *************************** I have been thinking a lot lately about redemption. The trigger for these thoughts is the

Saturday is always a difficult blogging day. The kids and the spouse are underfoot, and I don’t have my usual rhythm of sitting down immediately after they leave for school and work. Instead, it’s “Mommy this” or “Bookworm that,” sentence openings that always scatter my thoughts to the four corners.

I hate to sound like a broken record here, but we’re looking at another day when the Army is trouncing the Marines.  The supporters of the “few and the proud” are not doing well in comparison to the Army Strong people.  As the great Jimmy Durante would so, “It’s so

Last night, my husband was conducting a rather wild bedtime for the kids, while I was working on a project.  I suddenly felt this weird thudding under foot and hollered out “Was that an earthquake?”  “No,” he said.  “It’s just the kids running around.”  Some kids.  Some running!