Category: Bits and Pieces

If you would like to get a glimpse of the people who are gracious enough to live and die for us, when many of us are so ungracious as to insult and denigrate them, visit this link.

I am so not a car person, as Mr. Bookworm, frequently has reason to bemoan, but I’ve just seen a short video about the most beautiful car ever made in my humble opinion.

The Feds may have prevented an attack against shoppers in a mall a couple of hours away from Chicago: A Rockford man is being held on terrorism-related charges after he allegedly targeted a shopping mall. Derrick Shareef, 22, targeted the Cherry Vale shopping mall in Rockford, FBI spokesman Tom Simon

Mr. Bookworm often chastizes me for the fact that, when he comes home from work, I’m tense and short with the children. I explain that when no one listens, but everyone fights, my frustration level is very, very high. Tonight, because I have a big project to do, after I

I can’t remember where I read it — because I wasn’t near my computer and couldn’t bookmark it — but I definitely read somewhere that Chavez was targeting teachers, etc., and that they were part of the political block trying to oust him (unsuccessfully, as it turned out) in the

Her grammar is even purer than mine, but she sure hits upon a lot of my pet peeves.

Every have one of those days where you make plans to go out for a couple hours to have a nice family brunch and to buy staples, such as toothpaste and milk, and then you end up coming home eight hours later, having spent what seems like your entire months’s

I couldn’t let Rose Mattus’ death pass unnoticed. Who is she, you ask? Only one of the people who made the world or, at least, my world, a much, much better place: Rose Mattus, who launched Haagen-Dazs ice cream with her husband, peddling the super-premium treat in grocery stores, has

Many years ago, when I was a naive college student, I got a job in an institution where the head of my department was a lesbian. She was a very nice woman, but I made sure I was never alone in a room with her. She never crossed a line,

You know how zealously I guard my identity, living as I do in the Bay Area, where conservatives are not welcome. Here’s an example of just how loony these things get. Let’s start with “The Wall,” a moderated internet site set up to be a bulletin board for San Franciscans

I got this from a friend, and pass it on to those of you in the Sacramento area.  It sounds wonderful: From: Cristo Rey High School & The Concerts of All Hallows Re: “Amahl and the Night Visitors” To: All Parishes of the Diocese Cristo Rey High School and the

I was walking with my kids to the bus stop this morning.  Suddenly, a whole group of kids took off down the hill, and my older child vanished with them.  My younger child didn’t pick up his pace. “Hey, big guy,” I said.  “Everyone’s going to beat you down the

Thank you all so much for your thoughtful, serious and kind comments on God (see the comments to my Thanksgiving post below).  You’ve given me a lot to think about and once again shown the civility and constructive spirit of visitors to the Bookwormroom.   I deeply appreciate you all. P.S.  The