My Own Thoughts

This week my class is reading the third book in Gulliver's Travels. This is the one that people most ignore. Kids' shows have the Lilliputians and the Brobdingnagians (little people and the giants) and some even add the horses of Book 4, but most people ignore Book 3. I think that is interesting because Book [...]

I came up here to review a manual and then decided to write a quick blog entry. According to the calendar, it's been three days since I blogged. It feels like I just blogged last night. I think my time has shifted into high speed. Usually, in the past, I have had plenty of time [...]

I am against war in principle. I think that if we can avoid killing people, we should. That does not mean I am against this war. Saddam Hussein has been ignoring UN rules and laws for the last ten years. Why do we expect him to start obeying them now? He isn't going to. Here's [...]

That's a question. Tomorrow I am supposed to answer it in 50 minutes in such a way that eleven thirteen year olds can respond, years down the road, if someone asks them the same question. There are simple answers to the question. But the question itself isn't simple. What makes something Good? What is God? [...]

I've been doing Physique Transformation for three weeks now. I quit Body for Life after 44 weeks and a total loss of 45 pounds of fat and 27 inches. But the last two weeks of BFL I was losing muscle, not fat. And that wasn't what I wanted. Physique Transformation's idea is that most of [...]

We went to war over the issue of whether or not the states could make different laws than the federal government. Apparently not everyone remembers that. The federal government says that marijuana is an illegal drug. You would think that would mean it was illegal everywhere in the US, right? Apparently that's only technically correct. [...]

It's free. (Or so it says. I don't need one, so I didn't keep looking.) Great Boyfriends is a reputation site for listing your guy friends who might like to get a new girlfriend or are rather shy. Hmm… Could I list folks off blog-city? Better not. It's also a site to look for a [...]

I have no comments on my most recent blog entries. But I haven't been cruising blogs and leaving lots of notes myself. This new diet takes hours out of my day, “peeing and eating. That's all I do.” my husband says. I think that would be true if you added in a bit of time [...]

That's not what the study says. What the study says is that people in general in the US perceive Southerners to be less well off and less well educated than people who aren't from the South. The person who ran the study is from the South, but doesn't have the accent. She says that because [...]

People have been slamming the conservative media. But most of my life, there's been a clear difference between liberal and conservative media. And to get to the conservative media, you had to leave the easily accessed channels and go looking. Now, however, all the puff is about how there is too much conservative media. (I [...]

I was looking for links for school. One of them I found, Book a Minute is fun. It has a classics library with the plot line summarized in something that can be read in a minute. Imagine, you can read through it all in an hour or so, all the great classics. The same host [...]

I was on BFL for ten months before it quit working for me. In that time I lost 40+ pounds and 27 inches. Now I am in a new program. It's a bit more difficult. You have to enter into the computer every food you eat. It doesn't matter if you have something new to [...]

Went to Austin this weekend. That was great. Visited our old church. I enjoyed that. My favorite speaker was on the roster for the day. That was wonderful. He preached on Colossians chapter one. But what he said was that God is proud of us, thrilled with us, just because he made us. When we [...]

I like blogging. I loved it when I first started. I felt like I could say anything I wanted to. No one knew who I was. It was safe to show all of me. So I blogged a lot when I first got on. I had a lot to say. I found a lot to [...]

I was reading a blog entry by a teacher who has a friend who has gone wacko since she's turning 40. The friend lost weight, doesn't go home if she can avoid it, flirts seriously with other men. Assuming the blogger was right and it was mid-life crisis, that woman is in for a lot [...]

For years the gospel of Luke was a good one to take potshots at because of its “wrong history” and its “misuse of words.” Within the last century, however, archaeology has vindicated the book of Luke. People thought Luke was wrong for several reasons. Many of the things he wrote were not supported by archaeological [...]

Though I've taught the history of Valentine's Day in school, it's not that big a deal to me. I'm not dating. I was never dating my husband on Valentine's Day. We met in June and married in December. I get flowers for Mondays or whatever, so I don't have to wait for VDay to get [...]

This is a minor rant. Not directed at anyone at blog-city. If you receive a private email, it is good manners to respond privately. Not to post it on the net and lambast the person who wrote it. If you must lambast them, do it privately. If someone posts about you in a blog or [...]

I was in class today, teaching some really depressing stories by Flannery O'Conner. The first I heard of the shuttle explosion was when I finally got out of class, about 15 minutes late, and called my husband to tell him I was on my way home. He said, “Have you heard?” I thought, “Heard what?” [...]

It is always fun to see that someone has posted to your site. I got on tonight to do my entry. I was thrilled, though, to see other people had visited and posted. I like reading other people's blog entries. I prefer the ones that I can read easily (color and type size can make [...]