My Own Thoughts

Mrs. du Toit is a homeschooling mom who uses a bit more profanity than I do. She also writes complete essays. (My excuse is I'm too busy grading.) But I found a great essay she wrote on the differences between Americans and Europeans. She did have a statement I have to disagree with. (It's a [...]

I've always been a fanatic about taking every test that came down the pike. I can tell you my IQ according to tests at 5 year intervals probably, since I was 16. I know where I am on the Stanford-Binet test and how many others like me there are in the US. Today I found [...]

First, I love NY. Lived in Pleasantville, which is up from the city, when I was in high school. I spent the weekends, as many as my dad had to work, in the city and loved it. 'Bad things happen when you leave the city' is Manhattan Mini-Storage's inspired new ad slogan”– This is off [...]

Read a paper today from a student that said, “Unlike other people, I have a life.” Then he proceeded to explain what he does on the weekends. Now I know that he left out some things he does on the weekend, because he didn't include going to class and he is sometimes in class when [...]

This article on plastic is great. It talks about DNC list and the 25 million people who have so far opted out. Then in the comments you get the info that American Telemarketers Association is going to sue. Someone says, hey, let's call and complain. The 800 number is given. I like that idea. Someone [...]

I'm circling round the stuff I've done wrong in my brain so much it's about to go on overload. I can't live like that. So I am going to write down some good stuff in the hopes that this will encourage my brain to go in other circles. Good things that have happened to me [...]

Apparently not. According to I Steve love very carefully picks height, muscularity, skin tones, and hair length. According to him it's the explanation for the disparity between men and women marrying out of their races, depending on which race it is.

I went to school today with a blue afro. It was kind of an aqua blue. When I took it off, the hair underneath was a bright pink, thanks to a spray can. You know, the color spray says that it shampoos out. What they don't tell you is that it stays on your scalp. [...]

“High Heels are a paradox, ” wrote Rona Berg in Vogue. “They can make a woman appear more — or less — powerful”. When worn over long periods of time, they can be a prescription for pain, responsible for hammertoes and fallen arches. But when worn for the look they can work magic and seduce [...]

This article on Wired is about a place in Tennessee where they stuff bodies into bags, tie them to trees, and bury them in shallow graves. Then they wait to test decomposition. They say it stinks and nearby parking places always have spots to park. Gruesome, but useful.

Yesterday was my mom's birthday. My youngest sister and I had agreed to take my parents out to dinner Sunday night for Mom's birthday. At 3:40 I called my mom. Just to make sure everything was still on. We were getting ready to leave. Mom says she doesn't know anything about it. Even though I [...]

My husband read my blog entry and said, “You're perfect and I'm a scumbag.” Let me say here that neither one of those is true. I'm not perfect. My husband is sexy, intelligent, thoughtful, sweet, and an all around good guy. No where near my definition of a scumbag. We had different views of money [...]

According to this article the only study that showed money as the number one cause of divorce was done in 1948. Guys coming back from WWII apparently decided it was too stressful to live at home with the wife or send money.

I put in “research study problems marriage money” and got some different sites. Closer to what I was looking for. ABC News discussed a study published in May in The Journal of Socio-Economics. It uses all that data from the government studies started in the 60s. According to ABC it shows: “Husbands typically think the [...]

“In fact, the only years that money failed to lead the list of disagreements were 1994 and 1996. In both those years, the top dog was chores. Once they made more money, some folks seemed to have a problem in redistributing the workload.” So says a study quoted in ABC News. That reminds me of [...]

I remember a teacher in high school, one I never had, who wore different clothes to school every day of the year. I know this because the other kids kept a log of her outfits. She never even repeated a blouse, according to them. For all I know she had new shoes every day as [...]

Even though I am a teacher and have taught for years, I am feeling, for the second time in my life, incredible frustration with one of my children's school teachers. Since I have been their primary, almost their only, teacher, that's a little disconcerting. Am I frustrated with the history teacher because she is in [...]

The Accordion Guy says he and a buddy decided that their lives are on TV in some other universe, so they try to live in such a way that their ratings won't go down. Know someone whose 20th High school reunion is coming up. When it asked for “profession” he seriously considered putting in “semi-professional [...]

Body for Life is a 12 week challenge to see how much of a change you can make in your body in 12 weeks. From past experience, I know I can't make the kind of changes some people did. I've done five challenges and in the last four lost 40 pounds. Some people have lost [...]

My son has a take-home history test to take sometime this weekend. We have made flashcards and have been studying. Hopefully he will get all the answers done correctly and be able to do a good job with it. I plan to enter the questions into the computer and let him type his answers because [...]