My Own Thoughts

Today at lunch my youngest son told his grandfather that he should buy a new truck. We need one in the family, he told him. My dad showed up this afternoon at our house in a brand new white Ford F150. It's an automatic rather than a standard, since my mother can no longer drive [...]

These are the questions the homeschooling mothers had. Do any of you relate to them? Concern: My child WON'T write (cries if I ask him/her to write only a few sentences–and I've even told them what to write about; or, s/he won't make the deadlines I set; or, says s/he HATES writing, etc.) Concern: My [...]

Today I had fun. You probably wouldn't call it fun, but I would. I enjoyed it immensely. I gave a talk. I spoke in public. To a group of people. Ones I didn't know. I've been told that the fear of public speaking is the number one fear in America. Obviously it's not my number [...]

That's what I'm going for. A body for life. A healthy body I can live with. A healthy brain that works. Body for Life has the plan that works best for me. It's a life long doable plan. I need that. I don't just need a weight loss plan, though it's that. I don't just [...]

I read a blog about taking this test at Real Age that tells you how old you are based on your medical history, your family history, your activities, your friends, etc. In real life I am 41.5 years old. According to them, I'm actually 36.9. At last I get to be the younger woman! Some [...]

Ever overdo it on exercise and do so much you're sick? That was my husband today. I didn't get up and ride this morning. My excuse was that he was sick. I did however do my weights. Lifted the same amount but later in the day and it felt a lot heavier. I ate right [...]

I'm on day 2 of a 12 week challenge. I've been eating well and I rode my bike both days. I lifted yesterday. Now I am blogging to avoid grading papers. But that won't last.

I'm teaching school and, if you read my blog regularly, you know that I feel like I am drowning in work. Grading and preparing are taking multiple hours every day. But it isn't only teaching that is overwhelming me. My sixth grader is taking a middle school history class. He has more work in that [...]

My husband wanted to get his blood pressure taken. So we went to Walmart. I mean, they have a machine in the pharmacy and we needed groceries anyway, so why not? Since he got his taken, I had to do mine. (Probably just to say that mine was better.) I always have low blood pressure. [...]

This book my sister is reading says there is nothing unique in Christianity. I disagree. First, there is the concept of grace. Christianity is the only religion which teaches that God's mercy and grace is what saves you. Buddhism is good works and meditation. Hinduism is good works throughout multiple lives. Animists believe there is [...]

If two disparate cultures, half a world and a full millenium separated, come up with the same idea, does this mean they were copying each other? No. It certainly doesn't mean the older culture copied the younger culture. My sister is reading a book against Christianity. One of the points it made is that the [...]

Last March I started working out and eating right. I followed Body-for-Life (BFL) for almost a year. But the last four months, I made no visible progress. I was frustrated. So I quit. I didn't quit cold turkey. I started doing Physique Transformation. Then when that was almost impossible to keep up with, since I [...]

It's bad when school is the first thing you think of in the morning and the last thing you think of at night. I realized at midnight last night that I had forgotten to do something for my class that met this morning. I panicked. Midnight is not a good time to realize you should [...]

The insurance companies won't take me unless I've had a hysterectomy because I have fibroid tumors. I have insurance now, but it's running US$1200/month. Can't afford that for long. The doctor said I don't need the hysterectomy, but it's one option. I signed up for it, at Christmastime. However, my husband thinks I'm crazy to [...]

I’ve always been into navel gazing. I took every test anyone offered me. I know my IQ, my Myers-Briggs personality, etc. Just this week my husband took a day off work to think about who he is and where he’s going. I thought, AWK! I haven’t done that in ages. I used to have very [...]

Okay, this is strange. According to >this post, from a reliable blog, Pessoa, a Portuguese poet, also wrote and published under several other names. These were not pseudonyms. He actually created lives, histories, and personalities for them. Or they created them for him, depending on whose view you take. This one man wrote, published, and [...]

I didn't know what to say, but I don't want to leave it unacknowledged. My son reminds me of the commercial which says “terrorists wanted to change America. They succeeded.” And every house is flying an American flag. We must, he says, not let them win. There are many ways to let them win. One, [...]

I think about money a lot. I used to be obsessed with it, but I'm better than that now. However, I found a web news article that I was very interested in. Wired carried an article about a website that will tell you how rich you are. If you want to skip the history of [...]

My husband used to say that about me and my sex drive. These days, he's probably thinking it about my teaching. I teach five classes a week on a college schedule. (Three hours a week.) I figure I spend two hours outside of class working for every one I spend in class. That's only 45 [...]

Read a blog comment on Reactuate about what is sexy. He's trying to define what guys think is sexy. He came up with the idea that good looking woman + high respect toward the guy= sexy. I want to talk about what girls find sexy. Since I am a girl, I think I can address [...]