My Own Thoughts

When I was little I had strong goals. To go to college at what is now my alma mater. To get a PhD at Purdue. To own a house by the time I was 30. I did all those things. Then, I confess, my life changed. I got married, something I hadn’t planned on, and [...]

Apparently a strong teacher’s union exists at the college level because unlike other employees, whose Social security and taxes, are automatically withheld, my college withheld $0 for those things. That leaves us with a big tax bill which we were not expecting. There are several good things about this. One, we know about it in [...]

I think there is nothing wrong with spanking. I did not spank my children much when they were small, though, not because I disagree with it but because my children didn’t care if they got spanked. They did care about time outs and losing electronic privileges or later allowance. Even so, I was once accused [...]

It has always been my contention that dragons were real. I believe that most things we talk about have some basis in fact. In the 1910s a snake that ate livestock whole (cattle) was chased through farms in Italy. I would not have wanted to be the one who caught that. I found a 19th [...]

Michael Hanscom, a temp worker at Microsoft’s in-house print shop, is fired after posting to his blog a photo that showed workers at the facility taking delivery of several Apple G5 computers. His supervisor insists that Hanscom was fired not for showing the company relying on the product of its chief rival, but for revealing [...]

We had more excitement than we were planning on tonight. Seven couples and their kids went out to dinner tonight. There were too many kids in the game room of the restaurant and several of them started pushing the kids they weren’t with around. Of course, they were already doing that with the kids they [...]

I’m revising novel one and on page 22 of novel two. I thought this article on ten mistakes writers make, which I found on Iluminent, was interesting.

That’s what one of the parents appear to think. “Why should we read science fiction?” “What’s good about science fiction?” “What does it teach us about God?” It teaches us that God made man infinitely creative. But that’s not what she wanted to know. “Tell me where in the Bible it says we should read [...]

Rush said Edwards could beat Pres. Bush. And that his running mate might be Hillary Rod-Iron Clinton. That’s a scary thought.

Today classes started again. One of the students who dropped my class last semester is taking it this semester. I gave the students a book to read over the holidays. My 8/9 class read the book, at least most of it. I had one student who only read parts. My 10/11/12 class had one student [...]

Classes start back up on Monday. At least at the high school. My college classes don’t start up till the 18th. That means next Saturday is my last free Saturday for a while, but hubby is out of town on business. I spent the day today working on my syllabus for English 8/9 and English [...]