My Own Thoughts

“I think it’s a mistake for these highly educated and capable women to make that choice [to stay home],” said law professor and working mom Linda Hirshman. “I am saying an educated, competent adult’s place is in the office.” Whoa! I’m an educated competent adult. I should make my own choices! And I’ve chosen to [...]

I began this list with good intentions, to write every book I read, that was not a romance novel, down for one year. But I read quickly and I don’t always like the books and I forgot to continue by the end of the year. As I went through my shelves to find what books [...]

I decided I had to at least go move today. Even though my thighs are hurting from the 5K and I had a headache. One thing I learned from the timing and seeing how far I was “running” is that I was not running; I was jogging. That was clear during the 5K which took [...]

On the weekend before my 44th birthday, this coming Friday (3/3), I ran/walked a 5k. It was, as a friend said, a personal record. I’m trying not to just get older, but to get better, too.

I’m used to the viagra, the penis enhancement, the gambling, the teen sex… But today I got a comment that would be about six pages long if it were printed on the evil of the Media, using the Dragon from Revelation, purportedly written by the squeegee king Ariel. What?

have been found with soft tissue inside them. They’ve found woolly mammoths with blood vessels and blood. And Tyrannosaurus Rex with soft tissue too. Read all about it at National Geographic.

Daring Young Mom writes about how to lose weight and asks for comments. Some of the answers are serious, such as “don’t graze. Only eat sitting down. And don’t do anything else but eat.” (That last actually doesn’t work for me. If I only eat, I eat a lot more because I’m paying attention to [...]

My eldest son said today at lunch that he is no longer a Christian. As if it were no big deal. As if it were something like being a vegetarian, something that won’t impact his life long term. I called him in and asked him why he said such a thing. He said because it [...]

To the Father of our country, many thanks. And happy birthday, Mr. Washington. I hope you are somewhere you can know that everyone’s celebrating.

We’ve been paying a fortune that grows every year for health insurance. Now, however, the Texas legislature has done something useful and adjuncts can get health insurance through the school. We have to pay more than the full-time faculty, but we can get it. Since many colleges, especially community colleges like mine, are taught by [...]

On swelling and time: Sensitivity to certain alkaloids naturally present in “nightshade” vegetables causes pain and swelling in a significant minority of individuals with degenerative arthritis. Nightshade sensitivity is not the same as allergy, and is not detectable by any laboratory tests in current use. The only way to figure out whether nightshade vegetables bother [...]

My mother is in the hospital with nightshade allergies, life threatening ones. She wanted to know what kind of reactions nightshades give people. And her doctor wouldn’t take my personal experiences, so I sent her some off the net. What are my personal experiences? Trouble walking. Joint and muscle pain. Muscle weakness. Back aches. Back [...]

I can’t really write that, can I? Someone wrote to me and said that her friend was treated rudely by a woman taking her money at the booksale. The friend described the woman who took her money as “long, sandy hair and tall.” No one at the tables matched that description. The only person with [...]

Whenever I feel bad, I want to touch my husband. It always makes me feel better. But if he knows I’m not feeling up, he says it feels like I am trying to suck the life out of him. It’s made me a lot less likely to reach for him, good or bad, because I [...]

Oma fell three weeks ago today and broke her back, shoulder, and arm. This week she had some internal bleeding. Yesterday she walked to the kitchen on her own. The first time she’s walked more than four steps in the three weeks. I hope she will continue to improve. My mother is in the hospital [...]

I said I’d keep posting here about running and eating, whether I was doing it right or not. Yesterday and today I didn’t stay on my eating plan. I did eat less than I would have previously, but probably twice what I really should have on carbs. And I walked on Thursday. I didn’t run. [...]

of novels can be found here. Thanks to Language Log for pointing the way. For those readers who are dying to know, the first line of my novel reads: “When Dielli tried to move towards Uncle Nephil, she found she couldn’t.” Maybe I should change that to “towards her uncle.”

That was a lot of work. More work than I usually do. I had to be there all morning today, plus last night (which is normal). Then the family who was supposed to come and close us down decided not to come but didn’t bother to tell anyone. They are unreliable. This is the second [...]

I grew up on “Baa, Baa Blacksheep” so I was appalled when I read about the University of Washington’s student senate meeting in which they decided not to honor this distinguished UW alumni because he killed people (during WWII, the enemy, and survived 20 months of a Japanese POW camp). I haven’t written on it [...]

The American Bar Association wants law schools to use racial preferences, regardless of the laws in their cities or states. Excuse me. That’s lawyers. Now we know where the activist judges come from. They come from the ABA. Full disclosure: My father, brother, and two cousins are practicing lawyers. None of them, to my knowledge, [...]