My Own Thoughts

What needs to be on the resume? This person, who hires actuaries, says you need: good grades, math major or related field, activities outside of class, a good SAT score, and writing ability. Somewhere that answers actuary questions listed the top 17 colleges for this. But apparently they got some flak because it was removed. [...]

The doctors of ancient Greece and China had it right when they applied cool and minty salves to soothe aches and pains, a new study suggests. … Healers in ancient Chinese societies treated injuries with mint oil, which contains anti-inflammatory properties and produces a cooling effect on the skin. Cold compresses were also recommended in [...]

so vote Republican while you can!” has been recommended as a winning campaign sloagan. According to The New Republic, found via Discriminations, reminding people of 9/11 or their future death makes them more likely to like Bush.

The one that destroyed the Minoan society on Crete and probably created the Atlantis myth (which wasn’t called that originally, btw) may have been much more extensive than we thought. National Geographic

Apparently a deficiency in Vitamin D makes seniors (why not everyone?) more likely to fall, according to Reuter’s. Okay. Keep taking my prenatals and get some Vitamin D for my mom. What’s another little pill among hundreds?

can equal brain damage, according to Reuter’s. Maybe I need to get breathe rite strips for M too.

but not inches. My weight this morning was 166.4. However, I am glad that I’m losing weight. I told R that this was the lowest I’d weighed all year. But it wasn’t. For a day in May I weighed 163. I’ll get there.

Really. Go read it here.

Ray Robison says FSI is offering language courses for free. There are nine languages, including French, Spanish, Chinese, and Turkish.

That’s how many people died on 9/11. That’s how many blog tributes D. C. Roe is looking for. I’ve put it off because I don’t know how to do this. But I’m going to try. I signed up. And this is what I saw: Laura Gilly, age 32. Place killed: World Trade Center. Resident of [...]

Ecclesiates 6:11 11 The more the words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone? Shamelessly pinched from The Constructive Curmudgeon

“…the role of stories is to explain life, and the good stories, in their very substance and in the structure of their language, become revelation.” Andrew M. Greeley

My mom had a fall two weeks ago. Now she’s having hemoraghing in her eye and she can’t stand up without peeing and pooping. Forget the health problems, the humiliation of that would get to anyone over the age of two. She went to the ER for the incontinence. After keeping her there 24 hours [...]

This is another book by James Patterson. It is good, but sad. Sam is Jennifer’s grandmother who is the last member of her family alive. It’s a sweet and poignant story. Jennifer is recovering, just barely, from the death of her husband and her subsequent miscarriage. And then she gets the call that her grandmother [...]

I found a little book by Tanith Lee called The Dragon Hoard at the library booksale. So I bought it and read it. It is a light, whimsical little book. Nothing too predictable and nothing too boring. I enjoyed it. But with chapters like “In which Princess Goodness becomes too good to be true” and [...]

A book lover posts on her feelings about books. As a fellow bibliophile I related to much of it. Found via Scheiss Weekly

My husband submitted three photographs in our church’s arts contest. One won Grand Champion. The picture that won is here. It’s the first one with the green background.

KP wanted to join a book club, but didn’t know of one. I knew of one and called my friend who hosts it. She was excited to hear about a possible visitor. And she sent me the book they’re reading for this year’s first meeting so I can pass it on. It’s Marley and Me [...]

My friend KP recommended James Patterson’s book Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas. I read a page or two and told her no thanks, I don’t want to read about a cheating husband. She said it wasn’t about that. Cheating wasn’t involved. It was a beautiful story of love and hope renewed. It is written as a [...]

My eldest turned 15 about an hour ago. This week he will finish his first college class. I remember when I thought, “Well, this is when we start needing birth control again. Oh, nope. I’m pregnant.” (I was less than two weeks pregnant at the time.) I remember crazing sweet and sour chicken and not [...]