My Own Thoughts

is a result of the bugs in your stomach. I want to know where to get more of the skinnifying bugs. NOW! I don’t know how I missed the story, but Big Lizards has it. Note: The AP link on his site goes to an ad page, not the AP story.

if I weren’t the homeschooling, teaching, happily married mother of two, more worried about grading papers than the dishes in the sink, blogging as PDA me… La Vida Vica, a woman who turns a guy friend into a Mallomar, a non-friend guy into the hero of a Bronte romance, and blonde hair into the quickest [...]

TEN THINGS TO PONDER FOR 2007 10. Life is sexually transmitted. Yahoo! I always knew there was a reason it felt so good. 9. Good health is merely the slowest rate at which one can die I don’t think there should be any “merely” about it. Good health is a blessing, a miracle, a joy. [...]

at Wizbang. Jack Osbourne, Wee Man, Erik Estrada, La Toya Jackson, and Trish Stratus

Heather Martin, Specialist Shaun Martin’s baby sister, by 16 years, sings a sweet song for Christmas and homecoming. Found at Sgt. Hook.

Japan is opening its ancient tombs, sort of. Nature says “one researcher per association will be allowed to climb the outer mound of a given tomb and observe whatever features are visible from there in detail. The agency has yet to decide how many tombs it will open.” They can’t go in. They can’t get [...]

and that’s good. He left at 1 am and got home at 6:30. We arrived at the house at 7:30. He’s now asleep.

Tonight the frogs are out. You can hear them croaking loudly in the evening air. It seems ridiculous that an arctic cold front is expected tomorrow night.

Our internet is down. I’m at my hubby’s bestfriend’s using the computer. FYI Hubby is at MacWorld and I am WAY behind all my plans of things to get done this week.

“Reading at Walden” by Henry David Thoreau This is a new look at poetry. “The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. They have only been read as the multitude read the stars, at most astrologically, not astronomically.” “Most men have learned to [...]

“Of King’s Treasuries” by John Ruskin “There are good books for the hour, and good ones for all time; bad books for the hour, and bad ones for all time.” The good book of the hour… is simply useful or pleasant talk of some person whom you cannot otherwise converse with, printed for you. Very [...]

“On Reading Old Books” by William Hazlitt “When I take up a work that I have read before (the oftener the better) I know what I have to expect. The satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated.” Whoo hoo! Someone else besides myself finds joy and relaxation in re-reading old friends. See my post here [...]

“Books” by Ralph Waldo Emerson “Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.” “…[S]ome charitable soul, …would do a right act [...]

“The Commerce of Reading” by Michel de Montaigne “To divert myself from a troublesome fancy ’tis but to run to my books…” “it delivers me at all hours from company that I dislike” “I never travel without books, either in peace or war; and yet I sometimes pass over several days, and sometimes months, wihtout [...]

Reading in Bed ed. by Steven Gilbar is one of the books I bought to read last year but haven’t read. So, I sat down with popcorn and water to read, refreshing my soul with winsome words and personal thoughts writ well in someone else’s essay. There were some thoughts I’d never had before as [...]

Art & Love: An Illustrated Anthology of Love Poetry from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The cover price is $16.95 and it was published in 1990. This book is what text books in literature should be like. Small. Engaging. Beautifully illustrated with some of the great works of art throughout history. I picked it up [...]

Time’s argument about the person of the year chosen is very relevant in this online diatribe about reading in the US today. [2006 is] a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. [...]

According to the survey firm NDP Group — which tracked the everyday habits of thousands of people through the 1990s — this country is reading printed versions of books, magazines and newspapers less and less. In 1991, more than half of all Americans read a half-hour or more every day. By 1999, that had dropped [...]

“Total book reading is declining significantly, although not at the rate of literary reading.” If you were reading depressing literature, you’d stop too. Women read more literature than men, the report says. Yes, we’re saps. And we like the old stuff, more safety and security there. Survey says: the more educated a person is the [...]

The NEA said that less people are reading it, so what do they say it is? The survey asked respondents if, during the previous twelve months, they had read any novels, short stories, plays, or poetry in their leisure time (not for work or school). But really what they asked, according to one of the [...]