My Own Thoughts

When Tom Burnett Sr. came out against the Flight 93 Memorial, the press asked architect Paul Murdoch if there were really going to be 44 inscribed translucent blocks emplaced along the flight path (equaling the number of passengers, crew, AND terrorists). Murdoch acknowledged 43 of the blocks, but denied knowing about a 44th: [T]here are [...]

GI Joe, who in the movie is being perverted to a world government guy, is based on a real American hero named Mitchell Paige who in WWII held a hill against over 2000 Japanese soldiers when all the rest of his men were killed or wounded. GI Joe has Paige’s face. God bless the American [...]

“but nobody is” is the way the song goes. In my life, it would be, “I may not be normal, but compared to my mother I am.” My mother is losing her mind. Unless she is thoroughly depressed, the doctors give her depressants, she’s crazy. She decided I was a witch and that I didn’t [...]

My husband was saying recently that we had love at first sight, because we met in June and got married in October. But actually, I know the weekend I fell in love with him. Probably even what we were doing at the time. It was the weekend of his best friend’s wedding. I knew the [...]

I am going to a Halloween party for children who have no costumes. (They’re inner city kids that we tutor on Wed. nights.) They’re not going to be expecting something either. We didn’t feel like we could promise them anything. BUT I went to the dollar store, and along with some things which will make [...]

Live Science today has an article titled, “A Culture that Capitalism Can’t Crush.” Capitalism does not crush a culture. The people of that culture discard it for something that they like better. We should not enjoy our numerous and extensive benefits vis a vis capitalism and then decry capitalism being accepted by others. I was [...]

At least some of them were. Live Science says. I want a commercial with redheads running around saying they’ve been insulted.

I don’t know anything about Blackwater (security co. in Iraq), but I agreed with Blackfive about the security detail for Secretary of State Rice. Why was that woman allowed to get so close?

This day is called the Feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a-tiptoe when the day is named, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall see this day and live t’old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say “To-morrow is [...]

thanks to their reporter/blogger Bobby Calvan in Baghdad. After reading the blog entry (which is now Error 404, probably taken down or snowed under with people trying to read it), you can read the comments as well. This is the first time I have ever read 100+ comments that were all written the same way. [...]

The bike: 12-15-12 mile rides. Tomorrow, I don’t know. Inches lost since I started six weeks ago: 4.5 Weight lost since then: At least 10 pounds.

The Flight 93 Memorial in Pennsylvania is going to honor, not only the passengers and crew, but the terrorists as well. There are not forty blocks being used, one for each passenger and crew member, but forty-four. One is at the entry. The final three blocks have the date on them. But there is one [...]

“A pig is a pig.” When Tom Burnett Sr. was helping to pick a memorial to Flight 93, he objected vehemently to the planting of a huge Islamic shaped crescent on the crash site. The Project asked if he would be okay with the Crescent of Embrace design if they didn’t call it a crescent. [...]

My mother has this. The depression is horrific, even worse because the psychiatrists and psychologists bring on this somnolent state of my mother’s on purpose. She lives; she breathes; she eats. But she has no desire whatsoever to talk to anyone, whether she loves them or not. The manic state is terrifying. She screams; she [...]

is an excellently crafted novel, which leaves my stomach in knots at the end. It is a terrible ending to a book when I know the next will not be out for a year or more. And though I am sure the end will not be as horrible as has been set up, I still [...]

Two weeks ago, I planned to ride my bike 2xwk for 20 miles and 2xwk for 5-10 miles. That hasn’t happened. I’ve been going for four 10-12 mile rides a week. And this week I was thinking I would do the same thing. But today I decided to ride a different route. I went six [...]

My wonderful husband. Two healthy sons. A part-time job that I enjoy. Another part-time job that I enjoy. My vision. Thyroid medicine. A working brain. The cool morning. A stable marriage. Being able to tutor inner city kids in reading. My PhD. Our house being paid off. the ability to get in better shape That’s [...]

by P. C. Cast is an interesting and well-written romance novel. I learned a history of the minotaur I had never heard before and I cried. I enjoyed it.

Mona Lisa is so famous, there are at least two country western songs with her in it. The above is one line; the other is part of one of my favorite songs: “There’s only one Mona Lisa, one leaning tower of Pisa, one Paris, and there’s only one you.” There is a cool new art [...]

At least not according to Go to Quiz. Got that, honey? I am NOT a compulsive reader. Therefore, I can order those seven other books off Amazon and hit Barnes and Noble and HalfPrice Books, even though all 19 of our full size bookshelves are full. They must be your books. Because I am only [...]