My Own Thoughts

I admit it. I’m a luddite. I joined Twitter, but I can’t figure out how to follow people. I’d Tweet this, but no one I know knows I am on.

Daydreams echo in my head, I’m awake and not in bed. The house is clean and uncluttered. I am rested and unflustered. While Ron and I stay late asleep, The boys into the kitchen creep. They make their breakfast everyday and then put all they’ve used away. I throw the laundry in to wash and [...]

The soap slides down my skin and eddies into the drain with the water that soaks my frame and leaves me dewy wet. I briskly brush my body with the towel but it seems the water loves me Dripping hair hangs down my back and adds to the drenching after I have already begun the [...]

When my grandmother-in-law was a little girl, she wanted some of her daddy’s coffee, but her folks wouldn’t let her drink coffee. Instead they would make white tea. She and her sister Thelma loved it. White tea: coffee mug milk a bit of sugar (optional: dash of vanilla) heat up

An Ode to my Refrigerator, at least the outside, an ode to my refrigerator it is a symbol of my life. Graced by a casserole dish of blue and black made by the potter’s hands. Hiding, under its weight, the works of baby’s crayons. The freezer offers a tableau of Doric and Ionic columns here. [...]

It is interesting and short, just over a minute and a half. It starts off talking about metacognition. Then it talks about being good at blogging. Then it says, “If you aren’t good at it, and you keep writing, you will get good at it.”

I’m a little stressed out though. I guess it is because I said I would write some things that are due January 1. I just got the approval for both of them this week. So I haven’t been expecting them. Now I have a little over a month to write them both. Of course, I [...]

I am thankful for God who loves me a country where I can write that on a blog without fear a country where I can worship God a country where my family and I are safe my family who loves me my husband who is wonderfully supportive and bought me dance lessons for our anniversary [...]

Take a moment to thank the Creator of the Universe, the Almighty God, the Protector and the Great Physician. Thank you, God, for my many blessings.

Tomorrow is yesterday, my little boy said. When he saw wedding pictures with the garter he asked, why is Daddy taking off your underwear? This is a fragment of a poem begun in 1998-1999.

Oak tree by the gate Beauty quiet and deep standing by while I sleep All my life you wait. Gray–browed in bark all rough. Deep green leaves drop down Branches forming your crown To stop the sun, strong enough. Silence standing guard I grew under your limbs Singing rock songs and hymns In your yard. [...]

250 bad guys attacked 30 Marines. It sounds like the beginning of a massacre or a joke. It was a massacre, on the bad guys’ side. But it was not a joke. During the battle, the designated marksman single handedly thwarted a company-sized enemy RPG and machinegun ambush by reportedly killing 20 enemy fighters with [...]

Higher-protein meals may help overweight and obese people burn more fat, the results of a small study suggest. Research has shown that overweight people are less efficient at burning fat after a meal than thinner people are. In the new study, Australian researchers looked at whether the protein composition of a meal affects that weight-related [...]

Green grass spread wide for a wedding. Angels rained confetti seeds on the garden. White calla lilies bunched with heirloom carnations and a single white rose held together with white silk ribbon heralded the matron of honor and the bride. The bride, in high heels which sank into the dirt, danced in the arms of [...]

The wedding was sweet. My dear hubby took some great pictures which they were amazed to see an hour after the ceremony on a DVD created in the car with a Mac. We went to lunch and I had a good BLT and an exquisite chocolate truffle dipped in almonds. R and I had a [...]

It was not reasonable a man should love such land, but he did. Though he left and took us with him, he suffocated in the mountains of upstate New York, felt trapped in the miles of trees of East Texas, Louisiana, North Carolina. He missed the flatlands– the plains my junior class could not believe [...]

I’ve been to California for a wedding. It was beautiful. Now I’m going to bed.

I Miss Icebox, a simpler thing to fix, say, and spell. It kept in the coolness and let out the smell. Dugouts, cool and dark, smelling musty, home for snakes, cans, and hiders who’d get dusty. Polecats striped in dark and light getting at chickens late at night. Well house, where the water came, where [...]

Homeschooling Goes Mainstream says: Though parents and tutors have been teaching children in the home for centuries, in the late 1960s and 1970s there emerged for the first time in the United States a political movement that adopted this practice as a radical, countercultural critique of the public education system. Conservatives who felt the public [...]

My sisters are poster girls for the things you do not want to do. My baby sister got a tattoo with her fiance’s name on it. After they were married he cheated on her and that was the end of that. But the tat remained. Until she needed to have it removed for work. So [...]