My Own Thoughts

to stay up till 2:30 am working on papers and get back up at 6 am. But I was finding all kinds of interesting things to write for and possibly publish. So I stayed up. I haven’t heard back from the people I wrote. I guess if I don’t hear back by tomorrow, I will [...]

Deep dark depression, excessive misery… If you ever saw Hee Haw, you would know that song. And you would know that the tune is sprightly and upbeat. Not exactly a gloomy tune. But that’s kind of how I feel tonight. I’m a little (lot) frustrated. I’ve received corroboration that my lack of presentations and publications [...]

This is a second version, a newer version, of yesterday’s poem. Monsters walk among us wearing cardigan and denim. They have a smile that lies all the way through their eyes. Behind upturned lips and teeth lurks Grendel, soul devourer, haunter and destroyer of men. Snatching children away from childhood and into the valley of [...]

His screening questions include gun ownership questions which are not limited to person and spouse. WHY doesn’t anyone care about this? This certainly helps explain the increase in gun purchases since November 4. 59. Do you or any members of your family own a gun? If so, provide complete ownership and registration information. Has the [...]

You can read the screening questions yourself. I would not have any problem filling it out, but I am guessing most of the people who have to do it have forty or fifty pages of listings. Certainly Hillary Clinton will, if they make her fill it out.

Clinton will be the new secretary of state. That should make the Pumas happier. It just adds to my already fearful attitude.

As a homeschooling mom, I was appalled to hear that an on air journalist referred to homeschoolers as demented. Joy Behar was on The View Start at 5:50… That’s where they begin the discussion. 7:10 “A lot of them are demented when they’re homeschooled.”

She wrote The Color Kittens, which was my favorite as a child. And now, 56 years after her death, they are releasing her book The Moon Shines Down.

Monsters walk among us. They look like you or me. We can only watch our children While they dance. We can only watch ourselves While we race through life. Monsters walk among us. Grendel, troll, Cain, Jack, And they look like you or me. In response to a post on someone’s blog about a child [...]

Dreams are born in clouds that march to cover the burning sun before it conquers us; born in the scars of furrows slashed from the breast of earth– scars we plant our hopes in. Dreams are hard, hardy, holding fast. Growing great and strong in dry dying earth. Dreams beckon when we are blinded by [...]

It’s not a great time to be looking for work, according to everything I have heard. And I really want a full-time position so that we can pay for our oldest son’s college. (Well, not if he goes to Wharton, but…) I doubt SLAC will be looking for full-time people this year. So CC2 is [...]

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 [...]

And he became pro-life at great expense to himself and his family, who lost jobs and educational opportunities. Stojan Adasevic, who performed 48,000 abortions, sometimes up to 35 per day, is now the most important pro-life leader in Serbia, after 26 years as the most renowned abortion doctor in the country. “The medical textbooks of [...]

A student with a conservative and a liberal parent decided to see what people said when she wore a t-shirt to school that said “McCain girl.” Students told her she was very stupid, deserved to die, should be crucifixed [sic] and burned in her t-shirt. “In one class, I had one teacher say she will [...]

Would you scoop it up With a dipper Like Oreo ice cream And shovel it into your mouth As fast as you can swallow? Or let it melt in your bowl And stir it around Till you have ice cream soup? Would you nibble through the middle Leaving the edges, leaving the crust, Like a [...]

was 52% and the news continues to call it an “overwhelming victory.” (Bush’s 51% was a country divided.) Look at this map if you think the country has gone liberal. It made me feel a little better. I continue to pray for the nation and for our elected officials.

Wading through piles of student papers Strung like snowdrifts across my living room- Why don’t I use the office for this?- I search grudgingly for the stack Whose owners patiently await their most recent grades, Before the next essay is due. As I hand back flutters of white paper snowflakes, The red ink streaks across [...]

Peaches, full and ripe, like an eight month pregnant belly hang from the limbs leaning towards my hand from the weight. Yellow and a dark sunset orange punctuate the green finger leaves, dots of color drawn with a child’s marker. The wind shifts the limbs, bowing, blowing, and the peaches keep their place steady, stalwart [...]

So a guy is sweating, carrying a fake boarding pass, wearing a coat on a warm day, wearing a “Bin Laden: Hero of Islam” tee shirt, and carrying two Bud lights in a fake beer belly. He doesn’t have any identification with a picture on it. And they let him on the plane. Read the [...]

Here’s mine: My view of fb is that it allows me to keep in touch with acquaintances quickly and easily. It allows me to forge better connections if we happen to mesh more than I had thought previously. It allows me to know what is going on with their lives and keep up with them [...]