My Own Thoughts

This morning my phone rang and I answered it. A teary voice on the other end said, “Chris died.” I said, “What?!” “Chris died this morning.” I am thinking, okay, he has diabetes. He’s a big guy, maybe it was a heart attack. I am trying to pull the corded phone over to where I [...]

K: Kids, kindness, kisses, knowledge, kilts, knights, Kingwood, and, especially when I was little, my aunt Kay. L: Love and laughter. Long loving looks. Larea. Life. Learning. Lakes, especially in the winter with the mist coming off of them and the summer, when toes can be dipped in them to cool off.

Thank you who served and you who supported them while they served.

Nov. 5: E My son E Eyes, especially ones that work well. Ears. Epiphanies, energy, and everything I have. November 6: F Family, fun, friends. Forests, furniture, faith, family, freedom, food. November 7: G God, grace, grandparents (gramas and gramps), Grace (my niece), gadgets for my husband to play with, giraffes for fun, and grapes [...]

Miss England is a corporal in the British army and a veteran of the Iraq war. I may have to watch the Miss World (or whatever) pageant this year just to cheer her on.

The Berlin Wall fell. It seems to me like a lifetime ago, but I know to those in Europe, particularly in Germany, it seems far more recent.

I read Clayton Cramer on a regular basis and I absolutely agree with him on many things, including his discussions of mental illness. But he went beyond what I can agree with in this post when he said there was little that clearly showed that people were committed for no reason. There weren’t very many [...]

American.com asks and answers the question, Are liberals smarter than Conservatives? A conservative is defined (in the study discussed) as: The Conservative syndrome describes a person who attaches particular importance to the respect of tradition, humility, devoutness and moderation; as well as to obedience, self-discipline and politeness, social order, family, and national security; and has [...]

Eyes. I’ve always liked the color of mine and enjoyed my excellent vision. But when I lost some of my vision two years ago, I came to realize just how important eyes are. So I am most grateful for my eyesight. Thank you, God, that I can still see.

A great story on Clayton Cramer’s blog about liability issues, guns, and bathtubs in a law school class. I like what the student said and did. The results are fascinating. And I really like Clayton Cramer’s response. “[T]here need to be mandatory bathtub safety classes before parents are allowed to rent or buy a place [...]

The Common Room recommended keeping a “thanks” list in November. Each day give a new letter of the alphabet. I’m a tad behind, but I can certainly list twenty-six things for which I am thankful. A Animals. I’m grateful for my dog Serenity who is sitting beside me all curled up showing how much she [...]

from Fox News comes this: The former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in southeast Texas says she had a “change of heart” after watching an abortion last month — and she quit her job and joined a pro-life group in praying outside the facility. Get Religion has a discussion of local coverage and the [...]

When the rapist is your friend, I guess. But it’s still rape. I don’t want to listen to this video of Whoopi Goldberg. I just want to put it somewhere I can find it. Polanski pleaded guilty to sex with a minor. The charges were less than rape. But Polanski raped the girl. PERIOD. Yes, [...]

I wrote a piece for a journal. It was intended to be a rah-rah personal memoir. That’s what the journal seemed to me to be looking for. I have rewritten it three times and it is still not what they want and I am not sure that I can fix it either. To some extent [...]

I’ve been very busy. In the last eight weeks I wrote eight papers. One has for sure been turned down. Three were accepted for conferences and I gave those. One of the poems I sent out is going to be published in Taj Mahal Review in December. That’s cool. I don’t have any papers that [...]

Are you surprised by that? I am not. Core Knowledge Blog discusses a school system which installed a great program so that parents can keep up with their kids on a day to day basis. Only 1 in 5 took the time to EVER log on.