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Stories of Mentoring: Theory and Praxis… Read full post »

Tyler loves this game.  She is five.

Every time she hits one of the suckers with a hammer another pops up.

And there goes the 50 cents.

I prefer the cotton candy myself. Read full post »

CNN had a former SWAT commander from New Orleans helping to narrate reported events in Orlando.  The gunman in Orlando is named Jorge Rodriguez.  The coverage that I saw only showed the police spokeswoman giving the gunman's name and not his birthplace.  

Major Hasan who shot people ye… Read full post »

The tiny tornado who weighs 43 pounds soaking wet is now at her father’s house so I can clean mine.  I don’t want to but I have to because it would disturb most people and cause them to make judgments.  Posting photos would be embarrassing but there are toys strewn throughout… Read full post »

This is a picture of the man I wanted to marry when I was fifteen-years-old.  My love was unrequited.  His current 40-something-year-old self is holding a photo of his 20-year-old self.

The man is Willie Aames who played one of the brothers on Eight is Enough.  He was th… Read full post »

This is work.  I try to post once a day but am too busy to post anything other than work today.

 Students have a hard time using old papers to plagiarize this assignment be those papers their own or procured from elsewhere.  They also learn the research process.… Read full post »

If I ever run out of stupid things to do -- which is not likely -- I will . .  .

Create a wireless phone company targeted towards those who support liberal causes.   I will spend I dunno a couple million promoting to this demographic. I have not done the… Read full post »

Tuesdays and Thursdays are class days for my freshman composition courses.  This is what the students have to consider when revising rough drafts of their social commentary papers.   This is one of the fascinating work blogs I post from time to time showing the exciting manner in which I sp… Read full post »

This is the same dentist who throws a family picnic where he gives away a plasma screen TV.

Now he buys back Halloween candy and sends the candy to the troops.  He was a dentist in the Navy.  I love my dentist.

Collins Dental 1^st Annual   Halloween Candy Buy Back… Read full post »

This is a Thank You to the people who comprise Open Salon for sustaining me over the past year.  You have helped me to find a voice as a writer as well as some of the most kind, intelligent, and giving friends I have ever had the fortune to meet.   There… Read full post »

Sorry Details of Mundacity OR AT&T UVerse Technology Ain’t That Great

I am typing up notes taken during Robin Williams’ performance at the university arena in Orlando Friday evening which I saw with my daughter.  I can’t post these musing until I dunno sometime tod… Read full post »

Previously I wrote about the cane toad getting in the house and settling into the master bedroom and bathroom.  I did try to catch him several times but could not.

So when I went home for my dad's birthday and was going to be gone for a few days I set… Read full post »

It is a heavy day for grading papers and I took two hours off to see a new play by Steven Dietz called Yankee Tavern at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater.  That is not as irresponsible as it might appear because if I grade for too many hours in a row all… Read full post »

So hard to look in the mirror

and see the woman I have spent a lifetime

not wanting to see or be.

That angry woman.

That woman others dread to be around.

The woman I ran away from.… Read full post »

There are many elements of my life that are difficult and hard to deal with.

People living in Florida often report alligators in the garage, bears up the backyard trees but . . . 

 meet the poisonous cane toad who is in my master bedroom and bath.

 … Read full post »

Today is when I am starting to restore some sanity about money and health and needing STUFF  to my life through small steps.

1. I am halfway through cleaning the closet and throwing stuff out. There is a lot I have not worn in two years because it no longer fits… Read full post »

I just saw Capitalism: A Love Story and like most Michael Moore movies the thought and energy that go into his movies inspires me.  His righteous anger that can inspire also tends to lead him to film sequences that stick it to those who anger him.  Such sequences  can sometimes drive… Read full post »

I just think this is funny.

 This ought to be installed in all stairways next to escalators to see it the stats hold up.

Why did Obama earn the Peace Prize and on a day he won't see the Dalai Lama when we are bombing the moon like macho idiots?

We live in a corrupt and corporate owned country. That seems rather obvious.

However President Obama's  award is appropriate.

He fought class war for… Read full post »

This Lee Majors infomercial for the Lee Majors Bionical Rechargable Hearing Aid

That is the real name of the product and his signature is on the hearing aid case!

illustrates what is wrong with the healthcare reform.  It is also funny and provided the only laugh I had/… Read full post »

Leave David Letterman Alone: People Cheat Even When They Keep Their Pants On

I have been married twice.  I have been divorced twice.

The first marriage was shortly after Prince Charles/Princess Diana married and I was wearing a ridiculously poufy white gown lent to me by my cousin Teri… Read full post »

In order to promote a fair and balanced Open Salon I am posting the following.

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:I3MNJZyChcAJ:revolution.h-net.msu.edu/essays/carp.html+french+soldiers+american+revolution&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Historians also stress the importance… Read full post »

I am absolutley thrilled with the minute clinic at the grocery store.  Whoever runs Publix should just run other stuff.  I had a painful bout of bronchitis come on two days ago and a ton of work. So taking time off for the doctor was difficult but I was just going… Read full post »

As an undergraduate many years ago I worked at Dillard’s Department Store in store 100 at Park Plaza in Little Rock. That was long enough ago that Mr. Dillard himself used to drop by late in the evening after dinner to check out the store and chat with long time employees.… Read full post »