The weird sisters, hand in hand,
Posters of the sea and land,
Thus do go about, about:
Thrice to thine and thrice to mine
And thrice again, to make up nine. – from Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Just an homage to crazy OS. Party on sisters.  Show… Read full post »

Gotta get to work.  Yesterday was my long day and at 4:45 thirty minutes before the last class was over I came face-to-face with crazy and desperate.  Not for the first time and likely not for the last.

We were having a "fascinating" discussion of the vagaries and wiles of… Read full post »

What I discovered when I discovered www.someecards.com.

Very funny website for email cards.

And no one paid me to post this ;0)

hmmm . . . all this cynicism might be bad for me?

And they wonder why I don't do family Thanksgiving?

Today let's give… Read full post »

I am one of the women under 50 who would not have had the annual mammogram -- my first -- at 45 which found the cancer if new proposed guidelines were in place.

Seems only a small percentage or women are saved through mammograms at that age.

Glad to know how… Read full post »

This is what they were fighting for.

God and Todd.

 Please haunt Sarah Palin at midnight.  Send her the ghosts of feminists past, present, and future.

Or perhaps Sarah Palin could watch this and learn about Jewish tradition.  It is called Todd and God.

 … Read full post »

 There are many reasons why I do not believe Sarah Palin is qualified for national or IMHO even local or state office. Those reasons have been discussed and debated to death by others.

Leaked sections of Palin's autobiography which will be officially available on Tuesday have bee… Read full post »

Having a wild Friday evening grading papers while listening to my John Hiatt Pandora station which has introduced me to Mark Knopfler's A Place Where We Used to Live.

Lovely song.

Just contemplative tonight.  Had a mammogram and ultrasound today that were clear.  Eighteen months of being ca… Read full post »

You don’t know what the hell you are talking about.

I get that a lot ;0)

Miami 1998

A younger version of my teacher self is in a literature class lecturing/discussing the Wilfred Owen war poem Dulce et Decorum Est.  In the best English teacher fashion… Read full post »

My mind has not been on OS today.  As several of my last posts reflect I have a real concern about the atmosphere in the world away from OS concerning Muslims as well as all who serve in the military.  Many of my students are Muslim.  Many are in the military.… Read full post »

I get teased for it but when travelling long distances I like to stop at Cracker Barrel for surprise iced tea, fried okra, and those corn muffins.  Sometimes I pick up something odd from the gift shop due to weird compulsions I don't even understand.

There is a plaque in my… Read full post »

What year is it?

When waking up from anesthesia after surgery and when admitted to the emergency room this is one of the questions the physician or nurse has asked me when trying to determine if I am all there.

It is 2009.  Today is November 8, 2009.… Read full post »

Google has an ad for 20% off custom written student papers on my last blog which is rather anti-ethical to what I do for a living.

 Does anybody know how I go about contacting them to make that ad go away?

I don't think that plagiarism is illegal in any state… Read full post »

I'm in here somewhere ;0)

Stories of Mentoring: Theory and Praxis… 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 »