Dorinda Fox
- Location
- Orlando, Florida, United States
- Birthday
- May 20
- Bio
- I teach writing at several universities. My two daughters are five and 16. I adore my children, have trouble raising them, and you will read more about them than you care to.
I am a cancer survivor.
I was born and raised in Arkansas.
I am addicted to Starbucks black iced tea.
"What if it's boring... or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring."
Lily Tomlin referring to her teenage diary, in an interview in Movie magazine (July 1983)
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."
-- Bertrand Russell
"I'm teaching myself to live without sleeping because I don't trust my dreams."
-- Jon Stewart on the Daily Show
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I wish the best new
beginning possible. You seem
to be on
your way.”
9:01AM - “Willful ignorance gets
my back up as it does yours.
When
someone has the
resourc…”
7:56PM - “Happy Birthday!”
4:17PM - “Thank you ;0)”
November 06, 2009 11:43AM - “Very scary.”
November 06, 2009 11:28AM
Dorinda Fox's Links
Sample of Non-OS Writing: Signs of Life ;0)
I love the games at county fairs. Got 50 cents?


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 »
No Apologies for the Gunmen But CNN Really?
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 »
Is the Fort Hood Shooter Really a "Radical" Muslim?
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 »
There is a lot of this broke business going around ;0)
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 »
Narcissism Updated: Why Don't You Read Me?
This is Work: Making The Research Paper Relevant
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 »
How To Be Stupid
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 »
This is Work: Social Commentary Requirements
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 »
The Dentist is Cool . . . . Again
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 1st Annual Halloween Candy Buy Back… Read full post »
Taking the Long Way . . . Life is Now .. . Thank You OS
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 »
Bless the Heart of Robin Williams
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 »
I Am Naming the Cane Toad Jason
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 »
On Drinking Beer and Conspiracy Theories
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 »
Get Used To It
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 »
The Poisonous Cane Toad and I am not crazy
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.

Today's Goal is Restoring Sanity Through Small Steps
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 »
No Peace in the World Unless There is Security At Home
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 »
Persuasion by Making Life Fun: Hats Off of to Volkswagon
I just think this is funny.
This ought to be installed in all stairways next to escalators to see it the stats hold up.
Just Hush and Think For Two Seconds with Andy Kaufman Bonus
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 »
On Lee Majors and the Selling of Our Bionical Souls
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: It is not about sex!!!!!
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 »
Reading is Fundamental
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 »
Happy Brain Dumping ;0)
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 »
Of Sheets and Pedants
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 »
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Updates
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Halloween Images One Week After
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Commuter rage II: What's wrong with this picture?
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I couldn't sleep at all last night
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In Which I Give David Mary or Mary David A Million Dollars
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Musings of an Insomniac
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For Blind Dog John
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Like Baseball, We Come Home...
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BREAKING NEWS: Suspect Shot In Police Assassination Case
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