If you are on the Whiteshouse.gov mailing list you got this email from David Axelrod with a request that it be forwarded to combat misinformation forwarded in emails by those opposing healthcare reform.

Consider the forwarding done on my part.  Here is the text of Axelrod's email.… Read full post »

Hi,

 I realize I may be playing editor here and hope this modest proposal does not step on toes.  I am not an editor and have never even played one on TV ;0)

Also I fear being accused of promoting an echo chamber.

 However, there is one writer here getting a… Read full post »

I am discouraged by the methods some of those who oppose healthcare are using to disrupt town halls. See Rachel Maddow's report only after you hear what George has to say.  It is upsetting.

Also I spent time dealing with health insurance and mortgage issues again this morning.  I have peopl… Read full post »

Several people have commented in one of my blogs that they are INFJs.  If you are an INFJ would you comment here?

We are supposed to be 1% of the population but there seem to be a lot on OS.

 I have no idea what to do with this information once… Read full post »

Sometimes I don’t know what to tell my teenage daughter about men and about the world.

 I have great damage to undo because I stayed for many years in a marriage with a man who resented rather than loved me and acted out that resentment every day.  Her norm… Read full post »

John McCain your air quotes around the term “health of the mother” were real personal to me.

I hesitate to even post this blog because as I’ve noted in the past it is becoming very unhip teacher mom.  After posting this blog it will be unhip teacher mom who f/… Read full post »

I pm'd this response to the OS blogger who chose to libel me this afternoon.  I rarely pm and do not wish to begin a feud.  This was sent only after another OS blogger sent a pm in my defense.

 It is not necessary for anyone to defend me.

I… Read full post »

This the "mom-with-a-bad-attitude-on-a-soapbox" letter I regretfully send in some variation at the beginning of EVERY school year.  I don't allow my kids to sell Girl Scout cookies either.  Don't get me started on car washes by high school organizations in which teenage children in bikinis… Read full post »

It is no secret that I like comedians and I much enjoyed the alternative view or "breaking the news" D.L. Hughley has been providing on CNN.  Many of my young students also enjoyed his show and frequently discussed what Hughley had to say in class.

I believe the following newscast got Hughl… Read full post »

President Obama is fighting for his mother and honoring her memory. President Obama often referred to his mother arguing with insurance companies on the phone from the sickbed in which she died.

That is unforgivable.

Been there and done that except for the dying part because… Read full post »

For someone who is supposedly educated I don't learn very fast.  This is because I am the sort of idiot who has to experience something myself in order to really learn . . . I can't let go and learn from the good advice and experiences of others.  Those who can… Read full post »

Wow,

Those who can’t – teach.

That hurts.

I’m working on a teaching philosophy for a portfolio.  These are my preliminary scattered thoughts.

I fell in love in August 1986 during a night class in graduate school in Little Rock, Arkansas.  The object/… Read full post »

My house north of Orlando is situated in what used to be an area of horse farms and working farms.  Not much of that is left but what is tends to be bucolic and attractive.  There was one large pasture that I passed when first looking at my house before buying… Read full post »

November 6, 1984 

With Nudity and an Uncertainty that I May Have Accidentally Voted for Reagan 

Around 6 a.m. on the morning on the day of the presidential election I woke my husband David up crying in pain.  I had an abscessed nerve in a decayed tooth that was calling… Read full post »

Thank you for the hard work you put into these interviews and the fun you created for those who read the interviews.

Interviews in Second Life

Paul Levinson

http://open.salon.com/blog/paul_levinson/2009/03/25/my_avatar_interviewed_in_second_life_about_future_of_media

 Interview… Read full post »

I must stop being so oblivious.

I have a stack of political slogan t-shirts that I keep because they amuse me.  I agree with some of the slogans on the shirts and sometimes not so much: “Baptists for Huckabee”, “Mondale/Ferraro”, “Go Jeb Go”, “AFL-CIO R… Read full post »

There is a very simple way to solve the perception of cliques on OS, the fear of posts being lost due to RSS feeds, the incredible weirdness of grownups worrying about what is cool, and most importantly the fetish for editor’s picks.

Many people who post on OS may be like… Read full post »

I have to make up for my last post.  I am not always sad.

Beaches and Sleeping Porches: My Life in Photos

I have been a grading machine all day and will be tomorrow morning as well.  Gotta love the end of the semester ;0).

But I am taking… Read full post »

Hi,

 I am not going to San Francisco for tbe big English teacher conference in March but my friend/boss/neighbor Debbie is with her daughter.

I missed a lot of work last year and need to hunker down.

 Debbie has plenty to do and is not in need of recommendations.  However, I… Read full post »

No angst today!  Absolutely none.

This is my favorite time of year for trees in Florida.  The poinciana trees are in bloom.  I'm headed to south Florida this weekend and will see many of these.  They are so beautiful for about a month every year.  I'm taking my bicycle… Read full post »

He does give a damn. Thank you Alan Grayson.

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1. I am an INFJ. Strong on the I and J -- so I think that I know what you’re thinking and I will make private judgments about what I think you think. That is not pretty. Luckily INFJs are the smallest segment of the MBTI population. Perhaps we… Read full post »

Jake DeSantis writes of “my American dream” : a rhetorical analysis and critique

Perhaps Jake DeSantis, an executive vice-president of A.I.G.’s financial products unit, is the star or one of the star employees Edward M. Liddy testified he was afraid would resign if asked to re… Read full post »

Now it seems to be linking.  

Here is the Howard Johnson's version of the interviews.

Thank you thank you thank you Resistanceisfruitful for coding this. 

INTERVIEWS IN SECOND LIFE:

My Avatar Interviewed in Second Life about Future of Media

Paul Levinson

INTER… Read full post »

Not Really a Bucket List

I do not have a bucket list but have been advised by my physician to travel where I want to travel and do what I want to do and not to assume that there will be time later.  I am in remission.  He… Read full post »