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 »

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 »

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 »

You Will Be Pretty Again

That is how an old lover signed off on all correspondence while I was undergoing cancer treatment.

He was trying to be hopeful.  However, what he said only emphasized that whatever my assets, accomplishments, or qualities being pretty was paramount.

If I was… 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 »

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 »

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 Valentine’s Day plans: a Steve Martin play called “Her Underpants” on Friday night, a folk/arts festival in Winter Park on Saturday during the day, and will see Lily Tomlin perform in Tampa Saturday night.

No one needs to have a pity party for me.

I will do these things… 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 »

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 »

President Obama made three observations in his news conference today about healthcare that I want to comment on.

#1

Some 70+ percent of people are happy with their health care insurance.

#2

 There is no safety net for those who lose healthcare insurance.… Read full post »

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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 »

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 »

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 »

He does give a damn. Thank you Alan Grayson.

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 »

Barry sent this when I posted a week or so ago about varitions on Mona Lisa art in my bathroom. I think it is funny . . . and yes it is also now in my bathroom.

 Photos of me without makeup . . . Jodi and Cartouche already posted them… Read full post »

Tyler has begun Kindergarten and is enjoying herself.  She is in a new “big” school but still goes to her old daycare in the morning and late afternoon.  Her previous teacher takes her to school on the van and picks her up in the afternoon as well.  I work long hours… Read full post »

There is free-floating anxiety, angst, and anger everywhere and I hate seeing it here. This is not an OS is going to the dogs post.   I am going to copy/paste the purpose of Open Salon as represented to everyone who posts here when they joined.

Open Salon is a… 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 »

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 Can Be a Piss Poor Human Being

I wrote about the ancient concept of time in previous post and it is referred to as kairos.

Time is a human invention. Dogs, cats, goldfish etc. know nothing of time and live in an omnipresent now and seem all the better… Read full post »

If I write a complaint letter I don’t think AirTran will care.  Thus this blog.

I learned something new Saturday morning.  The first three letters of Detroit are D-T-W.

I found this out after waiting in line for an hour to get… Read full post »

This is a repost from last Fall and gets depressingly more pertinent.

 I spent much of today thinking about my former in-laws' refrigerators.  Both barely survived the depression but due to WWII and the GI bill  became quite wealthy before they died.   The… 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 »