To walkingbear, an intelligent, cuddlesome man who is talented in many ways. May you have many more!
“School Days, School Days, Good Old Golden Rule Days”
Is that how the lyric goes? I know, I can Google it. I should be in bed. If I get anywhere near a lyric archive, I’ll get sucked in and there’s no promise that I’ll get any sleep at all!…
Kyoshi – with flowers!
As you can see, he enjoys the finer things in life, like flowers. Especially if he’s permitted to maul them.
More flowers – Are you beautifying your world?
These are the most recent flowers my partner brought home with the groceries, photographed by my sweet and talented daughter.
The Animals Won
Katie is a bit too old to be a Steve Irwin fan, so we were spared most of that craze. Not all of it, of course, since we don’t live in a media blackout and we are exposed to the…
Quote of the Day, Happy Half-Hour
“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” – Stacia Tauscher, quoted in The Change Your Life Challenge by Brooke Noel. One of Noel’s suggestions is to have a regular “happy…
In Dallas? Wear your seat belt!
Being hauled out of school in handcuffs because of a $50 seat-belt ticket was bad enough for Lancaster High School music teacher Theresa Dobbs. She had no idea what was yet to come. That seat belt ticket — the only…
Poetry: To be of use
On a much, much better note…this settles it. Marge Piercy’s life work has to go on my wish list. To be of use –Marge Piercy From Circles on the Water The people I love the best jump into work head…
Maybe it’s just me
But does anybody else think it’s just a bit tacky for my mother to want me to come over and celebrate my father and brother’s birthdays when I can’t even remember how many years it’s been since they’ve celebrated mine…
Empowered by a microphone
I gave myself a gift today: a headset with my very own microphone for the podcast. It isn’t as fancy as the one that I was using, which is my partner’s Very Nice (read: intimidating) microphone. That one, though, sits…