My poor baby survived appendicitis – two weekends in a row! He finally saw a doctor this week and drank the nasty barium shake so they could see his innards. The verdict is that the appendix needs to come out,…
Poetry: Hard Rain
Hard Rain –Tony Hoagland From Hard Rain: A Chapbook After I heard It’s a Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall played softly by an accordion quartet through the ceiling speakers at the Springdale Shopping Mall, I understood there’s nothing we can’t pluck…
Two Birthdays!
Happy Birthday to dragontdc and einatlanta!
Welcome Aboard!
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at what truthful in-flight announcements might sound like. Your life-jacket can be found under your seat, but please do not remove it now. In fact, do not bother to look for it at all.…
Ford fattens computer models
According to http://ergoweb.com/, the models, which are used in the design of the passenger area of Ford’s vehicles, are “chunkier” than previous models, to allow for “a bigger belly and wider hips.” The company recognized it is harder to sit…
Maybe I should watch the video
Happy Birthday!
jenngbob, I hope you’re having a splendiferous day!
Poetry: Coconut
Coconut –Paul Hostovsky From Bird in the Hand Bear with me I want to tell you something about happiness it’s hard to get at but the thing is I wasn’t looking I was looking somewhere else when my son found…
From Katie: Learning by Doing
An awesome article by Seed magazine (my current favorite magazine!) about learning by doing. Apparently, that’s how we learn best. When we learn by doing, we retain the information we’ve learned much better than if it’s presented to us in…
I’m a Student! But Still a Crip, Too
Well, I’m officially in school and off to a running limping start. I made it to my statistics class on Tuesday, but only after a nasty fall. I was only about 20 minutes late, and the professor was more than…