I just read a news report about a couple who grossly neglected their babies....including nearly starving them to death. The parents were allegedly "addicted" to internet based video games...seems they would not break their reward-seeking behavior to tend to their children's most basic needs... Leave a comment

So, I have just discovered the minor miracle of power/construction equipment and party rental businesses ( Read more... )

Traffic was heavy on University Ave this morning as I headed in to teach class ( Read more... )

This is an example of the type of beauty that inspired the Taj Mahal. Also an excellent example of how that which is hidden is ever so much more desirable than that which is always on display.

SP's beloved bear has been found!

We are a fortunate family to have been spared from a fire by our sweet adopted basset hound AND to be reunited with one of the most beloved teddy bears in the history of human childhood.

If there is not God, I will never know.

According to "relationship experts" (psychology and/or sociology reasearchers who have devoted their careers to understanding how marriages fail) here are 15 questions couples should ask (or wish they had) before marrying. I got this from the New York Times ( Read more... )

I very stupidly fell asleep (unintentionally) with eggs boiling on my stove ( Read more... )

There is an older lady who lives near me who has the most perfectly manicured lawn and bushes. Her landscaping practically seems coiffed. She spends a lot of time sweeping her walk and washing her exterior windows until they shine. I gather that she is either a widow or divorced, and she seems lonely to me...as if she has no better way to spend ( Read more... )

SP lost her beloved toy of all toys; the bear that she has slept with pretty much every night since she was 3 years old. Snowy the very dirty and bedraggled white bear travels back and forth between Mommy's house and Daddy's house in SP's backpack. We think Snowy fell out or wasn't properly placed inside when I picked her up last night ( Read more... )

For many years I have been plagued by an odd nightmare. I am taking a flight out of the country. I arrive at the airport, and I don't have a passport. Somehow I forgot that one was necessary. Nor do I have any way of getting a passport in time to be able to make my flight. I must have missed dozens of dream flights over the years due to my ( Read more... )