NY Times: Having Children Does Not Make You Any Happier Than Not Having Children, Sometimes Less Happy

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/why-does-anyone-have-children/

I'm moving back to Buffalo May 2008 ( Read more... )

I was working at Park School today (K-1 elementary school) and while I was taking my class of first graders back to their rooms after lunch, two girls tell me about how yesterday at recess, some boys had choked them with hula-hoops for fun. They didn't look too upset about it, and were giggling as if it were some game. They said that the boys were ( Read more... )

PS My other and I made pear butter over the weekend, from the million tons of pears from my sister's pear tree. I'm eating it right now and it tastes like love.

US economic troubles are really leading me to believe that the powers that be are just not that coordinated.

Or maybe that's what they want us to think.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has drafted a rule that would call it abortion when a contraceptive prevents a fertilized egg from embedding itself in the uterine wall ( Read more... )

1. don't smoke
2. exercise
3. Have a decent diet that's nutritious, instead of one that just tastes good.
4. have good genetics.
5. stop making your environment so toxic.
6. Die when you are supposed to.

There, that was easy. I don't see what all the fuss is about.

So today, I was dead ( Read more... )

school. applebees. school. sleep. applebees. test on nervous system. bone practical. nervous system. Nursing school. No more teaching. school. applebees. coffee from McDonalds. caffiene is like crack, is just as impressive. I need to get high. school. applebees. sleep. drive a stick. DiY, then go back home. I want to make tea, but can't find the ( Read more... )

God I must be insane....I'm taking TWO HIGHLY INTENSIVE summer classes at the same time. Anatomy and Physiology(which is hard hard HARD), and lifespan development(LOTS of reading, and it's a telecourse, so I have to actually do it ( Read more... )