Last Saturday, my dear brother stopped by to drop off a little project that our mother had asked me to do. When I completed the task, I mentioned to my brother in a matter-of-fact way that I planned to go to campus to complete a project of my own, and it was long-overdue: assembling [...]
When I think of the word courage I think of:•My father serving as a young U.S. Marine during the four-year Korean War Conflict, having given up a football scholarship in order to do so•My Uncle Sam, following his service in WWII, beating up a sheriff in the South for not answering to the word, “boy”, [...]
Anyone who knows me well will tell you: There are few things I enjoy more than cleaning my apartment. Of course, there are days when I am feeling rushed and tired and not quite up to the task. On those days, I will do a cursory cleaning job, just enough to get rid of the [...]
Many of us are aware of the phrase, “the world is flat.” And, some of us may have read the book of the same name which has popularized the phrase. The book and the phrase have spearheaded such initiatives as “The Flatworld Project”, which are designed to bring students from different parts of the world [...]
Several months ago, the student and faculty body at my school viewed, “An Inconvenient Truth.” As a school which encourages students to question, and to seek multiple perspectives, one of the students took issue with the fact that many of his peers have taken the content of “An Inconvenient Truth” as fact. Well, [...]
In a recent ‘Net surf, I came across this website. The opening slide show is graphic; it contains photos of lynchings. However, seeing these photos, even one, is the only way to come to even a remote understanding as to why the “N” word should not be used or tolerated. So, I invite [...]
I have filled my brain with so much information re: Web 2.0 that my head hurts.And, I’m supposed to be on vacation, resting, engaging other aspects of my life beyond school. However, unlike my computer, my brain cannot and does not seem to power down into rest/sleep mode. I’m always thinking. And, what has occupied [...]
Ok. It’s been almost a week since I posted the first installment regarding my situation at the supermarket.
Here is what I did: I dragged my tired, hungry body and the two bags of groceries out of my warm car, into the cold, and back into the supermarket. I proceeded to the checkout station and [...]
Is this school district taking things too far, or does it make a valid point re: the use of hate language in our culture? Read the entire story here .
Between you, me and a goal post, adults and kids alike have grown all-too comfortable in their use of profanity and biased language, and have [...]
Regular visitors to my blog know that I was diagnosed recently with gallstones. That, along with Irritable Bowel Syndrome, have made it especially difficult to eat a wide variety of foods since my bout with stomach flu and gastritis in early February. Anyway, I had my first bite of adult food today: scallops, a baked [...]
