I can’t bring myself to watch President Bush speak; he is far too annoying and comes across as an embarrasing simpleton.  So, I did not actually watch the State of the Union address; rather, I read it.  Reading it saves me from yelling nasty four-letter words at the television screen while watching our President speak [...]

This morning, I received a very insightful lesson from my five-year-old, Collin, on the method for extinguishing a fire if your body is burning. This was great review from my own 1977 kindergarten lesson on the same topic. It seems, in 30+ years, we have the Internet, Botox as mainstream, iPods, and more; however, we [...]

In an effort to save money (and to sell out to corporate America), I just received a few boxes of books from Barnes and Noble. These comprise most of the books I will be reading next semester for my course work. I’m a bit afraid of how I will possibly get through all of these [...]

I mentioned in an earlier post that I am reading a book over my semester break called Rhetorical Listening, about which I will write a book review.  Well, as I am finishing it up, I came across a passage in the text that was so compelling–I have to share it.  To provide some context, all [...]

The best way to ring in the New Year is a week of your entire family throwing up with the stomach flu.  Yes, the stomach flu.  It started last Friday (the 23rd) with Collin; I puked Christmas Eve and Christmas day.  We had a brief reprieve until last night when Doug started to vomit.  So [...]