Old school verbiage in new school scenarios
Heather Carreiro wrote a post entitled 20 Obsolete English Words that Should Make a Comeback, and while I don’t think that all of them are worthy of my time, a…
Arizona shooting recap
Just for the record: 1. I do not blame Sarah Palin for the attempted assassination in Arizona. 2. I think that Sarah Palin’s gun sight website was incredibly stupid, dangerous…
Susan Patricia McKenna: 1950-2007
Today is the anniversary of my mother’s death. I wrote a post on the day that she died.____________________________________________Mom passed away this morning.Ironically, I spent last night in ICU with her…
One definition too many
I can’t bring myself to use the word seminal. There are moments when I'ave wanted to refer to a seminal moment in my life or the seminal idea of a…
She reappeared with this.
She spent about an hour cursing the sewing machine, and she was significantly less chatty for a couple days last week (almost disappearing entirely for a period of time), but…
Jumper-talker-downer for hire
Another job I wouldn't mind adding to my list of occupations is jumper-talker-downer. You know, the ones who talk people out of jumping off buildings and bridges. I think I…
Fear not the Christmas tree, for your methods of indoctrination are far more powerful than tinsel and colored lights.
Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, in writing about the Jewish conundrum of how to handle Santa Claus and the Christmas tree with their impressionable children, writes: One needn't be virulently anti-Christmas to…
iCarly trumps Robert Frost and Val Kilmer
I am reading Shakespeare’s Richard II to my students. On Friday we came across the phrase “rue the day” in the text. I was prepared to tell them all about…
A land of ice cream and death
Last night I dreamt of a world made entirely of ice cream. Nice. Right? Not like those struggle-to-the-death dreams that I so frequently have. Except, of course, the ice cream…
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