Q&A
Melanie from Just a Bump on the Beltway offered an interview to her readers. I bit. 1. Someone new is coming for dinner at your invitation. What will you cook and why? I always grill out, vegetables mainly but sometimes a chicken with an awesome barbeque sauce. If it isn’t grilling out, it’s something simple [...]
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via Rana Your Linguistic Profile: 75% General American English 25% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern 0% Yankee What Kind of American English Do You Speak? I have no idea how this happened. I must talk too proper. And this one is total crap: You Are A Cedar Tree You are elegant yet unpretentious, modest [...]
...read moreFighting On Ground Of Our Choosing
Sometimes, our enemies are stupid enough to pick a fight where almost everyone is for us and against them. As the far right overreaches, this becomes increasingly common. From the great Alas, A Blog, I picked this up. There is soon to be a Human Papilloma Virus vaccine. HPV increases womens’ risk of cervical cancer. [...]
...read moreNPM: Lucille Clifton
It’s a late night here working on the final touches of my you-will-love-poetry-dammit unit designed for tenth graders. The oolong tea isn’t holding me up any longer. And my back hurts. Ms. Clifton, however, may be my saving grace. wishes for sons i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last [...]
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Pablo got a few novel trips outdoors this week to sniff every square inch of the backyard. At times this also meant pruning dead branches off the pink-blooming bush at the corner of the house. Methodically. Obsessively. Now all Pablo wants to do is go outside. He thinks he can butter me up, but unbeknownst [...]
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