I'm just going to post this (pretty much) as it came to me (please pass it on!):Cocoa Mulch Warning for Dog OwnersYesterday one of our dog agility friends experienced a tragedy and wanted me to pass a special message along...
Summer is around the corner. By "summer" I do not mean the actual season of summer. I mean "summer" as in "the days between May 30 and August 1 when I do not have to go to work." Any teacher...
Thank you so much for the congratulations, well-wishes, warnings, and cloaked confusions. (Note: If you were completely taken aback by the lack post, not to fret--I never mentioned even the appearance of such a thing on the blog up to...
I'm a guy who, despite my affinity for technology and my ease in acceptance of constant change in that arena, tends to find myself resistant to change in general, particularly when it does not come by my choice. Working...
Leaving the Wedding Originally uploaded by josiahq. Three years ago today April & I were married. It's been an absolutely crazy and wonderful trip. April you're my favorite person, my best friend, and...
I am recovering from a long afternoon of grading. Tonight I will be attending a banquet for our juniors and seniors. I have a long weekend in front of me with pretty much constant activity. So who knows when I...
Our 8-year-old granddaughter Christina brought a video with her for the family to watch after Sunday dinner. "Grandmother," she said, eyes wide, "there are some places in this that are really, really scary." (The film, The Land Before Time, is...
I think the Christian & Conservative Right has put the cart before the horse by failing to understand that their tenants of "Faith and Family" are liberties gauranteed by the Bill of Rights and not the Bill of Rights...
I'm pretty sure that the Chinese food I just ate -- purchased from the food court at the underutilized outlet mall that houses our offices -- has made me sick. I went to bed early last night, woke up upbeat,...
My buddy Ned is just a head, and just a head is he. And he's a mighty fine friend to have, despite anatomy. My buddy Ned is just a head, but never is he glum. To hear him yell it's hard to tell that he has no...
As I was just remarking to the wife this morning, the opposition party in 2008, and maybe as early as 2006, will likely not be the Democratic Party. It will be Republicans/conservatives who will have evolved from "disgruntled" to...
You scored as Emergent/Postmodern. You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have...
Is Curtis Adams campaigning on school property? Is this legal? Is he suggesting that the students and faculty at Spring Creek Elementary, pictured above, support his campaign. Mr. Adams surely knows his sign is on school property. Remove the...
Highlights are the title track, "Beachcombing," "This is Us," "Donkey Town," "Belle Starr," and "If This is Goodbye." Oh wait, thats over half the album! The other half is great too. This album is basically what you get when you...
“Of course the big change since my day is the invasion of women in men’s colleges. … I suppose I’m a little suspicious of it: one’s always suspicious of change. One wonders what the effect will be on what is,...
Show preview for Essex Green. (the show is this Sunday, 5/14) In other prose and cons news, I received my first piece of fanmail thru Myspace. This came from David in The Holding Pattern: Good to see you on here, David. I've been trying...
War games with China... Selling night-vision and jamming equipment to Iraq... Selling nuclear reactors to Iran... Now Russia is beginning to rebuild their forces claiming that they're doing so because they're wanting to counter us? Hmm...I've been weary of Russia for a while, especially...
The 23rd Psalm is perhaps the most read, most studied section of scripture in the Book. Most of us have it memorized. If not, we've certainly heard it enough to recognize it when it is being read. One part caught...
I'm not a power user on flickr so I'm posting a few pics from my new digital camera on here. This one is a surprise breakfast for Mom for her birthday: And these are from graduation and afterwards. That's Sam back...
Check out Brad and Tucker as they attempt to pose for a photo for Mother's Day. Good video to loosen up with as one prepares for an interview. (More stuff from the guys here. Good cubicle world time wasters.) ...
This week has been a week of "lasts." Half the time I dont notice them, but they are happening all around me. Last class. Last staff meeting. Last prayer meeting. Last instance of a Wednesday afternoon routine. Possibly the last...
Ever notice how people with big noses have a "striking" profile? At least that's what people say. As in, "Bill certainly has a striking profile." Likewise, I've heard "striking nose," which sounds like a blacksmith's tool. When a person has...
This Sunday is Mother's Day. As I think about Mother's Day, I am thinking to myself Sunday really should be Women's Day. As we marvel at our mothers, we really should think about women. Women are professionals, they work hard...
My family has always worked hard, and continues to. My mother, wife, and mother-in-law especially mean much to me at this time of the year--MOTHER'S DAY--for they have given my life joy, constancy, and light. There are so many other...
Here's Chattanooga Times cartoonist Bruce Plante's response to Mr. Adams' remarks. Plante cartoon in today's Times Free Press. My Response to "Adams Family Values" at Chattanoogan.Com and His Reaction--Along with Eleven Responses to Adams Letters to the Times Free Press If you believe as...
So the whole airport day was pretty wretched on a whole. I can focus on how it went wrong or the blessings and in the end I chose the latter. But only after I complained and once again acted baffled...
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