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Wednesday, July 5, 2006

A Blogger Who Was Ready to Quit, but Didn't.........................

We had to trade cars this week. I found myself in the sales managers office telling him about how the car they sold me three years ago had helped to change a life. My 17 year-old, three years ago, was very listless and not sure about continuing her education. From there, to where she is now --... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 2, 2006

These BLOGGERS Have Gone Over the Edge............................

I am mad as hell. I'm not ready to back down! My daughter and I were having a nice living room chat this afternoon. She asked me to please fix the meatloaf. I said, so where's the meat? In the freezer of course. Well, I didn't make the meatloaf. So, we sat and sipped our drinks with the TV off. It... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 1, 2006

Bloggers Study the Code, But Do Not Learn From It......................

I've been reading what one blogger experiences at university as an adult. I had the same experience returning for my MA and EdSpec degrees after the age of thirty. It was a pristine learning experience, my undergrad days interspersed with adolescent anxiety exacerbated by alcohol. It was a joy to be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 30, 2006

The Devil Cares in Prada...................................................

Thank God for the cell phones. There we were, my 17 year-old and me, stuck in traffic on the interstate and absolutely free, when brother John calls to ask if the movie outing was still on for Friday night. Well, the only way was to tell him to meet us at the mall, then to send baby back home with... Sign in to see full entry.

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Have you Ever Had a Blogger Die in your Arms? I Have.................

The 12 year old boy who died yesterday at Disneyworld in Orlando, died of congenital heart failure. It was not some grisly miscarriage of maintenance or fate. It was his heart. In 1968, my brother and I attended basketball camp on the Trannsylvania College Campus, Lexington, KY. Several days of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Bloggers' Failure to Launch................................................

After a harrowing day of transporting first one daughter to her jobsite and then the other, to be followed up by several innings of the Redsox game (don't they look terrific this year without Johnny Damon?) and then the daughter retrieval, I sit here in the basement, one load of laundry going and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 29, 2006

All's Quiet and Clean on the Western Front.................................

It's nearly five o'clock in the morning and I haven't been to bed. We cleaned house. The bathroom looks much better. As my youngest daughter told me tonight, all newer houses have exhaust fans in the bathrooms to prevent the recurring mildew from forming. I said why don't we just crack the window... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Blogger Asks Primordial Anthropomorphic Questions About Life

You know, I am having the time of my life this summer. I thought this was going to be a super-disaster summer what with having a legal action pending all spring. I thought me and my kids were going to be home staring at the walls all summer, wondering why we even tried. But it has not been that way... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 26, 2006

Blogger has locked herself in the basement and refuses to come out!

I am crouched in the basement reading and commenting and laughing my ass off. I wonder why we don't all just go sleep and dream a while. I guess I will. But I'm waiting for the thump of hip-hop music to stop in one room upstairs, and the thump of country and western music to stop in the other... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 25, 2006

Blogger Creates Stagflation on Blogit!

As most of you have written about and discussed this summer, I am trying to figure out how the deflation in Blogit! numbers happened. Anyone remember that fateful morning when Ariala finally made good on her pledge to stop competing for the number one slot? Well, that did it. It tood a month or so,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Traditonal life in American mainstream education. Area of concentration -- English as a Second Language. My take on the issues and "what really works" (when my kids let me log on).

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