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My favorite childhood author, Madeleine L’Engle, past away earlier this month. I read her Time Quartet when I was in late elementary/early middle school and devoured several more of her books that were not in the series. I had Kenny buy me the series again a couple of years but they had been collecting […]
The sculpture in the mosaic is called The Sphere. It was situated at the base of the World Trade Center and survived the collapse of both towers. Its temporary home is in Battery Park but it will be moved back once the new towers are built.
It stands as a testament to the strength of the […]
This will probably be my only commentary on the Virginia Tech tragedy but I wanted to post it. Robert Siegel, an NPR host, gave this two minute commentary that completely hits the mark on an issue that has been on my mind as I have heard and read the enormous amount of articles on the […]
I am not a Beyoncé devotee nor have I ever even listened to her music (I only recognized 2 of the songs) but I had a chance to attend her concert last night via a friend who is a Rodeo volunteer. I must say that she is a wonderful performer. Her dance moves are athletic […]
Political Correctness Run Amuck
Closed Published by cybertoad March 15th, 2007 on Cybertoad's Blog on LifeSeen on a bumper sticker this morning…
{insert name of school} Elementary…
…where all our students are honor roll students.
OK, this is too much. How much protecting do our children need? Life sucks, some kids are smarter than others, deal with it. We aren’t doing them any favors with this type of hand-holding and the kids need […]