Catching Up – publishing posts

I was amazed when I went in to make a post this week that I had started a bunch of posts but never finished them. I know not many people read this blog, just the loyal few (thanks Mom!), but still, it is my writing venue and I promised myself I would write.
So here are [...]

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Flowers from Little Hands

Today on the way into school, my toddler stopped an picked the last flower from a petunia plant that was obviously suffering from the frost we had had the night before. “Here,” she said, thrusting it at me, “take it to work.”
So I did. It sat on my keyboard, and I thought about all the [...]

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Dark Underbelly of Technology

I was overdoing the reading on the Internet a few weeks ago, mainly due to my discovery of the RSS aggregator, which brings the world of arcane and obscure news to one place for me to read. (Needless to say, this has been discontinued as a major time sink).
I ran across an article, from WIRED [...]

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Ding Dong, The Election is Over!

Yesterday was election day here in the US, and in my state, there was a really nasty race for governor going on. Virginia is somewhat unusual in that it is our state law that a governor cannot succeed himself or herself in that position, a kind of one-time term limit. Thank goodness for that. No [...]

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Jimmy Carter: Alaska National Wildlife Refuge

“The United States invented the national park. Have we so lost our way a century later that we are prepared to sacrifice a one-of-a-kind wilderness for a shot at a small and temporary supply of oil? Similarly, are we so desperate for a fast buck that the other natural treasures in Alaska are for sale [...]

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Molly Ivins: Conservatives

“I like conservatives. They’re opposed to all questionable adventures abroad and for fiscal prudence and responsibility. It’s the right-wing nuts I can’t stand.”
–Molly Ivins, Funny Times, June 2005 (quoted in Utne, 10/2005)

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Death and Life

I recently had the privelege of participating in a children’s play recounting the folk tale of Visalia’s quest for fire. For those of you not familiar with the tale, a young woman is sent to a fearful creature to ask for a coal to restart a fire.
This creature, the Baba Yaga, has a shifting face [...]

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