Collecting My Thoughts

I've never been able to figure out how Donald Trump gets slammed with that racist meme. He called MS-13 thugs and terrorists. Well? Did ...

So, maybe you hadn't heard that rumor--that librarianship was young and hip. Well, I had, since I follow these things, although not as ...

Yesterday we received a Certificate of Merit. For doing not much of anything! Who do they think we are? The President of the United States...

Don't wear this to an awards event Especially not if you are. . . rather large and going to be in every photo from the top seller award ...

Notable Quotables of 2008 Everyone in the world probably laughed at, not with, Chris Matthew's tingly leg for Obama, so he got the big o...

Blogging raters A few days ago I got an e-mail congratulating me on my "personal blog" with a score of 7.2. I think that's ab...

Poets and Writers It's been a lot of years since I picked up a writing magazine. I used to write some fiction back in the mid-1990s. I...

Who's left? I used to stare at the list of 50 or so organizations on the campus willing to help me, a poor lil'ol weak, helpless fe...

The Emmys Primetime Emmy Awards “inexplicably attracted the franchise's smallest audience in its history. A mere 12.2 million viewers w...

Hand Hygiene A gift basket? I know that these days you need to award employees for using a tissue to sneeze, but this award sounds a bit ov...

understand glamor. Thank you Beyonce. 2008 Grammy awards And congratulations to one of my favorite groups, The Band , for their life time a...