Collecting My Thoughts

2291 Could they explain how they do this? Laureate International Universities , based in Baltimore, runs 24 for-profit universities in 15 ...

2290 Things get ugly if you try to protect children at a public library these days. Try to add filters to computers to block explicitly se...

2289 My new Cat's Meow I collect Cat's Meow lighthouses--there are far more produced than what I have, and I haven't found an...

2288 Workshops for guitarists in Ohio Back in the 80s I thought I'd learn to play the guitar--it was part of my "mid-life crisis...

2287 The National Security Strategy of the United States of America The WSJ says that "promoting democracy has become the central th...

2286 I've learned a new coding trick--I think Blue Star Beth and her sisters and cousins and brothers are always adding fancy stuff to...

Thirteen things about my date to the St. Patrick's Ball 1. Balls at the University of Illinois were usually sponsored by a campus wide o...

2284 Why teachers have more voice problems When I was browsing the internet looking for vocal warm-ups and singing tips, I came across th...

The Chapin Sisters I had a pleasant surprise today visiting Natalie's Thursday Thirteen. She is a record/performer/music buff (lov...

2281 My ridiculous invention Glenn Beck was doing an over the top routine on the new Idol show about inventions. Like the watch alarm th...

2280 Help us plan our trip I get a brain freeze when it comes to trip planning. I'm pretty good at the "Why don't we. . . ...

2279 Harvey's unhappy He decided on his 40th birthday to come out to his doctor, a major emotional breakthrough for him*. He was dis...

2278 Recruiting hospitalists The term "hospitalist" first appeared about 10 years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine . ...

2278 Why would you do this? If I ever write a Thursday 13 about foods I can't cook, rice-anything would be at the top of my list. Thir...

2277 Have they no shame? This morning I went to the sweeper repair shop to pick up my wonderful Panasonic vacuum cleaner and noticed the ...

Monday Memories Have I ever told you I was horse crazy when I was a little girl? During 1949 and 1950, when I wasn’t hanging out at the l...

2275 My best student Last summer I taught blogging at the coffee shop in Lakeside. It was not an overwhelming success. Having something...

2274 Catholic parents: what are you paying for? Sometimes Glenn Beck is really the "sick twisted freak" he calls himself. Howe...

2273 Show the bump maternity fashion is just ugly There. I've said it and I'm not sorry. Clingy, tight maternity fashions showi...

The 2006 Auto Show This afternoon we went downtown, parked in a wet garage (there had been flood watches earlier), and walked to our ugly...