The company we keep
A lot can be based in our perceptions of who we are, as well as others, in the old adage “ you are the company you keep”. Certainly there is some truth to that as we all know as parents, those our children play with and hang out with end up having a huge influence [...]
Chicken Soup for the Blogger’s Soul
For all bloggers passing by, here is a great chicken noodle soup recipe handed down to me by my mother. Most chicken noodle soup recipes on the Internet do not have pictures, just text. I thought pictures and text together would be a better way to explain the step by step process.
Ingredients (from above picture):
1/2 [...]
Very few Originals
I just handed out to my senior class the novel, ” Lord of the Flies”. They did not want to read it because it is spring, senioritis is not too far away, and they would rather be socializing or working, etc. Fortunately, they are still in school, must pass senior English to graduate in this [...]
Rites of Spring
It is that time of year Shakespeare called “our salad days” when life is refreshed and patterns nature in renewal and promise. Vivaldi represented spring with flighty cords and notes indicating the energy and optimism of youth. Emily Dickenson called it “a school yard” . It does not matter what represents the Vernal equinox, March [...]
Super Tuesday II - The Aftermath
With the Tues. primaries over it is very apparent that the Democratic party will now have to fight it out to see if Bill Clinton’s influence, in the party, still holds. Can he salvage his prior connections and help defeat the ever growing wave of Obama support and defiance to the “Good Old Guys” [...]