Just For Fun Friday 11/01/13
The Morning After I don’t know why I bother. I live in an area in the country where there are 8-10 houses, 200 feet apart, on a dirt road, then nothing for about a half mile, then another smattering of homes. There’s a trailer park down the road, too. I see children in the mornings, gathered at […]
My First Lesson
Mrs. Pruett, ninth grade English, Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1962-63. This is always my answer when asked “Who was your favorite teacher?” She made us work. We were the accelerated English class, and she stocked one of those metal storage cabinets in the corner of the classroom with 10th, 11th, and 12th grade English textbooks for us […]
Just For Fun Friday 10/25/13
What’s in a Word? It seems that bad editing has been the nightmare of publishers for a long time… From 2201 Fascinating Facts by David Louis – “In the history of printing, several early English Bibles are famous not so much for their workmanship or their beauty as for their textual idiosyncrasies. A few famous […]
…Made to be Broken
For 40 years my day job has been in an industry that is, by any standard, over-regulated. Regulations change on a daily basis, and I am constantly subject to audits and compliance reviews. I’m the enforcer, too, so I’m the bad guy when it comes to instruction and remanding. When I leave my office for the […]
Just For Fun Friday 10/18/13
I Hate Housework… Housework is the ultimate exercise in futility. It is never completely done. When someone asks “are you a full-time housekeeper?”, as if part-time were an option, I have to bite my tongue. THERE is someone who doesn’t do housework. Take my ex-husband. I got up with him at six every morning, and while […]
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