Lou Diamond Phillips Shirtless

I’ve been watching Stargate Universe and felt the world needed more shirtless Lou Diamond Phillips. Enjoy!

Things I Learned In the Hospital

This past Monday I had my thyroid removed. In the words of my surgeon it was huge. I’m not sure if that’s a clinical term or not. I’d never had surgery of any kind before (unless you count having my wisdom teeth removed) so the night in the hospital was an adventure. So in light [...]

Gym teacher? Me?

So today I was a gym teacher. The phone rang at 7:40 this morning. It was a sub assignment, but all they told me was Itinerant Gym Teacher, middle school. Either I felt brave or I hadn’t completely woken up yet, but I took the assignment. Then I called to find out where I would [...]

Rock Star Is Out!

The Rock Star’s Retreat by Belle McClain
Cassandra Geoffrey runs In The Pines Campground six months of the year and spends the other six alone on the West Virginia mountain. She isn’t completely happy with situation, but she loves her wacky, close knit hometown and the man of her dreams doesn’t seem to be appearing.
Until he [...]

The magic of language

Sometimes, because I’m weird, I consider what has to happen for a person to read. Think about it, squiggles on paper that we have decided as a group mean certain sounds. We have further decided that those sounds mean a particular thing when coded together. Rearrange that same group and you get a different meaning. [...]

Embracing My Inner Geek

I woke up to unusually yucky weather this morning. Dreary, wet and cool. Not very August at all. Husband and I decided this would be a good day to camp in front of the TV and get some sorting tasks done. Do we know how to have fun or what? So I just spent all [...]

Goldilocks and the Three Pairs Of Bowling Shoes

Yeah, my whole life does revolve around other people’s children, but this was funnier than most anecdotes and had the built in funny title.
Chloe is one of those kids who craves attention and gets it by being annoying. Everyone is always teasing her, picking on her hitting her, etc. About 3/4ths of the time she’s [...]

Anvil: The Story of Anvil

I have been waiting with bated breath to see Anvil: the Story of Anvil – it’s research, I swear – and I finally got to see it. This movie is so much more than a documentary about an almost ran.
Anvil is a band that started to get big in the early 80’s with bands [...]

Meet Michael

My little broken bird Sarah has an older brother Michael. I see more of Michael because preschoolers get mixed with schoolagers on a regular basis. Same blond hair, same gray eyes, same dysfunctional family.
Today, when I turned my back for 20 seconds, Michael and another boy decided to dump out the Legos, the Kinetics and [...]

Foresight – er Forehearing – Forewarning?

On my 21st birthday I had an experience with foresight. Actually it was forehearing. I didn’t see anything, but I heard a car accident about 8 hours before it happened.
That summer I was driving a mail truck for my dad. Since the truck only had an AM radio, my brother had given me a set [...]