What Is It With These People??

Posted by on Sep 23, 2009 in dish | 0 comments I don’t know what they’re drinking in Tallahassee, but apparently now there’s yet ANOTHER test we have to administer our kids to find out what’s up with their godforsaken reading scores. This one’s computer-based, though, and will take up two day’s worth of class time that I now can’t spend instructing them. Yeah, that makes sense.You see, apparently the...
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10 Things You Think Are Cool

Posted by on Sep 15, 2009 in dish | 0 comments Facebook. Amazingly, it erases years and awkward social boundaries.iPhones. Totally want one, but will wait patiently for T-Mobile to get its act together.My kids. They are wonderfully talented and funny, and sometimes I wonder how it’s possible that I’m their mom.Convertibles. Once I owned my first (a 1991 Mercury Capri), I was hooked for life.British humor. The world is a better...
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Carb Coma

Posted by on Sep 13, 2009 in dish | 0 comments Today we had the second annual “Lasagna Throwdown” to benefit the music department at the church, and we’re all comatose from the great food! Mexican lasagnas, traditional lasagnas, seafood lasagnas, sauces, more pasta, desserts…the South Beach people would be appalled. But we were happy!Even more fun, some of us performed the Silent Monks’ version of the Hallelujah...
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10 Bad Habits You Can’t Break

Posted by on Sep 8, 2009 in dish | 0 comments ProcrastinatingChewing my cuticlesRelying on deadline adrenalineAvoiding financial issuesNot carrying cashFacebooking too muchDitto with infosnackingLetting the laundry pile upAvoidance behaviorsNot exercising
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Much Ado About Nothing: Presidential Speech Edition

Posted by on Sep 8, 2009 in dish | 0 comments Just in case you’ve been camping on the moon for the past couple of weeks, today President Obama delivered his socialist agenda brainwashing speech to innocent children, better known to those of us who actually use our brains to think as a Presidential Back-to-School address. Seems President Obama, who knows from both his and the First Lady’s backgrounds that a solid education is the...
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R.I.P. Reading Rainbow

Posted by on Aug 28, 2009 in dish | 0 comments Book lovers, get out your black armbands. Today was the last broadcast of PBS’s wonderful children’s series Reading Rainbow.For those of us weaned on The Electric Company and Sesame Street, the advent of Reading Rainbow occurred after we’d progressed from picture books to chapters. Even so, it was easy to get sucked in when a younger sibling or eventually a child of our own...
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