I just got back from a 2-weeker in California… but not the California that you would think of; I was pretty much next door to Death Valley living out of tents and spinning up for my next hiatus to my favorite vacation spot. And believe me, I really felt like [...]
Seems to be a trend item that festers in the entire Middle Eastern culture…
The rising price of oil has been hard to miss lately, in the news and on the wallet. It seems everywhere you turn, people are running around yelling “the sky is falling!” or more appropriately “oil is rising!” Hell, even CNN has an entire section dedicated to it. There seems [...]
I don’t watch the news too often, I mostly get it from the internet. Pam likes to watch the evening news in the background as we eat dinner, so I’ll usually lend half-an-ear to that in case there is anything new going on that I missed. While [...]
….or 3rd graders.
I was seeing a group of third graders for therapy when we got side-tracked and started talking about the war in Iraq. I asked them if they knew why we were fighting this war. My insightful girl who studiously works on her /r/ sound stated: [...]
Not only are the students at the high school I work at trying to blow it up (that story posted here) , now they are trying to burn it down. Today we had our THIRD fire within a week. Click here for story.
Eighteen days and counting…
I didn’t think I’d be posting again on Trav’s site any time soon but I felt a need to post about an “epiphany” I had in lieu of recent events. Now, epiphany may not be the right word (just ask John the Irishman, he always seems to get a [...]
I’ll go ahead and jump on the bandwagon of everyone throwing out their thoughts on the VA Tech shooting. Yesterday, I was aware of what was going on from the news, but due to work and an upcoming TDY to prep for, I really didn’t have time to dig into [...]
And round and round we go again. This time, all nations participating walk away with the false satisfaction that they’ve reached an agreement. My opinion: I don’t think so, Tim. Seriously? I’d love for everything to be alright in “the Land of the Not-Quite Right.” [...]
Pam’s been working mainly at the inner-city high school in Savannah now for almost 2 months. She dreads it and I don’t blame her. In fact, here’s what Wikipedia has to say about Savannah city schools (I bring out what I want to stress here in bold; Pam’s [...]
