Categotry Archives: Day to Day Life
Reply to a Squawk
Lisa Kleypas has a concern that she put on Squawk Radio. She’s worried about large-scale illiteracy. I believe I come from a uniquely pertinent point of view. But for the grace of God I would now be nearly illiterate. The same level of illiterate as Michael Rogers advocates. Reading was always hard for me, made harder by poor social skills and some issues which I have no intention of discussing here. When I hit 6th grade I still struggled with […]
Gerbil TV
I suppose it’s about time I answered the question. What is Gerbil TV? Keep in mind that my family gave up cable TV a few years ago. We still get broadcast, when the weather is good, and rent videos a fair amount, but we don’t do any channel surfing. Last year we went to the pet store and got a couple of gerbils for my daughter. Gerbils are fun to watch. They are sociable creatures who get along much better […]
Grazing
My son gave me a bunch of little kisses while I was saying good bye one morning. These rapid-fire kisses can be a bit annoying, a bit like a cow grazing. I was going to complain, which I have done before, when he looks at me with big bovine eyes and says “mooo”. Alice
Happy Halloween!
The kids are off to play and I’m sitting here with an enormous bowl of candy. Hmmmm…… Alice
Hired by Email
We have dialup service. Two of us entered the FanLit contest which means for the last six weeks our phone line has been constantly tied up. We have received complaints about it from employers, teachers, doctors, family members, and friends. I didn’t care. I was busy writing, submitting, rating, commenting, inviting, and generally having a grand old time. Little did I know we almost cost my husband a new job. Luckily the same medium that messed us up saved us. […]
Talk To Me
Tell me what you think of what’s on my Welcome page, or on your own blog, or something totally off topic. I don’t care. Leave a comment here and check back in a few hours. I will probably have replied.
