This time, it’s Paul Newman, an actor and a person I greatly admired. He really tried to live his values. People like him are rare… and seem more rare in the world of movie stars. Google News Article My heart is full for his family.
Month: September 2008
Out of Touch and Out of Time
The headline right now at CNN reads “Grim Bernanke Offers Grave Threats.” The premise is, apparently, that unless the Federal Government gives money — with no strings attached — to the companies that caused this whole economic mess the economy will take a huge downturn. Newsflash for Mr. Bernanke: The economy took a huge downturn […]
Letter to the Editor (unpublished)
This weekend, I wrote a letter to our community’s newspaper. They won’t publish anything unless they put the post office address address for the person, which can lead to unsolicited contacts from disturbed persons. Another stupid bureaucratic rule, administered by an automaton. We are somehow in the phone book — though our number was supposed […]
Books I am Reading
Many Children Left Behind Subtitled “How the No Child Left Behind Act is Damaging our Children and our Schools.” by Deborah Meier et al. This was published in 2004, but the comments by people from many aspects of the education world are still pretty current. If anything, they have more meaning as time has gone […]
Today’s Headline
… “Fall Brings First Dusting Of Snow In Cascades” Well, okay, not really a headline, a byline this afternoon. Still, here it is, the first day of autumn (after a late and short spring and short, intermittent summer), and already we have white stuff in some of the passes. Not a lot, dusting is the […]
Garden Update
It is raining. The plants are happy. Me? Not so. Finally felt well enough to garden, but no use stirring up mud. It compacts the soil too much. Still, the fence is holding up well. Tom made one minor repair Thursday, and we have small squash forming already. There is a cuke ready to harvest, […]
Trying something new
This is an idea that some friends use in their garden. They stick rebar in the ground, then put electrical conduit over that. Zip-tie bird netting to the “posts” and it’s too scary for the deer. Never mind that a sneeze can break the netting… They touch it with their noses and won’t try to […]
Broken First Page
I don’t know why the main page of this site dropped one of the sidebars — something I did in the last post (goal organiser) I assume! I will try to fix it when I have the time.
Goal Organiser
I am putting the pictures in as thumbnails and in gallery form — click on the small pics to get the full-size views! Use your browser’s back button to come back. An acquaintance of mine (Kate Hudson – not the actress) developed this really cool program to help organize goals — with the ability to […]
Kids on Parade
Well, sort of. The high school band plays for football games. The first game of the year was Friday, no uniforms yet…