Archive for April, 2007

Poverty Post II

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I am noticing that more and more families in my town are living in poverty. The type of poverty that I am seeing inside the city limits was confined to pockets of dismal wooden shacks out in the country […]

My Four Hours a Week in Poverty

I wish I had pictures, because then I wouldn’t have to write the thousand words. It would be rude to take them, though. The homebound student whom I am tutoring lives in poverty. I am glad to be a witness to this, because now poverty in the US is not an abstract thing to me. […]

Pharma Greed

Sage has had this respiratory thing that has been going around. I took him to the doctor today to determine whether or not he needed antibiotics for the ongoing fever and cough that he has had since Friday. While I was there, I asked the doctor to refill Sage’s inhaler, which both of us use […]

Some Kind of Jacked Up

I can see where NWA got their attitude. Since being on the “wrong side of the law” with my son, I have had new experiences that really lead me to dislike living in Texas, and particularly in this town. If these are the sorts of experiences that the people ranting about the police have […]

Snow Day

Here is a pic of Sage and me. Check out the Easter Lily Sage is holding! This is the first time it has snowed in my area in April in recorded history. We get an inch or so every five years as it is. Too cool.

Easter Rant

I read this article about how offended people were over an exhibit of a life-size chocolate Jesus depicted hanging from an invisible cross. I agree that the “My Sweet Lord” display is in extremely poor taste–did I really just type that horrible pun?!? Seriously. It is offensive.
What is even more offensive is this:

Amazon.com has this […]

20 Seconds of Fame

I burnt my face sunbathing on Sunday, so I haven’t been wearing much make-up the past couple of days. I burnt my arms too, and today, I dressed very comfortably. In fact, I looked like I was going to the beach. I could have washed my hair this morning, but I chose to make […]

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