by admin | Mar 5, 2010 | Bright Lights
The highlights of our week have been that Mari Dog encountered her first skunk, and Bill had a cold which he graciously passed on to me. I was sitting at this desk paying bills Wednesday night and was vaguely aware of an unpleasant smell. When it hit me that it was a...
by admin | Feb 25, 2010 | Bright Lights
My maternal grandmother, Carrie Tate, with whom I spent many a summer and lots of family holidays in Olney, Texas, had this piece of furniture, a great big dining room buffet, that ran the length of one whole wall and was strategically located to be handy for...
by admin | Feb 19, 2010 | Bright Lights
I don’t know about your spring cleaning procedures, but in my house spring cleaning is erratic at best, non-existent more often than not. Which is not to say I have a dirty house; it may not be the cleanest every single day, but it is certainly not the...
by admin | Feb 11, 2010 | Bright Lights
As the years pass and time goes by, I suspect most teachers wish they had written down the funny things that happen in their classes that they are just sure they will remember, which of course, they don’t. I am at the top of that list, but here is one story that...
by admin | Feb 7, 2010 | Bright Lights
I just watched Temple Grandin on HBO. This is a heck of a movie about an amazing woman. I don’t even know where to start. Temple Grandin is a professor at Colorado State University, the designer of humane slaughterhouses and feedlot practices, and is...
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