When I got home yesterday a book I ordered had arrived in the mail. Honestly, I spend MORE of my discretionary income on books than absolu...

I have a lot of friends who are more tuned into celebrity-worship than I am so I am appealing to you for an answer. In this article we ha...

I read today that Tommy Bolt died. This is sad to me and I never met him; on top of that, he lived a long, full life. Tommy Bolt was a great...

Thank you Slate Magazine . As an English teacher I have been wondering about this word: "Where does the expression to vet come from? I...

I have recently pulled off the shelf my battered copy of Peggy Noonan's What I Saw At The Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Er...

I totally adore Shepard Smith; he cracks me up. Last week during the Democratic Convention he was streaming live on the "internets...

I don't know WHAT I was thinking but I decided to take a random look at the Huffington Post today. I guess with the RNC coming up tonigh...

Now that Gustav has settled itself into a nice, relaxing rain, I'm anxious to get back to the Republican National Convention. I watched...

On the weather front, things seem to be okay. It's raining now but it's just a slow, steady rain; good sleeping weather. The ...

While waiting for Gustav to arrive I was reading online and came across this article that caught my eye. It's all about the decline of ...

I got out a little bit this morning to run some errands before the deluge arrives. I had to get mom's car inspected and I wanted to go ...

Update - Sun. p.m.: It's the calm before the storm I guess. Local weather dudes are predicting 35 mph sustained winds from mid-day tom...

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal just closed schools in 30 parishes (including mine) through Wednesday because of Hurricane Gustav . Our loc...

"We've taken in all the balcony furniture, all the pool furniture, the marquees, tied up what needs to be tied up, cut down any coc...

LSU opens its season today against Appalachian State. The 4pm game was moved to 10 a.m. because of incoming Hurricane Gustav, and will be b...

When I heard that Sarah Palin was John McCain's pick for VP, I have to admit, I kinda liked it. My friend Sarah in Atlanta has been pic...

Update: 4/28/09: Sorry - The Times link in this post is no longer active. I should have copy/pasted the article! I was saddened this m...

I am such a nerd-with-no-life that I had a huge time last night watching the Democratic Convention streaming over Fox News on the internet. ...

Is this picture making anyone else nervous? I wasn't in New Orleans during Katrina but Shreveport was bad enough. Steve was down there...

Rush Limbaugh cracks me up! On Barack Obama's now famous gaffe at the DNC last night, Limbaugh said, "The good news...is that Ob...

Honestly, this rat is so smart I'm going to hate killing it; well, not really. As you may remember, my mother saw a rat in her house a ...

For the past four weeks or so I've been taking my elderly mother to physical therapy twice a week for treatment on a compressed nerve wh...

There was an interesting article in the New York Times last month concerning what it means to read in the digital age. As an English teach...