These days I have to constantly remind myself that regular folks are not in the intense information loop I am in on the H1N1 virus. Regular folks are worrying about regular things and this topic is just barely beginning to hit their radar with the recent additional attention it has been given in the mainstream [...]
Author: Ms. C
Coo, coo, ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson
One of the grad students I work with informed me that he is dating an older woman. He calls her his “cougar”. She is two years older than him. When I laughed out loud at the comment he hurriedly said, “Her birthday is coming up soon.” As if the additional year cemented her cougar status [...]
Perception is everything…
What can you do ultimately but laugh at some things? A case in point from the Noah files. When Noah was in middle school he was accused of being in a fight with another kid at school. Being the non-violent type, I was appropriately horrified. The vice principal performed an investigation to ascertain who threw [...]
I’ve been given clearance…
Today is the first day of fifth grade for Cheyenne. It is a big day that takes me all the way back to the first day of kindergarten - times four. With three children that are over twenty-one, I have already lived these moments before. Surprisingly that does not take the edge off the little [...]
“Shut the Chuck up!”
Well its back-to-school – for me. It has been a long three months without my students and frankly I have missed the interaction. A large cohort of our students graduated in May and I was sad to see them go. By virtue of the classes I teach, I typically see all the undergraduate students in [...]
Beware the taste-testing booth and begging children…
I am susceptible to influence - particularly food influence…which is why I hate being at the store on taste-testing day. You cannot covet that which you know nothing of. That is helpful to the easily influenced - what you don’t know can’t fatten you. I think market research must show that these taste-testing booths greatly [...]
Walking the talk…
This past week ELCA did something that I think was powerful and inspiring and I have to say it made me want to become a Lutheran - it took a position of inclusivity. ELCA voted to allow non-celibate gays and lesbians to serve as leaders in the church. I started watching this last week when [...]
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