In my early days in emergency management I compiled a report about what has come to be known as the "Great White fire". That was the fire that was started when pyrotechnics were used in a Great White performance in a crowded nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island (February 21, 2003). 99 people lost their lives [...]
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Confirmation. ;-)
I love receiving confirmation that the heart of humanity continues to beat vigorously. WKRN-TV in Nashville, Tennessee provided said confirmation via the story of Scotty Maloney's homecoming win in Unionville, Tennessee. Scotty is a high school junior with Williams Syndrome. Williams Syndrome is a neurological disorder that inhibits learning and speech, but it apparently has [...]
Sure I can… ;-)
I am on active Glamma duty tonight while Sarah and Dusty have an evening out together. It amuses me that they still ask me if I can watch Lennon on the days or nights they want to go out as a couple. I wonder how it has escaped them that it takes all I have [...]
Damn straight Keith Ternes!
I am a law abiding citizen, for the most part. I have a healthy respect for laws and law enforcement, most of the time. I may violate an occasional traffic law by exceeding the speed limit or by parking in a wrong location, but that is the extent of the daredevil criminal in me. I [...]
The trouble with tribbles…
I found myself thinking about James T. Kirk, the Captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise, quite a bit today. I recognize the fact that I can roll his name off my tongue and can still remember his dramatic poses in Star Trek episodes dates me; but, in my defense, I was a mere child and my [...]
The yardstick…
I applaud Rosea Lake today for delivering a statement about judgment. Rosea is the college freshmen (all of 18 years old) who posted a photo on Tumblr she took for an AP high school art class in her senior year that illustrates judgments people make based on the length of a woman's skirt. The photo [...]
Apparently, I am a Betty…
I was reading an article on Huffington Post and I noticed a personality quiz that asked: Which First Lady Are You? My first inclination was aggravation that it wasn't asking me which President I was. As if my choices or personality could be so easily pigeonholed...pish-posh! Despite my consternation with the inherent limitations in the [...]
THE NEW FORTY 