I love my punching bag and gloves. I have been known to say that boxing is my new favorite thing, but one of the students in our program, Patrick Wilson, tells me that it isn't really "boxing" unless I am hitting and being hit...everything else is just "working the bag". Well then, I guess I [...]
Tag: Humor
Learning curve…
I must say that parenting definitely has a learning curve. This is particularly true when you can manage to get just shy of 18 years in between child one and child four. By the time you roll on into child four you should be a seasoned pro...not perfect (is this whole parenting thing ever an [...]
Hunting season…do they issue a license for that?
I'll just say at the outset that some days I can't help myself - my inner mischief-maker cannot be suppressed. This is one of those days. When I saw the AP headline in The Forum online on September 13th that stated, "Several ND hunting seasons set to open later this week" - I knew I [...]
It has come to this – pink with black polka-dots and ruffles.
Well folks, it has come to this - the pink with black polka- dots and ruffles underwear. You know what that means right? Yep, need to do laundry today. Of course that is the only reason that I would be wearing the pink with black polka-dots and ruffles underwear as they are the last frontier [...]
Normal or Nuts?
I was going through an old stack of magazines and on the cover of the Reader's Digest, June 2007 edition, I saw this: Normal or Nuts? Test Yourself Hmmmm...something is wrong with this premise. I need to work it through...there is a test...the test will tell you if you are normal or nuts. But, if [...]
What a teacher makes…
I am a fan of spoken poetry. I don't mean poetry written in a book that is then read aloud. I mean poetry that is created to be spoken. Well, spoken is really an understatement - perform is a better term. I was introduced to spoken poetry through Def Poetry (a show on many moons [...]
Act your age!
The great Satchel Paige once posed the question, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?" When I was younger I didn't understand the potency of this question. In the new forty I not only understand it - I have a response - 25. If I did not know how [...]
THE NEW FORTY 