I’m back from a weekend with my family and away from all news. My feeds are in an ugly traffic jam and I’m scrolling through Instapundit to see if I missed anything really important. (MTG and I noticed some cows standing East/West and thought the world might be ending.) It’s not. Nothing has changed. We’re […]
I have discovered two blogs that are very amazing and inspiring and what I want to be when I grow up. The first is Ali’s African Adventures–which she doesn’t capitalize, but the proofreader in me must. Ali is a nurse on a hospital ship off the coast of Liberia. Just wow. And also, keep tissue […]
From a New York Times article on Michael Phelps mom, She will never forget one teacher’s comment: “This woman says to me, ‘Your son will never be able to focus on anything.’ ” Yeah, that poor kid. Who knows what he could do if he could just focus? That teacher must be wondering where she […]
Ah, to be sixteen again. First car, first kiss, first solo sailing trip around the world. Okay, just kidding. I wouldn’t want to be sixteen again for all the tea in China. But I do envy this young man’s adventure. Honestly, what sounds better: high school or sailing the high seas? (Or climbing a mountain, […]
The young man who won the spelling bee won with guerdon: a reward, recompense, or requital. He certainly earned it. It was very exciting. And hilarious. This is the winner Sameer Mishra, in an earlier and soon to infamous, moment. Little Miss kept asking why everyone was laughing. Well, uh, he mispronounced it. That’s all. […]
Don’t ask me how I got reading the Washington Post obituaries, today, but I did. From an obituary for Floyd Boring, whose life was anything but, one man commented: It can either be taken before food or even after knowing does not consult viagra samples find for info the doctor. Men who suffer from diabetes […]