From The I Hate to Cook Book , by Peg Bracken: Afterthought Cookies Should you ever need cookies for children and do not feel up to making a...

𝄞 Happy birthday, Lisa . . . 𝄫 Obviously, I'm quoting from the Simpson's, not singing happy birthday to myself. Gosh. And frankl...

Signs that it may be a long, long year, and then another long year after that: I have started dreaming about administrators, and not the one...

ON THE ONE HAND, when I came home from my first full day of work in a very long while, a day which which started at 6:30 a.m., and not in a ...

Years ago, on Ally McBeal , Ally's therapist (played by Tracey Ullman) told Ally she needed a theme song. (I have searched in vain for ...

So, yesterday I finally dug myself into the very bowels of Blackboard to sort out my online work. An unattractive metaphor and yet so approp...

My Sabbatical Report. Prologue. Sabbaticals are very important. Reasons, examples, &c. Account of activities. Summer 08 (technicall...

I have just started three different blog posts, and all of them were whiny--not that I have anything against whining, and in fact, I conside...

We are having a wonderful time in Seattle, to wit: we've spent some time at a park down by Pike Place Market where we had a fine time wa...

Not that I've ever fully acknowledged this to myself, but I may be in search of a life where I am never not online. I realize how sick ...

Q: what will I wear to the important yet exceedingly early meeting I must attend tomorrow? Q: why potato chips? Q: what to do first, on the ...

Oh, wow, is what my grandson says when he's impressed with something, like the dinosaurs in Ice Age part One Million , or an extra larg...

It's a pretty much straightforward equation, which, if I had even a passing acquaintance with equations, I would demonstrate here, with ...

In today's Salt Lake Tribune : Monsoon? Please explain: Exhibit B (my backyard): As I believe the evidence shows, the people, what we ...

It is too hot to think. Instead of thinking, I did this: took Bruiser for a spritely walk. bought Sprite for singing son, because he had a ...

Tonight, we went up Millcreek cabin to build a fire, roast hot dogs and make s'mores and check things out: It was my daughter's idea...

The people, it is hot. And, in that environment, I must begin to think about work, as in my job. As in: syllabi online content reading the ...

I have now edited and revised so much that I can actually feel it in my behind. I'm hoping that it has the same basic effect as multiple...

With the historian gone, I am fully into the stay-up-way-too-late mode that is apparently what I revert to when I'm on my own. Go ahead...