Times of tumult…

I don’t know why, but for a couple of months now my favorite word to say is “tumult“.
My 94 year old grandmother died just after midnight April 15th.  Which lead me to say that she was just living out the cliche of “nothing is certain except death and taxes…”  While she had been ill, I [...]

Words…

S, as I have mentioned is a very smart girl.  But I was just sitting here thinking about some of the cute things she does that keep me from being totally intimidated by her intelligence.
When we go down into southern West Virginia, near where my brother DK lives, there are lots of road signs that [...]

What’s next…

S had her interview for the Phd programyesterday.  I tend to be a little snotty about academics so it is difficult for me not to refer to a Phd program in Eductionas a Phd pogrom.  Then again, maybe I just like the play on words.  Or it could be that I have grown dyspeptic over [...]

Books that make you dumb…

I found this tid-bit over at Joanne Jacob’seducation blog.  Someone went through Facebook and took note of the lists of the most popular books broken down by what college the user represented.  They then downloaded the SAT/ACT scores for the colleges and graphed the results into a Books That Make You Dumb chart.  Good fun!
Smart books: Lolita [...]

When lacking better ideas, just raise taxes…

Sin taxes, as defined by Investopedia, are typically added to liquor, cigarettes and other non-luxury items. State governments favor sin taxes because they generate an enormous amount of revenue and are usually easily accepted by the general public because they are indirect taxes that only affect those who use the products. When individual states run deficits, the sin tax is [...]

Garbage…

The garage door is frozen shut.  I suppose there are some things we could do to pry it open, but it is cold, really cold. 
We are required by our city to keep our garbage cans inside the garage until 7:00 pm the night before garbage collection.  Since we cannot get the door open, we cannot [...]

Words can kill…

I sometimes get obsessed with saying words over and over and over…  Sometimes I’ll hear a name and it’s so fun to say that I will say it over and over and over…  Sometimes I will take the fun to say name and word associate it to another fun to say name and then repeat [...]

Wind and words…

Last week we experienced 40-50 mph winds.  The day after the worst winds I noticed that the “W” had been blown off of the large green Whole Foods lighted sign.  So, it was just “hole foods“.