-
Recent Posts
- Lost in the Box Store — Where Are the Socks?
- I Am (amazon) Woman — Hear Me Roar!
- The Formidably Frightening Car Alarm Fiasco
- Reality TV Shows: Your Real Life Is So Much Better
- Something Different: a Community of Independent Thinkers
- The Weakness of PowerPoint
- Facebook: Sometimes I Like It, Sometimes I Don’t
- The Artificial God
- What Does It Take to Be an Expert?
- The Aggressive Christian Woman
Middle Aged Plague Facebook
Steve Henderson Fine Art Facebook
Article Search
Monthly Archives: February 2011
The Amazing Advantage to Being Incredibly Nearsighted
But we were talking about genetics, and while Professorial One’s genius with microbes and viruses and tropical diseases was all used up on the older siblings, he had plenty of his wretched eyesight to dump in my DNA, with the result that I began wearing eyeglasses in the third grade, when I thought to myself, “If only the teacher would write in BRIGHT RED chalk and MUCH BIGGER, I would be able to read it.” Continue reading
Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, Business, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Encouragement, Family, Growth, Humor, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, News, Personal, Politics, Random, Relationships, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged artist, Chinese, eyesight, farsighted, genetics, glasses, grammar, middle age, myopia, nearsighted, Nobel Prize, Norwegian, Polish, scientist, toddler
3 Comments
Seriously — Is My Health Insurance Company Really My Family?
One of the most memorable offerings that I received this Valentine’s Day was a gigantic red and white card, teeming with colossal, poofy, happy hearts and a warm, loving message signed, “Your Extended Family.” My health care plan. Also known … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Art, Beauty, blogging, Business, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Economy, Encouragement, Family, Growth, Humor, Job, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, News, Personal, Politics, Random, Relationships, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged African, Angela, Clinton, Dwight, family, father, God, health, health care, Hillary, insurance, madonna, Michael Scott, middle aged, mother, nuclear family, office, parent, society, Stanley, toddler, Valentine, village, Webster
Leave a comment
The Punctuation Princess Says: Easy on the Exclamation Points! Please!
So, take that little box of exclamation points and put it in the back of the cupboard, removing it only on special, special occasions — which, incidentally, pretty much never occur on resumes, cover letters to prospective employees, business reports, or essays for a 101 English paper. Continue reading
Posted in Art, Beauty, blogging, Business, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Economy, Encouragement, Growth, Humor, Job, Life, Lifestyle, News, Personal, Politics, Random, Relationships, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged Clarence Page, columnist, dictionary, editor, exclamation, John Stossel, letters, middle aged, newspaper, point, princess, punctuation, Steve Henderson, thesaurus, walla walla, writing
Leave a comment
Michelle Obama and Tom Selleck: They Agree about Something
After he swallowed what he was chewing, the Son and Heir recalled a social groupie thing that involved a half-dozen captive boys sitting around a table, being guided in how to behave by male instructors. Much was said about how to cut one’s meat (not with the hands), where to blow one’s nose (not at the table), and what to do with one’s free hand (not on the girl’s thigh). Continue reading
Posted in Beauty, blogging, Business, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Economy, Encouragement, Family, Food, Growth, Humor, Job, Life, Lifestyle, Motherhood, News, Personal, Politics, Random, Relationships, Uncategorized, Work
Tagged Blue Bloods, Chinese takeout, dinner, eating, Emily Post, etiquette, family, manners, middle age, middle aged, Obama, pizza, table, Tom Selleck, white house
4 Comments




