Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
I swear, all this bleeding heart stuff about kids in the military and fanboy adoration of Steinbeck … the GOP’s gonna come and revoke my Republican voter registration card pretty soon.
I’m feelin’ lucky. So far. You may recall how, last week, my three youngest young’uns were sick. Early Sunday morning the bug got my wife, then my oldest son a few hours later. Wifey was really bad off for a while. She doesn’t like me talking about her here, so I won’t go into details,…
It’s been quite the week. My three youngest kids were home sick Monday and Tuesday, went to school Wednesday, then the youngest two started vomiting again Wednesday evening and one of them ended up staying home yesterday, causing me to use a sick day. They all seem fine now … but I think I’m coming…
It’s been quite the week. My three youngest kids were home sick Monday and Tuesday, went to school Wednesday, then the youngest two started vomiting again Wednesday evening and one of them ended up staying home yesterday, causing me to use a sick day. They all seem fine now … but I think I’m coming…
So, you think you want to become a werewolf. Have you really thought this through? Really? Here are 10 things you might want to consider.
When I switched over to WordPress last summer, my intention was to have fresh content on my main Web presence much more often than I was doing before, when updates meant creating a new HTML page. I haven’t been so good at that, although I do update my LiveJournal pretty often. So, I’m going to…
Today I got approval on my purchase order to buy 30 copies of William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist for use in my AP Literature and Composition class. I wondered if there’d be a problem getting it approved, but there were no questions. I really didn’t expect to be able to get 30 copies, but our librarian got…
That Carrie Jones gal done went and tagged me in a meme. I’m not going to paste in the book covers like she did. I’m lazy. Which five book characters are you most like (including, if you want, one of your own)?1. Samwise from The Lord of the Rings. An adventure would be fun, but I’d…
We been doin’ The Grapes of Wrath in my AP classes. Man, I shore do love this book. What’s more, the kids, they seem to like it purty well, too. It’s got ever’thing a teacher can hope for. Symbolism, allusion, multiple themes, dialect, political messages, controversy, ever’thing. And I get to let my proper grammar…