The (Other) End of the Internet

Welcome back!Recently someone commented that my blog posts employ proper grammar. This is due largely to the fact that while I was learning to speak my mother was very careful to correct improper grammar and then explain why, for example, it was okay to use “who” in one sentence but you must use “whom” on […]

I heard this from my eighth-grade daughter yesterday and today and I’m still not quite able to believe it.
As a little background information, once a year the schools in Arkansas give their students the Benchmark tests. This is a government-mandated test that is part of the wonder that is “No Child Left Behind”. In […]

I have run into a problem recently. Since I got my laptop, I tend to spend most of my computer time in the front room using the laptop where I can see and hear what’s going on in the world, instead of hidden in the back of the house using the desktop machine.
The problem is […]

Does that title sound familiar? Ever seen that message before? We see it quite frequently, due to the fact that we live 90 miles from the nearest television station.
Last Christmas we all went in together and bought Mom a new television. We didn’t have the resources to go all-out and get an HDTV, but we […]

My mother-in-law has a strange cat. This animal occasionally decides she must be in some really strange spot. Her favorite trick is to wait until Mom has her file cabinet drawer open and then climb into it.When she does that, poor Mom has to wrestle with her to get her out.

 
This is a stunt she […]