Absence makes the heart beat faster

Attendance and active participation in class are crucial to a student’s academic achievement and to the opportunity to realize his or her full potential, from kindergarten through high school. Your child, The Reigning Queen of Pink, was marked absent all day today.

Between Ordinary and Mordinary, is Extraordinary

Our waking walking life, it sometimes seems, has but two paths: the ordinary, and the more ordinary. And, while betimes betwixt the morning’s light and noonday sun the mordinary seems the only choice, at sunrise, and again as sunset cedes its hours to the moon, our lives can be… Extraordinary!

Talk to the chocolate

Anyone have a recipe for egg-free, dairy-free, soy-free, corn-free, carob brownies?

A Big Ugly Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is time for a recitation of all the shit for which I am thankful – starting with inclusive altruism.

Strong Coffee = Strong Passwords?

What would you choose as a password phrase that you will remember, and cheerfully type into some widget several times a day? How about the epitaph that you’ve already had engraved on the headstone you’ve already had commissioned for the cemetery plot you bought yourself last year? I guess that’s probably not something you’re going to just up and forget next week, is it?