First, I was annoyed that the debate was set to start at 9 pm. I had not slept well the night before and was really hoping to be asleep by 10 pm. That in mind, I got all set to watch the 20th debate on the democratic side of the presidential nomination process.
I had about [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Just a thought in my mind
Posted in Art, Just my Thoughts, tagged Art, collage, magazine on 24 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes, I think that is what my blog is all about - getting some of what is in my mind out of it and “onto paper” as the case may be. Of course, this is a modern form of paper but I still love it.
I went through a phase when I would not subscribe to [...]
Water Webbing
Posted in Art, Triple Eight Challenge, tagged anitasstamps, Art, juliaandrus, papertransformed, tripleeightchallenge, webbing on 24 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
In one of the last lessons I have to do for February’s working through Paper Transformed by Julia Andrus is webbing. I knew, from the start, just what stamp I wanted to use and what I was going to do with it. I just needed the time and a water bottle.
I have several squirt bottles [...]
Kind of a Science Freak
Posted in Just my Thoughts, tagged science, totallunareclipse on 21 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yes, I admit. I liked calculus in college. I loved science classes. I took dendrology in the winter in the Adirondacks and loved it. So it is well within my character to be outside last night in the 6F temps to take pictures of the total lunar eclipse.
I took the above picture just prior to [...]
The Out of WV Mountaineer Fan
Posted in Family, Just my Thoughts, School Sports, tagged niagarauniversity, purpleeagles, wvu, mountaineers, syracuse, bigeastsports, villanova on 21 February 2008 | No Comments »
I am, in case you haven’t surmised it yet, a WVU Mountaineer through and through. I spent three years in Morgantown on the main and Evansdale campuses and love my college sports. It doesn’t matter if the Mountaineers are winning or losing - although I admit, I prefer when they win - I watch and [...]
Required Service
Posted in Just my Thoughts, tagged Israel, press&sun-bulletin, requiredservice, UnitedStates, volunteerism on 21 February 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday’s local Gannett paper had a reader response bit on whether the US should have a required service period after high school or college. Here is my response to that question.
I read the call for those comments in the Press & Sun-Bulletin. I then read the responses. I don’t know that required volunteer service (which [...]
