The title is meant to be an eye catcher. Unfortunately, the subject is no joking matter. The major news networks believe that a 17 year old being pregnant is news. Actually, maybe I read it wrong. Maybe the major news networks believe that a 17 year old being pregnant and keeping the baby is news. … Continue reading Teen Pregnancy News?
Yes, as I indicated yesterday, last evening was the opening “day” for the 2008-2009 college football season. Being a college football fanatic, I am thrilled that it is back and had a hard time concentrating on the DNC last night as I flipped between three games on my television. I am sure that between the… Continue reading College Football Openers
I know that it doesn’t seem all that long ago that there were the usual season-ending complaints about the BCS (Bowl Championship Series) and a National Championship game, but to those of us who love college football, these last eight months have been very long. I am a college football fan. I grew up, as most… Continue reading College Football at Last
Kristen Roby, the resident food blogger on my local newspaper’s web site, has been blogging recently about meat cakes. These are food items that look like cakes but are actually meat. While I was unsure of the idea, they look great and probably taste good – as long as you are not the person who… Continue reading Cakes – or maybe not?
As gas drops in price slightly where I live, it does not seem that there is a corresponding drop in grocery prices. Our groceries have to get to the store somehow and when it is via truck, the cost of transportation has to be involved in that price. I subscribe – a friend who is… Continue reading Budget Shopping
Earlier this summer, my soon-to-be 18 year old son passed his licensing exam and is a licensed driver. Granted, since he did not take driver’s education anywhere, he cannot drive after 9 pm except when coming home from work or school but that is only until he turns 18 in two months’ time. So, this… Continue reading Another Rite of Passage
Kristen Roby, a blogger at Pressconnects.com, has a post about granola. It got me to thinking about what I do for granola. My mother, many years ago, gave me a Betty Crocker Cookbook. She also typed – yes, it was the day and age of typing – many pages of her favorite recipes which I still… Continue reading Granola
Back in July, I was reading the blog of one of the local newspaper’s education reporters, George Basler. This particular blog post was regarding the effect high diesel fuel costs was having on school budgets and, subsequently, the education of our children. About 12 days later, I was reading a Reuters article on Yahoo! that schools were… Continue reading Fuel Costs and Education
While I am not heading out on Saturday morning, my 14 year old son will take off with his father and his father’s girlfriend (not sure what the proper/PC word is) for Bike Tioga. Bicycling and Boy Scouts are my son’s things. Having grown up in Tioga County, I love the rolling hills and scenic… Continue reading Bike Tioga
Believe it or not – and the local weather guy thinks we will have weather to believe it in the upcoming days, summer has only six weeks left. That means many different things to many different people – back to school, cooler weather, my birthday (just had to slip that one in), the Perseid meteor… Continue reading Summer Waning
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