A friend sent me the following yesterday via email, and I thought I’d share it with you all: Just a Mom? A woman, renewing her driver’s license at the County Clerk’s office, was asked by the woman recorder to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself. “What I mean is, ” explained the recorder, “do...

I don’t know about the rest of you, but it seems to me that those Economic Stimulus checks Georgie is passing out need to be saved for use at the gas pumps here directly if we want to go anywhere by any other means than on foot. Granted, here in Tulsa, we have the lower end of the scale of gas prices, but we always have (at least as long as I’ve lived...

This evening, we had the first incidence of tornado sirens going off in the city. A BIG line of storms stretching from the Kansas/Oklahoma state line to the Oklahoma/Texas state line trooped through here and are now headed for Jopin, Missouri. We’re not done with the rain, but WE STILL HAVE POWER! As you might remember from December, Suzanne Without Power =...

The first time I sub in a new class, I don’t care what subject, I tell them the following: “Here’s the real deal, folks. Getting a high school diploma today does not show the world you have received a basic education. It simply means you’ve proven you can put up with the BS of an outdated system for 4 years and get that required piece of...

That’s what this day has been like, so far. We’re in the last month of school, and the kids are interested in anything and everything but school. So substituting for an English teacher who’s in the middle of reading “To Kill a Mockingbird” was not fun. The not fun part was watching the kids blow this classic off. Of course, it...

It was Mother’s Day a week early at my house this weekend. Oldest Son (who’s working for a landscaper) came bearing gifts: 4 pots of baby Japanese Maple trees (about 6 different varieties) and 2 pots of Sedum. He was full of instructions on their care and maintenance, which is good, because left to my own devices, I’d probably kill them. Actually,...

Tuesday evening brought a surprise visit from PDD’s big sister, which completely made PDD’s day. Pictured here is her big sister’s daughter (PDD’s niece) who is 3, PDD’s big sister who is 22 and the famous (or infamous) PDD, herself. (You can click the picture to see a larger view.) Big Sis caused quite the ruckus by getting pregnant...