“Have yourself a bobbydazzler holiday!” says Percy Veerance, an eleven-year-old boy wonder, because he is always wondering. “Ruff,” says Dilly, faithful dog who agrees with Percy no matter what. “Enjoy my holidays cookies,” says Vera Veerance, Percy’s mother and V.C.S. (Vegetable Cuisine Specialist). “They’re called Yuletide Surprise, because you never know what’s in them. This [...]
If a genie in a bottle popped out and granted me one wish for Americans, here’s what I’d decree: Excellent Health for ALL. There are plenty of problems out there in the U.S. for Americans to deal with: broken employment; broken environment; broken home; broken security; broken family; broken corporations; broken trust; broken finances; broken [...]
To try to top an album that had the magnitude of scope and worldwide commercial success of American Idiot would be near impossible for any rock group. Green Day comes close with their follow-up masterpiece part deux called 21st Century Breakdown, released in May of this year. Rolling Stone magazine rated it No. 5 on [...]
The latest issue of Rolling Stone magazine (12/24/09) lists its choices for the Top 100 Albums of the Decade. I zipped trough the list, looking for Green Day’s American Idiot, which would have been my selection for the NO. 1 SPOT. With its grandiose themes (hopes and dreams of a better America), songs that tell [...]
[Note: This blog makes more sense if you've first read "Relating in the Classroom" - Part 4 (10/01/09); Part 1 (12/08/09) and Part 2 (12/11/09). You don't have anything better to do, do you?] Home alone one night during Christmas vacation of my senior year in High School, I organized a new set of proofs [...]
Do you make resolutions? How many? How long do they last? I make resolutions every year. They’re kind of like an expanded and more important To- Do List. Some of my resolutions have been the same since forever, like “Write” and “Work out more.” I put “Write” on the list just so I’ll have at [...]
Ten years ago this week I was entrenched in the middle of Millennial Madness—verklempt over how to celebrate the historic New Year’s Eve that was almost upon us—the ringing in of a New Millennium as 1999 turned into 2000. I vacillated between: Plan A) Staying home and hiding out—in case the dire predictions came true [...]
[Note: Another story to provide more background information before I actually get to the “great date” with Paul.] When I was a junior in high school I had a boyfriend named Kenny. He was a wrestler and a football player. He drove a blue Chevy Impala. The engine (?) was so loud I could hear [...]
Before I get to Great Date – Part 2, I have another story. When I mentioned the word “torso” in Great Date – Part 1, I was reminded of a not-so-great date—with a guy named Johnny Comma Torso. JCT was his “professional” name. He was in a drummer in a punk band called Bovine Something. [...]
I had a great date in High School with a guy named Paul. We were both seniors. Before I get to that night, I need to set up the history of Paul and me—some of which is in previous blogs in the archives (“Relate” category). This was a date seven years in the making and [...]
