I’m standing at the end of a very tall diving board. Dare I jump? Well, I said I would, so I will. I’m going to write a 50K word novel for NaNoWriMo. I am confident in my writing ability. It’s the rest of the stuff I’m not sure of. First of all, I signed in…
To quote a man from my church, “I’m a grateful follower of Jesus Christ.” So am I, my friend. I don’t post political or religious blogs, but today I’m making an exception. This is for Regina. She started hanging out with Jesus this morning. For the twenty-eight years since her birth, Regina had a condition,…
July Fourth is my favorite holiday. I love everything about it. Some of my earliest memories happened on this day. Throughout my childhood and early adulthood, I’d be awakened before dawn by the sound of boat motors. The “City by the Sea,” Palacios, has water to the south and east of us. On the Fourth,…
I prefer to blog when I’m not fuming and ripe for spitting out cliches, but if I want you to feel as PO’ed as I, I’ll ask you to forgive any cliches I might write. Sooooo, schools can ban the flag, can they? Why in the name of pluperfect hell would they WANT to? Do…
“I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly, for the patterns in music are the keys to learning.” Plato Value in the Fine Arts The primary reason to fund the arts and keep them in the schools is to create a well-rounded individual, one who appreciates a sculpture, a painting,…
“Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people Happiness.” Langston Hughes Why the arts are being cut Music and the other fine arts are being cut from education. Why? Where arts still operate, it is often on shoestring budgets. Last…
Let’s face it. Foods are just plain funny. George Carlin started me thinking about funny foods in one of his sketches from “Live at Carnegie Hall.” I’ll just say one of the foods he mentioned was kumquats and let it go at that. Watch a toddler stick his fist in his first birthday cake and…
Rage hits me rarely and when I least expect it. I’m not talking about getting angry at the idiot driver who just cut you off. I’m talking about the burn that blocks my senses and leaves me shaking. When that fire hits my gut, I call on Dr. Wayne Dyer’s common sense from his book,…
F Bomb Facts (from Wikipedia) How long have we humans been dropping the F-Bomb? Depending upon which research you believe, it was acknowledged about 1475, if not sooner. We began calling it the F-Bomb about 1988. One source says it stands for “Forbidden Use of Carnal Knowledge.” Most of us consider it a curse word.…
I was standing in the checkout line at a Christian bookstore a couple of Christmases ago. A young teenage boy shopping with an older woman stopped near me to look at some key chains. His jacket opened when he reached for something on the rack. The lady in line behind me and I saw his…
Is my blog title a misnomer? You decide. We bloggers pretty much let our hair down in our blogs. That’s what I’m doing, letting my hair down. Only, which hair am I letting down? My snarky hair? Political? Christ-following? Patriotic? Quirky? A combination? My hairy passionate blog? A mish-mash blog? I guess I’ll call this…
My Hairy Blog 