I was bouncing around the internet this evening and I came across a blog post discussing the problems with their child’s school. It reminded me of the trouble we had a couple years ago with Beth. (It’s two years later Beth still talks about that teacher every now and again.)
The purpose of this entry is to share with you (yet again) how proud I am of my daughter, and how grateful I am…
Is Ralph Nader running again?:
Four years after he announced a presidential run on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Ralph Nader is poised to do it again.
He’s scheduled to appear on the program Sunday, and longtime associates say they think the consumer advocate will announce his candidacy. Having abandoned the Green Party after being its nominee in 2000, he’s more likely to…
washingtonpost.com:
Employers would get more authority to check on the reasons workers give for excused absences, under proposed changes to the U.S. family and medical leave regulations, a rule-tightening sure to trigger a political firestorm…
One major change would allow employers to contact health-care providers who authorize the leave, access they don’t have now…
Some…
Newsvine:
Florida’s much-maligned child welfare workers will soon begin carrying handheld devices, like the ones delivery companies use to track packages, that show whether they really are checking in on the children under their supervision…
Child welfare workers currently record home visits on paper forms, then type the information into a state database. That can take up to 60 days…
I read a piece about Cuba this afternoon which was notable because… I was reading the news! My memories from the last week have taken up residence in a thick fog, so I can’t tell you why I was news deprived. I can tell you that I’m more than a little worried that this fog seems to follow an increase in dosage of a drug I’m taking to prevent headaches. I may have to do…
I don’t like the word diet. It has such a temporary connotation, as if we have no intention of making a long term commitment to healthy eating. And worse? Diets often have little to do with good health, and everything to do with vanity. Who cares how healthy it is, as long as we get skinny? Remember the cabbage soup diet, or the claims that you could lose ten to fifteen pounds in a…
My wife, my friends, my coworkers… just about everyone who knows me thinks its strange that I don’t like sunny days. Frankly, I think everyone else is a little strange for not yearning for a little more variety. At the same time, I must consider the odds. Either everyone I know is strange, or it’s me.
It don’t look too good friends.
I must admit that today was a nice day…
Yeah, I’m sure you want to read a letter I’m sending to a stranger in Vermont. Although, if you’ve been reading for a while and you’re still coming back, maybe you won’t mind so much.
I wonder if I’m overdoing the “complete stranger bit?”
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2/17/2008
Dear (concealed),
If I were you I’d be wondering who I am. I’m pretty sure you have…
First of all, I want to get one thing straight. I don’t mean this as a woe is me entry. Besides a few chronic worries, life has been good.
All right, now that I’ve got the disclaimer out of the way… the last 24 hours have been interesting, but for reasons that no one but me is fully aware. You could read that sentence and conclude (or at least suspect) that I’ve taken my…