So I HATE the new tribe format. It's a strong word, I know, but it's only a web format, so I can HATE it if I want to. Today I was lording over America's future, watching them grumble over their meaningless schoolwork (I would too) when I came across the results of a survey that I would like to share. I suppose some teacher made them do this, but their answers were pretty telling of the kind of future we can expect to have.

Across the top of the papers was the question-

What are your... read more

So I want to convey to anyone who isn't from Texas the madness that even the slightest puff of winter weather brings us. Last night it was 6 degrees in Denton with a 20 degree wind chill. A "blue northerner" had blown in and brought with it this strange weather phenomeon called "sleet" and a bright and lovely but fleeting dusting of snow. Sleet is this stuff that comes here in the winter, here where we are too far south to get decent snowman building material but too far north to avoid the... read more

Today I had my first real encounter with QUICKSAND! When I was a kid, sometimes we would dig holes in the yard, fill them with water, and then jump in and howl "QUICKSAND!" but this today was real quicksand, just like the movies. My friend gave me this book on dowsing, so I thought I would give it a try. The book said to get a y shaped stick and hold it in both hands and then walk around thinking about water. When the stick is over water, it is supposed to point to the ground as if it is ... read more

So Thanksgiving was here and gone before I knew it, my favorite holiday, and bang, here we are, on to Christmas. I really shouldn't complain, my Thanksgiving was wonderful, almost like a postcard. This postcard would show my extended family, hailing from far reaches of Arkansas, Mississippi, and different pockets of Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin. Also Brian and his mom and dad all the way from Moscow, Idaho. My family is overwhelmingly female, my brother and cousin Hayden being the only... read more