Another Tragedy @ Notre Dame ~ student suicide ~ University Cover-up “A 19-year-old college freshman at St. Mary’s College was found barely breathing in her dorm room in an apparent suicide.” That is what the headline read, but it’s the story lines behind that headline is considered more disturbing. The victim; The student found on September 10, 2010 was Elizabeth “Lizzy” Seeberg. She was a special person who gave more to [...]
When we were all in school, we always sang the old song “99 bottles of beer on the wall.” We never finished it, but on one bus trip the miracle happened. As we approached the school, we were down to 2 bottles, then one… We were directly in front of the school and everyone stayed on the bus for the last chorus. Everyone joined in, including the bus driver. Finally, “and there were no bottles of beer on the wall” Everyone [...]
Persevere, such a powerful word that has brought me to this point in my life. No, I am not a well known author, but I will pursue my dream in having my children’s books receive the recognition that they deserve. I am an author of three children’s books BoBo the Race Car, BoBo Races on The Tricky Triangle and my current release Bess the Book Bus. My books were published by Mirror Publishing, a self-publishing company. There are many pros [...]
Thanksgiving 2010 - I was reflecting on this last year and feeling all the changes both good and bad. I was thinking how at this time last year my world had just begun to take a new turn and my heart was beginning an inevitable break. I remember that wild swing particularly between October and December between frantic fever dreamed hope and moments of true despair. And I remember the point where I faced the reckoning of where I had [...]
Las Meninas is one of my favorite paintings. It was painted in 1656 by Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez – you gotta love Spanish names. It’s a large family portrait (125.2 in × 108.7 in) and it hangs by itself at the end of a short room in the Prado Museum in Madrid. Go to this link and zoom in to check it out and better understand what I’m about to say about it. One of the numerous odd features of Las Meninas, is that Velázquez [...]
She continues to search for
lost treasures, but – sand
falls through her fingers
Every year hundreds of thousands of people are sickened by food poisoning and in the U.S., 5000 people die. Improper food handling is the number one cause of these illnesses and fatalities. And the holiday season is prime time for food poisoning. Every year methods circulate about unconventional ways to cook a turkey. These are the unsafe methods that you should never use. Of course, nobody can stop you, and if you’ve used these methods [...]
Are we responsible for everything in our lives? Does this lead to success? The answer is yes. People that live a life of high integrity that are at cause in their lives, take full responsibility for everything…. There was recently a court case in which employees of a fast food restaurant were suing the company because of gaining weight eating the food from the restaurant. I could hardly believe what I was hearing! To think anyone with [...]
This is an excerpt from the end of the first chapter of the first book in The Greater Than Riches series. …Earlier that day, Detective Frank Bianchi had arrived at the waterfront as dawn was painting the sky pink over the eastern harbor. He stood on the dock holding a tray of coffee cups that attracted a small crowd of ferrymen. They gave him a picture of how the man that Ella Laraway would soon identify as Jamie Kenyon, had killed [...]
The following article demonstrates yet again what can and does happen when ‘dumbing down’ becomes acceptable within our education system here in the UK, and what our current Conservative led coalition government proposes to do about it. It clearly highlights the appalling standard of the English language in this country at present, and this time the focus is on written English. “Teenagers will lose up to five per cent of marks in [...]
