Ay me! I have made a discovery and so late I have. Just recently I' ve been addicted to these Anita Blake-adventurous books, it's so different from what i've usually read and twisted, Hamilton has gotten more sexual in her most recent books, arg, I can't believe she's been out since the 90s and I've just found her stuff, crappydoodles, Besides my wonderful discoery, my friend just had a kid, fat faced, full head of hair, 8 pounds 11 ounces little ...
I truly understand why we have such a hard time finding and keeping good teachers. Holy hell is this job hard. I always loved the thought of teaching, ever since I was very, very young...and I'm talking elementary school. I remember telling my second grade teacher that I wanted to be a teacher. I knew from then, and it never changed. I taught and tutored my four younger siblings and was a volunteer tutor through junior high and high school. I often coached ...
Ok, I was going to post this as a comment to Pen's blog, but decided it was too long/slightly off topic. I am one of the people who will very rarely vote in any of the contests. I will vote occassionally when the mood takes me, but I virtually never visit the personal writing sections of the forum anyway. There are some talented poets here, but there are also a lot that are not. Same goes for the story writers. I do not read a lot of poetry - limited to Scots & ...
Contest Winning I just want to put something up here as I don't wish my friends or foes to think of me in ways that would be wrong. I do not expect to win every single contest that I enter. By no means, there are far too many good poets on the site for my pen to gain the magic touch that ensures a win every time. But I dang well expect to place, that is to garner at least one vote. If I felt that my poetry was so poor as to not even garner a vote, I would not bother to enter. If that ...
Some words of wisdom (?) (allegedly) ;-) 1. Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas." -Keppel Enderbery 2. "The loss of life will be irreplaceable." -Former US Vice President Dan Quayle 3. "I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have is that I didn't study my Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." -Former US Vice President Dan Quayle ...