My idea for my CD cover  
Yes! I write music and have created my first ever idea for the CD cover for my collection of original songs.

SInce I just uploaded it to MD (it's Thursday afternnon as we speak), it should...More...

4 comments | 1 kudo | 109 views | posted Oct 30, 2008 at 6:46 PM

To be a Substitute School Teacher...........again  
Yes, I am a substitute teacher. Again. I subbed for a year after I got my teaching credential in 1984 to see where I wanted to teach full time. It was fourth grade, a grade I taught for teh next 10...More...

5 comments | 1 kudo | 123 views | posted Oct 26, 2008 at 10:15 PM

Courage, part 2  
Another one......

coping with adversity

Suppose you were a salesman having a rough month. It looks like you are going to miss your sales target and get chewed out by your boss. You...More...

0 comments | 0 kudos | 121 views | posted May 5, 2008 at 12:05 PM

Courage  
I ran across the article recently...

It's important to understand that courage is not the absence of fear but rather how one reacts to it. If you are faced with a challenge that causes the f...More...

2 comments | 1 kudo | 166 views | posted May 5, 2008 at 12:01 PM

Chat World vs. Real World  
In the "real world" outside of chat, we watch out for our friends. In good times, we laugh at our jokes, share news, get active in each other's lives, and get to know each other. When we've made mis...More...

6 comments | 1 kudo | 237 views | posted Apr 6, 2008 at 1:19 PM

Happy Valentine's Day  
Happy Valentine's Day to all my friends.....!

Hope you get plenty of those candy hearts....

Gray

0 comments | 0 kudos | 93 views | posted Feb 14, 2008 at 10:13 AM

It takes a Christmas get together to remember  
When I got the invitation by email, I knew I had to go. My friends, whom I had not seen in a few years, were going to be there.

It was an after Christmas celebration with our high school's choir d...More...

3 comments | 0 kudos | 155 views | posted Dec 30, 2007 at 10:25 AM

It was a blog well heard  
I was inspired by a blog I read over the weekend here at MD. The title of the blog caught my eye first and drew me in to read it and, as it turned out, to read it again.

The writer is known well i...More...

6 comments | 3 kudos | 216 views | posted Nov 13, 2007 at 2:47 AM

Here's to you, Dad  
My Dad. He never talked about "the war" with us. He preferred to talk to my grandfather about it, perhaps because my grandfather could relate to it more.

Dad also had a multitude of friends at hi...More...

9 comments | 1 kudo | 166 views | posted Nov 11, 2007 at 9:04 AM

What were they thinking?  
Funny and weird headlines....

Where were the editors??
Grandmother of eight makes hole in one
Deaf mute gets new hearing in killing
Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers
House passes...More...

3 comments | 0 kudos | 157 views | posted Apr 12, 2007 at 2:05 AM