In preparation for making Christmas gifts I asked a friend what her favorite color is. She said she doesn't have one. Not have a favorite color? I thought everyone had a favorite? Am I just being childish? Mine is yellow. What's yours?

Tomorrow, at the college library, Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle will be reading from and discusing her memior. Unfortunately, this is the last week of classes and I have some major work to get done by Thrusday. Why in the world would they schedule this now? Just two more weeks and we'd be home free. So now I have to make the decision to go or not. It would probably my only chance to meet her - and I loved her book. She's an inspiration to me. A hero of sorts for what she ...

Here's the situation: (note: I really want to say this is a friend, but it's not it's me ) I have a family member who abused me for a long time while I was growing up. He was a juvenile (

There's been a lot of discussion around here about lying. In my view there have been some 'good' and some 'bad' discussion. Whatever. I guess this post comes out of these to some extent. This here is MY opinion. When I say 'you' I'm not talking specifically about YOU. No one has to agree with me on this and I'm not looking for an argument - just expressing myself. And nope, I'm not perfect, and yep, I'm probably a hypocrite. I've been known to lie to others and myself. Feel free to ...

I think I've shared before that I'm working towars a BA in English with the goal of teaching at a two-year college. I've only started taking classes at the local university this semester. I have three classes (9cr) so maybe I don't have enough experience yet to fully judge just how good this college is, but so far I'm highly disappointed. If there was another college within a reasonable driving area I’d check it out. The biggest think I’m learning is how NOT to teach a course! Here...

Monday Classes started at the local college. I'm taking six credits. Today was the first session of "Oral Communication for Managers." All of the other students are taking it as a requirment of a managemnt/marketing degree. I'm not going for a degree - just taking classes that appeal to me. I'm the oldest, besided the professor. I'm a good ten+ years older than all the other students. I'm OK with that - or at least I thought I was.... We had all the get-to-know-ya exercises. Two gi...

I've read that the key to increasing your keyboarding speed is to type words not letters. I'm working on it but it's hard. It seems like instead of reversing a few letters I type a completely wrong word, which I think is worse. I took a test here Link Here are my results: Test Name: Strategic Alliances with Competitors Gross Speed 68 WPM Errors 30 words Net speed 58 wpm How about you?

OK folks, back to the real world. What do you do for a living?

Personal things - not world peace (thought that would be really good right now) Me: 1. To have my grandmother back for any amount of time I could get - one year - one month - one day - even one hour. At 69 she went to have bypass surgery. I wasn't there. She didn't make it through. I don't have many regrets in my life, but not being there that morning is at the top of the list. 2. That my husband lives as long as I do. 3. That I could have had a child. How about you?...

One of the most infamous questions. What's your vote? Coke or Pepsi? Me: I love Classic Coke. Don't like Pepsi. I will drink Pepsi if it's the only thing in the house but I won't drink it at a restaurant. C2 is a good comprimise for me when it comes to diet versus regular. I hate Diet Coke. Like Pepsi One. Most times if it's diet I like some other kind of flavor. Rootbeer. Dr. Pepper. Red pop. I also can't stand Sprite or 7-up. How about you?

Does anyone believe they mean anything? Any dream interpretors out there? 1. Babies anyone? I dreamed that babies were being born out a big belly, but it wasn't attached to a person. No legs in the way. I had a list that told me what gender each one was. I checked the list as every one came out. They came out feet first and if the feet were crossed it was a girl, if they weren't crossed it was a boy. There was one on the list that just showed "uhhh...?" on the list, mea...

You know - the kind of word that sticks in your head. But ones that aren't usually used in everyday conversation? I heard my husband's favorite word on the news last night. It's not very common so It really stuck out. Malfeasance . He loves malfeasance, nonfeasance , and misfeasance . I like nonfeasance best myself. My favorites are tabula rasa and the much more common macabre . What's your favorite word?

I remember being very young and being in a strange hotel room with my family. I was on the floor in a sleeping bag at night with my teddy bear (a Paddington Bear) and took its paw and rubbed myself. I assume that it was to comfort myself in a strange place. I felt that I was being bad for doing it. Later when I reached my teens I would sped a lot of time in the bathtub touching myself. I also did it some in my bedroom too, but was always uncomfortable because I didn't have a lock on th...

I'm a melancholy person. In general I think of the world in very dark terms. There have been times that I feel like I just want to die and get it over with. I don't feel like that now, but sometimes I worry that something bad will happen and I'll be that sad again. A few years ago I took a bunch of pills and ended up getting my stomach pumped. Everyone thought it was a suicide attempt but it really wasn't. I just wanted to be numb. I didn't want to deal with my emotions. How about...