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Image by Scott Able­man via Flickr On the first day of classes for this past semes­ter, I found out that I wasn’t sup­posed to have taken another class with my Stat class. Why? Because Stat’s was going to kick my rear!! At first I was hacked that my advi­sor didn’t “advise” me prop­erly. Then I […]

Three years ago she was diag­nosed with stom­ach can­cer. I thought the Vet was a nutcase…I just fig­ured it was the rocks she was eat­ing at the neigh­bors. But he was right. She was sup­posed to die in ’08 but she lived 3 years longer.  We had to adjust her food…help her up and down […]

Recently we were given incred­i­ble seats to a St. Louis Car­di­nal game. I’m not much of a base­ball fan, but when you’re in the 10th row, right behind home plate, even I know it’s worth going to. It was incred­i­bly hot, but it was so much fun with the boys. I was espe­cially excited to see […]

This past week­end was our local Step Up for Down Syn­drome event. It was out­stand­ing! The vol­un­teers went above and beyond to make it spe­cial.  But I have to say the fans at the Spring­field Cardinal’s game were incred­i­ble! It was a double-header game so between the games the Emcee announced us as we walked […]

We’re learn­ing a lit­tle Hebrew in my Old Tes­ta­ment class. It helps to under­stand what the hey-hoo was REALLY going on dur­ing the Abraham-Moses era. Our Hebrew word of the day today is ‘Beth’; which means ‘house of’. For exam­ple — Beth­la­ham — House of Bread Bethel — House of God Now stay with me…this is […]

Oh how I love a good recipe car­ni­val! AndI have a ton of favorite sum­mer recipes, but these are mak­ing me drool right this very minute! If you dig (or digg) any of these, be sure to use my “Print Friendly” but­ton at the bot­tom of the post so you get to print exactly what […]