Yesterday, the world witnessed yet another senseless act of violence in the mass shooting carried out at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. I first began to see the news on the event while I was working at the public middle school where I am employed, and when I came home later yesterday evening, I found myself unable to watch the details unfold on the nightly news. It wasnt only that I didnt want my own young son to hear the words children dead or teachers killed spoken repeatedly o...
© Les Taylor Photo (Thanks, Leslie!) What exactly would be the seasonal opposite of Spring has Sprung? Im not sure what cute name it would be given, but I saw a lovely example of it today. See, here in the South we have relatively mild falls and winters, and many of our trees never do the color change routine that is so common to places farther north. To see a tree in full fall bloom is somewhat of a rarity here. It rained—well, drizzled—for most of the day today. There was very little blue sky, and...
For the most part, I dont really give much thought to the time I spent in church as a child. I cant honestly say that I have more than a handful of good memories from my church-going days, and Im certain that the many bad memories outweigh the few good ones. (Although, I fully admit that much of this may be due to the fact that I was an all-around miserable child most of the time back then.) While the overall church experience didnt leave me with any warm fuzzy feelings, I can say that I did learn som...
People who know me know that I have long been a fan of bumper stickers. I last blogged about my bumper stickers back in September of 2010 in this post. Back then, I was still driving my Nissan Sentra. Sadly, courtesy of a lady (not myself) who decided to run a red light, that poor little Sentra ended up like this just 6 weeks later: These days, Im driving an 02 Chrysler Voyager, and it has a whole new collection of its own stickers that get a great deal of attention. When stickers get old, they are ...
**Quick note from Sarah, the blog owner** I invited my dear friend to post this entry today because his story needs to be heard, as far too many stories of our wounded soldiers arent. However, this post will contain a very frank recalling of wartime situations and, as such, may be disturbing to sensitive readers or inappropriate for children. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello, Red! readers. My name is Jack Jarrell. Some of you have seen me mentioned in other of Sa...
While I realize that the Twilight series is wildly popular, I can say that it is hands-down the most ridiculous book I have ever attempted to read. It is so ridiculous that I refuse to force myself to see the movies. However, in light of the newest (final?) movie's release and current popularity, here's a funny things that makes me giggle.
It's been slightly less than two weeks since the election that saw the incumbent Obama/Biden Presidential ticket win reelection over the challenging Romney/Ryanticket, and already the vast differences between Romney's and Ryan's views on the causes of their loss are rearing their heads. Much to my surprise, I find that Ryan, although I still don't agree with his politics, is not the scary Palin-like monster I was afraid he would be. Paul Ryan has openly said that Obama's campaign "did a better job of ge...
While my last post has taken off and gotten a lot of attention—both good and bad—I have realized that I'm due for a post with a bit of humor. Too many people get unnecessarily and overly emotional about political matters, taking every differing opinion as a personal attack. So, when I saw this posted on Facebook earlier, I decided it was exactly the spot of levity I needed tonight. I have retrieved this video from the comedy section of the Huffington Post website [link here, opens in new window] wher...
Earlier this evening, my friend, Tashina, posted a link on Facebook that took me to a petition being started on the official White House website, where people were signing a request to allow the state of Louisiana to peacefully secede from the United States and form their own country. As I viewed the one-level-up home page of the petitions area of the site [click here, link opens in new window], I saw that there are identical petitions begun for many other states as well, including Florida! Let me assu...
Earlier this evening I read a wonderfully unapologetic rant, and I wanted to share it here. I can say that it mirrors many of my own feelings these days, which is why I wanted to share it. It was written by someone as fed up as I am with being negatively stereotyped. [Some of the language contained within is not the sort of stuff I usually post on this blog. I have semi-censored some of the text, but you'll still be able to tell what the original words were.] =========================================...
