Monthly Archives: November 2008

11.03.08
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New Month’s Resolution for November

It’s time to wean from the caffeine.

I hope to have my coffee down to a 50-50 split by the end of the month.

Perhaps I ought to add “take a daily nap” to my resolution?

What is a New Month’s Resolution? Every month I look at where I need to focus my attention. Perhaps I’ve been procrastinating on certain chores. Perhaps I need to spend some extra time with one or more of the kids. Perhaps I’d like to try a new habit. New Month’s Resolutions are not grandiose plans to lose ten pounds or declutter the entire house or give up smoking (of course, I don’t smoke, but if I did, this would not be the venue in which I would give it up). New Month’s resolutions are short-term commitments; they are easily attained goals; they focus on what is needed right now, instead of what is best for a lifetime.

Do you have a new month’s resolution?

11.01.08
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Middle Schools: the most oppressive places in America

A middle school in New Jersey allowed the students to dress up yesterday. One boy dressed as Jesus. He got sent home.

The school says the costume was a disruption and denies its religious nature had anything to do with it.

You know, serious academics were going on that day. The regular repertoire of witches, ghouls, vampires, ninjas, Indiana Joneses, hippies, Grim Reapers and Sweeny Todds were not in the least bit distracting from the strict regime of core subjects. And the school’s Halloween party was also not in the least bit distracting from school work. The “games” were actually spelling bees, and geography bees and history Jeopardy and pin-the-latin-root-in-the-derivative-box.

But Jesus was a disruption.

Do you think anyone dressed as the Devil?