Ora 5's ants tend to congregate at the bottom of his ant farm. To see if they were alive he tipped the ant farm upside-down. They all began to scatter and he declared "Yep, they're alive."

Aspen was helping set the table for dinner and asked "Why do you always sit here?""I'm the head of the family so I sit at the head of the table," I explained."Daddy, you're not the head. Your the king."I can live with that, I thought."And mommies the queen and I'm the princess."

Enid and I went on our first organized ride of the year - a 38-mile ride beginning and ending in Wamego, KS. It took us out to Westmoreland, KS and then back to Wamego by way of Flush, KS. (Appropriately, there was a rest room available to us in Flush.)The first part of the ride was pretty nice. It was hilly which typically means that I beat Enid on the downhills (I and my bike outweigh her and her bike) and she beats me on the uphills; although this time I was beating her on those as well. ...

The Dark Side by Jane Mayerrating: 5 of 5 starsThere are not a lot of books that I read that make me want to take some form of action. Jane Mayer does an excellent job of documenting the legal overstepping done by the Bush administration. She also does an excellent of documenting that although the Bush administration says that "enhanced" interrogation techniques have yielded actionable intelligence, in reality the intelligence that we have used has come from traditional interrogation techniques; torture only results in those being ...

I am such a nerd! I found a grammar blog today (http://data.grammarbook.com/blog/) and I was so excited.

I've been reading a lot about Rwanda lately on the 15th anniversary of the genocide that occurred there. I wondered why I don't remember anything about it when it was going on. Then I saw another article that said today was the 15th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's suicide. Oh, yeah. I remember that, I thought.