I have this cat that annoys me to no end. My parents named him Pest in an attempt to capture the fullness of his personality and he certainly lives up to his name. If you are a living person, Pest likes to be around you all the time. Unlike many cats who can be described [...]
Not so creative right now. . .
Caring People Do Exist!!
The Importance of Wrinkles
I remember as a child being fascinated with the wrinkles on my mother and grandmother’s faces. Being a perceptive little one, I noticed that their faces had a different, smoother and softer texture than mine, which was largely due to the influence of wrinkles. I loved touching their faces because of the way their skin [...]
Big Brother’s Watching. . . Is there a double standard on who he can watch?
In the Friday December 16th edition of the New York Times, it was revealed to the American masses that President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to spy on the international calls of individuals who have been positively linked to Al Qaeda. The Times called this mission a “major shift in American intelligence-gathering practices” and [...]
Femininity
Standing out
Life: Through the words of the wise
To invoke an analogy, consider a movie: it consists of thousands upon thousands of individual pictures, and each of them makes sense and carries a meaning, yet the meaning of the whole film canot be seen before its last sequence is shown. -Viktor E. Frankl I hear them saying you’ll never change things/ And no [...]
Gotta be more than this provential life.
Reflection Paper for Colloquium
Reflections on Getting Lost As I was reading the speech by the professor from Millsaps I couldn’t help but smile and think about the times when I was the student in the audience. When I graduated from high school the administration boasted of how great our class was: how much we had done, how smart [...]





