Giving Kudos

Skitz M. Jones, you’re my hero

I have been on a blogging hiatus mainly because I refuse to subject you to my depressed state of mind. But I’m breaking my silence momentarily to mention that a fella who survived Iraq with me has recently published a book of poetry.
It’s listed on Amazon.com here.
Congratulations, Schweitz.  You deserve it.
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Lovely Surprise

The universities bi-monthly bulletin for Women’s Studies just came in the mail today. In the middle of multi tasking three other things, I ripped open the envelope to glance at the events that I should be expecting this month. I wasn’t paying much attention to what I was reading….. Women’s History Month….new [...]

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This won’t be funny to most people but…

My school’s newspaper prints comics that are drawn by other students. They are always only marginally funny. (And I’m trying to be nice with that description.) Honestly, I’ll most likely avoid the comics section and go straight to the world events page.
But today I nearly busted a gut when this comic was [...]

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Hometown Baghdad

My most recent favorite website: Hometown Baghdad

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The man, the myth, the legend

Vonnegut. An author we have ingrained as immortal long before his death, died yesterday. I’ve always been very fond of his work and interested in his life as well. He was a WWII prisoner of war. He went to graduate school at the University of Chicago. He had seven children, [...]

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