Monthly Archives: May 2009
Free Hugs…Share Them
My brother-in-law, Sean Dahl, posted the following YouTube video on his Facebook page. Please watch and join the crusade to share love and friendship with those around you.
A raccoon in my kitchen
My cute kitty, Katie, came running upstairs tonight rather freaked out. She would not stop looking around upstairs for something, and she did not want me to hold her. I could tell she wanted to pounce on something that scared her. But I held her and started combing her fur with the furminator because she needs [...]
Happy Birthday Mary Cassatt
Google introduced me to Mary Cassatt’s paintings today. She lived from May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926. She was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.
Helpful Homework Cats
Oscar the Geek helped me last night with some of my preparation of the Advanced Multimedia course I will begin teaching in 2 weeks. He is so smart and is giving me sage advice that my students will need.
I am updating my personal blog’s theme
I have spent a week updating this blog, and as usual I have designed the whole thing with Adobe Illustrator and coding with CSS. It is really shaping up. I was inspired by a color scheme on Kuler, Adobe’s free color swatch development tool. I had been working with many color schemes when I came [...]
Super Mom? Nope.
I am not a super mom and I never will become a super mom. This semester has been quite difficult for me because I finally hit a wall: I did too much and did not do as well as I wanted. But I did learn a lot about a few things.
New Star Trek is Awesome
Ray and I had a fun evening last night with all his siblings and their spouses (spice?). We went out for a yummy burger and then saw the new Star Trek movie. Wow! That movie is so well done and even has a new story line. Who would have thought a new story line for [...]

