The Texas State School Board continues to be a potent force for the far right which dominates so many public policy decisions in American. As a huge state with a large population, they wield ultimate control over the content of public school textbooks (not just for their own students, but for students in many states) [...]
It looks as if Pioneer Woman is going to be made into a movie starring Reese Witherspoon…
as Ree Drummond.
Columbia pictures is developing the movie based on Ree’s laborious “Black Heels to Tractor Wheels’ chronicle in which she minutely combs over every dating detail that led up to her wedding and marriage to ranching tycoon, Ladd [...]
I found this photo yesterday when I was looking for images that might work for a blog re-design. The above picture was quickly placed on top of the ‘Oh Hell Yes’ pile because it just seems to perfectly describe a certain episode that occurred in my married life like nothing else can. I call it [...]
But it’s pretty damn close…
Yes, we have EIGHT wonders in Kansas!
Not six!
Not SEVEN!
EIGHT!!!!
And one of them is a SALT MINE!
Please don’t let your brain EVEN BEGIN to consider what the other SEVEN WONDERS might BE!
It’s just TOO TERRIFYING!
We took the elevator down into the mine and we took the tour.
But only after we had applied [...]
We are in Kansas City for the Big Twelve tournament.
Correction.
My husband and sons are in Kansas City for the Big Twelve tournament.
(I am here to wander aimlessly and undisturbed around the Plaza for hours and hours and hours.)
Evidently, everyone else in the Big Twelve is also here for the tournament because this morning, the [...]
