Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Holiday Hysteria
What is it about the holidays that makes us crazy? Why can't we just relax and enjoy being with family and friends that we haven't seen in months? Who cares if the bathrooms are spotless...OK, I care. Ah, there's the problem. I need to just chill out, but it's so hard when people are coming to my house for Thanksgiving. These people know me. They know I am not Suzy Homemaker. That gene thoroughly infused my older sister Dorothy and apparently skipped right over me. I didn't get any curls, either, but I'm not complaining. I'm glad I'm getting this craziness out of my system on the eve of Thanksgiving. I'll be OK by tomorrow when everyone arrives and we sit down to smoked turkey, ham, pecan pie, sweet potatoes with marshmallows and all those other wonderful Thanksgiving treats. My advice is to forget about cleaning...as long as the food is good and the TV can pick up the football game, everything will be fine! Happy Thanksgiving! And on Friday night, the Carthage Bulldogs travel to Corsicana to play Caldwell. Go Dawgs!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
What's in a name?
The English professor I love knows far more about Shakespeare than I, but when I had to come up with a name for my new blog, I remembered these lines from Macbeth:
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
I teach communication at Panola College in Carthage, Texas. I'm lucky to have great students, and we really learn from each other. It's so much fun to watch these young men and women grow in knowledge and maturity over the months they are in my class. I share their joys and sorrows and try to nudge them along that long and winding road that they must travel to grow up.
We have spent the last four months working toward developing a new way to communicate with a redesigned online newspaper, The Pony Express Online. Our goal is to jump right into this new world of converging media without losing the character and history of a student newspaper that was established in 1948 when Panola College was founded.
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
I teach communication at Panola College in Carthage, Texas. I'm lucky to have great students, and we really learn from each other. It's so much fun to watch these young men and women grow in knowledge and maturity over the months they are in my class. I share their joys and sorrows and try to nudge them along that long and winding road that they must travel to grow up.
We have spent the last four months working toward developing a new way to communicate with a redesigned online newspaper, The Pony Express Online. Our goal is to jump right into this new world of converging media without losing the character and history of a student newspaper that was established in 1948 when Panola College was founded.
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