Ryan v Paige

Go, Jeffrey, go. March 4, 2004, 9:46PM Teacher of year upset by Paige’s comment Says he skipped awards in protest Associated Press BOSTON — The Massachusetts teacher of the year refused to attend an event in Washington honoring the nation’s top educators because U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation’s largest teachers union a … Read more

How popular are you?

Or more specifically, how common is your name?. People often say to me about the last name Shirley, “boy, that’s not a very common name, is it?”. I often say, “no, actually it’s fairly common, what’s your last name?” And theirs is often less common. Sure, Smith and Jones, and even Nguyen are more common, … Read more

Lasagna

I got a wild hair to cook lasagna on sunday, so I rifled around for several recipes and kinda made a hodge podge of them. It had the stereotypical problem of looseness that is frequent for lasagnas, but was tasty. After overnight in the fridge, and reheated for lunch, it was even tastier. Pureed tomato, … Read more