Halloween Safety Tips From Dave Barry

The Classic Dave Barry Calendar entry for Wednesday 31, 2007:
On The National Safety Council’s website, you parents will find thirty tips for parents to ensure that your children have a safe Halloween. For you convenience, Uncle Dave has boiled these tips down to five:

Never allow your children outside on Halloween night.
Or in the daytime, either.
Your [...]

Caution


Modesto News: Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed

Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again

If I Had Time

… and if I knew how, I would create a web based Contact Management program to keep track of my students’ info and birthdays and schools, and give all my leaders access.

Tweeting

I’m still trying to figure out how we can really use Twitter.
I think for any of you who don’t want to blog because you don’t think you have enough to say, Twitter is good. You can only write up to 140 characters (not words, characters). Plus, you can use your cell phone or IM, so [...]

Halloween™

It’s almost Halloween (or “Hallowe’en” if you are strange). I think I have some good reasons for NOT being excited. One, I have a friend who has a painful past and horrible memories associated with the day. Two, I am too old to ask people for candy. Three, if someone eggs our house, my dad [...]

Save Our Hair!

I’m walking out of the grocery store this afternoon when a guy asks me if I’d like to donate toward “battered women, orphans, and men with receding hair lines.” I don’t know, it was something like that.
Anyway, I asked him if he had any paperwork I could look at to learn about what they do [...]

Colbert on Handball

“Wake Up Call: Sorry there, handball, but you’re just tennis for poor people.”
Stephen Colbert, I Am America (And So Can You!)