March 29, 2008 – 11:49 am
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This is my “creepy” story for Shelly over at this Eclectic Life. She was very kind this past month to ask me to judge her “scared silly” writing contest. This is sort of my “entry” after the fact since I already picked a winner. You can find the list of all the [...]
Before discussing the often abstract diagnosis we call bipolar, we have to look at diagnosis and what is required. It is one of our nation’s most misunderstood mental health problems. ADVERTISEMENT
It seems like more and more news stories about rapists, murderers, garden variety psychopaths, and the like contain a tag at the end of something [...]
March 25, 2008 – 10:08 am
The blogger from In Good Taste asked me to write a guest blog for his clean and impressive Wordpress.com blog. It was no stretch with Sarah’s help. She does a lot of recipe/nutrition type stuff on her blog. Anyway, together we made a pretty good presentation (if I do say so myself). [...]
When Sarah and I went to the movies this week we were struck by how many cars were in the parking lot. “Ahhh it’s Spring Break.” I said to her. Kids are out in full force this week. Although I was the teacher of some of them, I wasn’t. I chose [...]
By Damien Riley
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Tagged easter basket, egg hunt, english language arts, family easter, good friday, kids, Language, movie, movies, parents, puddings, Sarah, snack pack, spring school, tapioca, teacher, test prep, test scores, wife, Work
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Sarah and I went to the movies on a matinée date yesterday after Spring School let out. She’d been filling out birthday invitations in her head for our son and I figured we could both use the break and get out of the house. We saw a great new movie called Vantage Point. [...]
My wife has been telling me for the longest time I need to drink less soda. She’s right, but I didn’t come to see that until I did a little research on the health effects of soda on the body. Remember this lovely ad I posted a few months ago as a joke? [...]
By Damien Riley
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Posted in Health
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Tagged brain, caffeine, carbonation, Coke, Health, health effects, nutrition, nutrition research center, sodas, sugars, tooth decay, wife
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Just wanted to drop a quick note to wish everybody a happy St. Patrick’s Day. It stands for freedom, creativity, fun, family, food, and yes … a little dark beer if you go for that sort of thing. I hope you all remember these things today and partcipate in them. I’ll be [...]
This article attempts to relate how cool the new browser on the block is: Flock. Anyone who blogs should use all the major browsers. This helps you stay abreast of what your code looks like across the board. I have Firefox, IE, and now Flock all installed on my computer and while [...]
By Damien Riley
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Posted in Reviews
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Tagged blog, Blogging A to Z, bloglines, Firefox, firefox addons, Flock, networking, Shareaholic, social networks, web browser, Work
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