by Michelle Lasley | Sep 21, 2011 | Family, One a Day, Post a Day 2011
It’s a book, by Po Brosnon. I read it a few years ago. And, suddenly, today, I found myself thinking of it. I’ve been reading self help books lately, as if they are mdern philosophy. All point to thinking about what one should do with their life. Not what...
by Michelle Lasley | Sep 20, 2011 | Family, One a Day, Parenting, Post a Day 2011
He walked all the way up. It was big. It was better than watching the merry-go-round, which I deplore. Levi climbed all the way up the slide, several times. When I watched him run around the merry-go-round, spinning it faster and faster, with older kids on … all...
by Michelle Lasley | Sep 19, 2011 | Family, One a Day, Post a Day 2011
It’s been two and a half years of varied schedules, most of which involved a 4am wake up. Now, it’s over. And, for the next 6 months, my wake up time will be later and my husband will be arriving home much later. That’s right, the tools have found...
by Michelle Lasley | Sep 19, 2011 | The Balancing Act
Matty, a “MySpace” blogger, posted a rampage on hypocrisy of corporations. I responded thus:It’s great to hear people really irritated with the ironic hypocrisy that goes with, well just about anything, especially when you’re talking about...
by Michelle Lasley | Sep 19, 2011 | The Balancing Act
This was a paper written for Professor Curtis Stokes at Michigan State University for my MC 370 class (taken for the 2nd time). Note: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the First Discourse: on whether the restoration of the Sciences and Arts has contributed to the purification...
by Michelle Lasley | Sep 18, 2011 | The Balancing Act
I never imagined myself as a Suzy Homemaker, growing up with the idea that housework, keeping house, was a lessor task. I always hated doing chores. My mother abhorred cooking, complete with the false notion that she can’t cook. I grew up believing I could be...