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I broke the headphones for my iPhone this week. You may recall that some stink was made at the fact that the headphone port is recessed a bit. It seems I was pulling on the cord as well as the plug and didn’t realize it.
In any case, I am disappointed, seeing as the iPhone has [...]

I was at Mass at the Newman Center last night and was both surprised and pleased by something that happened.
Two students have been coming to Mass for some time. The both use wheelchairs to get around. I don’t know if their disabilities are acquired or if they have had them since birth; that is just [...]

I was talking to a group of teachers today about spanking. I don’t know how we got on the topic but I was telling them about my cousin who is a vice principal in the St. Louis area and her school district allows them to spank children.
In any case, one teacher said very matter of [...]

I realized a new iPhone trick this afternoon. I couldn’t find it on any blogs so I thought I would post it here. I don’t know how many people will find it.
 There are a number of ways to key a period. The conventual way is to hit the punctuation key and then a period. A [...]

Yesterday marked the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing abortion in the United States. A great deal of discussion has been had in the last few days on both sides of the argument.
I will not drone on about a topic that is so clearly obvious to me and yet [...]

It is no secret the work I have done for people with disabilities. It is clear then, why this story from Sports Illustrated peaked my interest.
While the SI story meets journalistic standards, I think the details ought to be reordered in order to form a less biased opinion.
Oscar Pistorius, a South African sprinter, was born [...]

Last winter we saw a phenomenon known as “thundersnow”. I hadn’t even known “thundersnow” existed, or that there was, however straightforward, a name for such an event. But we did, and there is. Apparently, a “thundersnow”, “winter thunderstorm”, or “thunder snowstorm” is an exceptionally rare meteorological phenomenon with nearly identical causes as a thunderstorm, with [...]