I am appalled by the recent decision to dismiss Austin, Texas, art teacher Tamara Hoover after she posed for artful nude photos. Being a teacher today is hard enough without a person's personal life coming under attack every time he or she turns around.
Every day should be Mother's Day. Mothers, especially single moms, are the true unsung heroes of America, working tirelessly and often thanklessly every day, trying to make a difference in the lives of their children and ultimately the world.
I used to think my dad was the real Chicken Little, hiding out in different towns, his true identity kept secret by the Witness Protection Program.
There are aliens among us. No, I don't mean illegal immigrants - I mean men. That's right, men. Those clueless scoundrels we love to hate and hate to love.
As a passionate young teacher working with at-risk teens, I taught myself to practice non-judgment and to avoid stereotyping people based on the color of their skin. Naively, I thought I would change the world this way, one student at a time. What I wasn't prepared for was the attitudes and emotions that had been handed down generation after generation that my students now carried with them like a mantra.
by Lucinda Ulrich Daily Lobo columnist By now, unless you live in a cave, you've probably heard that Dick Cheney, the vice president of the United States, shot one of his constituents. Apparently, Dick shot his hunting buddy from 30 yards away, enough distance in hunting circles to determine that ...
It might just be me, but it really seems that there is no such thing as privacy anymore.
by Lucinda Ulrich Daily Lobo columnist Ah, the first days of a new semester. The only time of year I don't have to suffer through a gauntlet of bureaucracy, technology and everyday life to survive as graduate student at UNM - as was illustrated by the last days of the fall semester. Files saved to CDs mysteriously disappeared; papers that were painstakingly crafted and saved to the hard drive of my laptop were mysteriously locked the day before most of them were due; research files for a paper that was worth almost 50 percent of my grade in one class was saved in a departmental cyberspace campus network - with assurance from a technical expert that I would be able to access this information from any computer in the universe.
by Lucinda Ulrich Daily Lobo columnist So much for being a little pregnant, as if that was ever possible anyway - now there's such a thing as being a lot pregnant. I was perusing the Health Channel when I stumbled upon the story of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, proudly pregnant with their 15th - you read it right, their 15th - child.
by Lucinda Ulrich Daily Lobo columnist There I am - sitting in the dark, laughing through some silly previews, munching on cholesterol-ridden popcorn, happily filling my arteries with fat and sucking down caffeine-laden soda. Mostly just looking forward to two hours of escape from the daily stress called my life.
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