Vikings:  It's another conspiracy theory.  I've started working on a blog and no, it's not on politics.  It's about teaching art to children.  My plan is to blog about everything I do in the classroom, including lesson plans, step-by-step instructions, and pictures.  Also a web site is in the works.  Art galleries.  That and the work with my band, yard work, grand children (I get asked to babysit a lot in the summer) plus the every growing honey do list, keeps me busy.   And the chest pains are back but it may just be from acid reflux.  I see the cardiologist on the 21st.   

I've had fun modding this board and I think I've even been modded myself once.  But it is the right time for me to move on to other things.  I appreciate all the support I've been given by the globals, and it's been a lot.  I leave on good terms and appreciate being allowed to moderate board (despite the baggage I still carry around a bit).   As I've said to someone else, I'm a reformed twerp.  I know my history.   It says a lot to me that I was allowed to moderate three boards. So for that I say thanks to all the powers that be. 

Ok, my official (off topic) goodbye is done.  The decision was mine.  No one asked me to resign etc.  I leave because it's time to move on and give the reins to another. 

Now, how about that Helen Thomas and how she grilled Obama's press secretary and held his feet to the fire on the White House's town hall meeting procedures?  Whoa!  That gal's got spunk for a old lady.  Anybody else see how she pointed her pen at the press secretary and after he said they'd "talk about this at a later time," she piped back, "No, we'll talk about this now!"   Yeah, and she's a liberal!  That's what the press should be doing, holding the President and  politicans accountable. !!!