As food service manager (yes I teach and yes I wear many hats), I’m pretty proud of the nutrition that I’m helping to provide to the students at my school. This picture doesn’t look like much, but I’m really satisfied with what’s on this plate. I’ve made it a point, after seeing “Super Size Me”, not to buy into the nonsensical concept of “promoting healthy choices”, but then offering the children trash just to make a quick buck. The kids would eat nothing but flaming hot cheetos and pop if they designed the food calendar.

• Pasta al dente
• 1% chocolate milk
• fresh tuna on a bed of lettuce
• two crackers
• choice of carrots or “trees” with ranch sauce.

We’re required per the federal lunch program to offer the children 1% white milk each day. It doesn’t matter if they need the vitamins that are in juices or the good ole’ hydration that’s in water, we have to offer them 1% white milk. So I’m thinking of doing freshly squeezed juice, water, and white milk as an option everyday. 98% of the kids choose chocolate milk over white. And I think they’re much more likely to choose the juice or water over the white milk. Kids are bad when it comes to sugar.

Is it just me, or does james white love to cry “ad-hominem”?

Google search “ad hominem” at aomin.org

The Catholic Media Convocation, to be held in May of this year, will feature a workshop about podcasting. It will be presented by the Disciples with Microphones, an organization entrusted to the holy spirit, and bent on adding a new dimension of creativity to catholic radio.

Podcasting: Evangelizing through storytelling

Podcasting is the audio equivalent of blogging, and it is a cheap, simple and effective way to reach people – especially teens and young adults – with news and stories about the Catholic faith. It basically allows anyone who has a PC and a microphone to be a broadcaster. Listeners can listen to podcasts over the internet or download the MP3s into their iPods or other portable devices. The workshop will go into details about how Catholic communicators can
set up their own podcasts, how it can contribute to convergence — print publications broadcasting some of their stories, for instance — and why storytelling is an effective way to evangelize through this new way of broadcasting.

PDF Sign up sheet for the event

Gates shmates.

“Christo and Jeanne-Claude, who spent 27 years getting permission for their project and who have shelled out upwards of $21 million to erect the arches for a 16-day Central Park season, claim there is absolutely no point to The Gates – no message, no moral imperative, no statement, nothing.

“We do not build messages, we do not build symbols,” Jeanne-Claude said in one of her many interviews this week. “It is only a work of art. Nothing else.”

So um…They’re orange. Okay let’s go home.

She tripped over her own feet while at the library. Gravity and her lack of cat-like reflexes caused her to collide with a bookshelf. Mommy and daddy were very scared, but knew she was okay. I worried a bit when the rookie was putting the 3 internal and 10 external stitches into my baby’s skin.

We’ve been freaking out, grasping out into the air after her and cursing, every move she’s made recently. She continues to climb and run.