One Keyword

Guest post by Gerard Mcdaniel

My little sister was really excited when we first got our http://get.wildblue.com/ internet package. Many of our other friends had just gotten the Internet at their house too. Now she says she does not know what she did without it. She has used it to write so many of her school papers and to find different tips for her homework. It is really interesting to go back home now since I have moved out and to see the changes both in her and the house. When I lived there, I spent all of my time using books and going to the library for the types of assignments my sister uses our Internet for now. It really shows how much education is changing everywhere. Even something as basic as the Internet really changes the way you are able to see and experience the world. My little sister can now enter one keyword and see the pyramids of Egypt. I guess we could do the same by finding and referencing books about Egypt at the library, but the point is that it just takes entering one key term in a system to gain access to thousands of articles and resources.

Dusk

Contributed by Milford Woods

My favorite time of day is when I pull into our driveway when I get home from work and walk into our house, take off my shoes, get a cold drink, and sit on the couch a while before everyone else gets home. I can watch the sun starting to set over the lake out our back windows and see a fisherman or two trying to make that final catch of the day before heading back to wherever they came from. I always check our channel guide on the TV to find out if The Waltons or Little House on the Prairie is on. Ever since we got http://www.giveadish.com/ I somehow am able to find one or the other on right when I get home from work. I know it sounds kind of lame, but I like to watch shows that are about a simpler life than I have now. People did not have a lot of money during that time period, and they seemed to be very close to their families. It seems like their biggest concerns had to do with if the big railroad was going to be built through their town and mess up their way of living and steal their land. Or who was going to deliver a baby when the doctor was out on another call. My kids think I am crazy for liking those shows, but I still love to watch them in the quiet moments at dusk.