There are thousands of chili recipes from around the world using a vast variety of ingredients and suited towards any taste.  For those with simpler tastes, try my original recipe, made easy in your favorite slow-cooker or crockpot.  True Texas-style chili has no beans added, but experimentation is... read more

After checking this site’s statistics on visits, it is easy to say that traffic here is building. That is good for both the contributors and the visitors as web usage tends to be looked on as prestigious.   All the big companies are interested in traffic since that is where the money is. It also spawns... read more

Can you believe Thanksgiving is only 2 weeks away? At the preschool where I work, we’ve already made our hand-turkeys. We’ve been learning songs for our Thanksgiving Feast, and graced our wall with a turkey that possesses hand-cut tail feathers. The pumpkins are now history. I have always really... read more

In this week’s Time Magazine, a piece states that new internet blogs are increasing at the rate of 100,000 per day. Another fact is that, every day, over one million posts are made to individual blogs. Hmmm…do you think this will make children sit up and pay more attention in their grammar and punctuation... read more

Howdy, ya’ll! It’s been far too long since I’ve written here, so thought I’d put up a brief post tonight, to share a few scattered thoughts!  (What can I say - life’s busy!) I just took my dogs for their before-bedtime potty walk, and when I walked into the 45 degree Texas... read more

Well, kind readers, I guess it’s time for the updates I have promised regarding a few of my articles here at the Compendium. I hope that they bring a few smiles your way. Referring back to Spooky Sounds parts one and two, in terms of the odd noises and strange occurrences in my home, all has been... read more

When exactly constitutes condescension? If you really think about it, that’s a hard one to pin down without examples. After all, in many cases the person doing the condescending is rarely obnoxious, and the tone and/or choice of words may be a person’s usual speaking style. So how do you recognize... read more

Last Thanksgiving, I visited a relative whose daughter was suffering from severe kidney failure. The father was gone and neither the mother nor the brother was a match. The woman had been on a transplant list for almost four years, and dialysis, after 48 months, was become more and more difficult on... read more

Some people are punctuality-challenged. Just like the internal body clocks that I wrote about a couple of months ago, it appears that this won’t change. Like so many other “conditions”, the symptoms may temporarily improve, but the underlying causes will never go away… I, for one, have this... read more

The amount of use a computer gets and its exposure to household elements contributes to the keyboard and mouse collecting some debris. This can range anywhere from normal household dust to spilled food or drink. Many people are not aware that a computer keyboard and mouse can be cleaned at home and... read more