Word: showings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reserved entry to the gallery in Florence that houses Michelangelo's David. Anything but cheesy, the tours emphasize culture and environment, with activities like architectural tours of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral and expert-led hikes to track wolves in Alaska. The itineraries are an educational way to show kids the globe--beyond another lap on It's a Small World...
...dogs and almost all the puppies are still alive nearly five months later. About 200 have been placed in private homes or in rescue programs like McBee's. But that still leaves more than 100 dogs in kennels at the warehouse. (See pictures from the World's Ugliest Dog show...
...with Al on the Weather Channel starts at 6 a.m. I get up at 3:15; I'm in the office by 4:45. It helps me in a way, because I've already been doing the weather for an hour by the time I get to the Today show...
Glee, the hit show about a high school Glee club, has very sharp claws, which is one reason kids like it so much. It is routinely, if hilariously, cruel (the sweet jock is described as so dumb, "he's cheating off a girl who thinks the square root of 4 is rainbows"). But no darker current--let alone motivation for parental monitoring--had occurred to me until I recently heard a bright, earnest youth minister tell a group of high school kids that he thought Glee was "anti-Christian...
Which led my husband to pose the question to our daughters, What would Jesus watch? That in turn led to an intriguing--and useful--conversation around our dinner table. It's the oldest teacher's trick, better to show than tell: the Sermon on the Mount was clean and clear, but Jesus also offered parables, little mysteries to unwrap and examine for their coded messages. This is a delivery device especially good for teenagers building their rebellious muscles...