Today Scrapbook Update welcomes May Flaum as guest blogger of the day. ( Where’s Nancy? ) May Flaum has been published in numerous magazines and is the co-author of Paper + Pixels: Scrapbook Layouts . She is a Big Picture Scrapbooking instructor, education coordinator for the Fiskars Crafts website, and a design team member for Scarlet Lime kits. Over the years she has taught classes around the United States as well as managed a scrapbook store, been on design teams, and done freelance w

When was the last time you saw our country this FUBAR on every possible issue or policy by complete imbeciles? When was the last time you felt as if our government was, in total, being run by lobotomized walking meat sacks with their fingers on the pulse of a corpse? When? Yes, I know Bush II was a blithering idiot most of the time, but at least I could sleep at night and I knew that Nancy and Harry weren’t sneaking into my kid’s room to steal his piggy bank while pouring gasoline on my house

-By Nancy Salvato “The full-time residential model of higher education is getting too expensive for a larger share of the American population.” ( The College of 2020: Students ) Is it any wonder “more and more students are looking for lower-cost alternatives to attending college?” What does the future hold for higher education? White students will likely be outnumbered by minority students on college campuses. People will need to rely on more and more formalized education to advanc

( University of Kansas ) A University of Kansas professor is researching details of relationships forged on social networking sites and determining their significance, depth and potential. Nancy Baym, associate professor of communication studies, became interested early on in how the Internet shapes interpersonal communication and of late has focused her research on social networking sites in ...