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Just For Fun Friday 09/06/13

Just For Fun Friday 09/06/13

Did you ever have a line run through your head, over and over again?  It might have been something you heard on the news, or in a passing conversation.  It might have really not been the line at all, but one that was triggered by the sounds of another.  That was what inspired this parody, written […]

The Older We Get

The Older We Get

“When I was a child, I thought as a child.” Remember thinking our parents had it easy? They could sleep late if they wanted to, could eat whatever they wanted, and didn’t have any worries, any pressures. We couldn’t wait to grow up. I had a sheltered childhood. My parents had great confidence in me, […]

Keeping it Real

Keeping it Real

The week before I was born, my parents’ car gave out, and they found a used convertible that seemed to be just what they wanted. They bought it, feeling sporty and whatever the word for ‘cool’ was back then. They drove to the hospital in it the night I was born, all full of hope […]

Just For Fun Friday  08/16/13

Just For Fun Friday 08/16/13

Maybe not entirely humorous, but interesting thoughts taken from The Book of Poisonous Quotes, compiled by Colin M. Jarman.  My comments are in parentheses, but I found it most strange that the majority of the ‘Literature’ quotations are by writers or publishers, about writers or their works:    A Literary Critic is a person who […]

All I Wanted To Do

All I Wanted To Do

“……….New reality: And the geek shall inherit the earth” I saw this headline on Yahoo! news yesterday morning and had to laugh. I have no doubt that it is true.  When my daughter was a teen, I pointed out to her that one of her friends’ dads was a ‘nerd’ in our class at school - small, […]