A friend sends me cute memes and jokes on a regular basis, and this one is quite amusing. Enjoy… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Looking ahead to St. Patrick’s Day this Thursday I want to give a quick mention of a contest I’m sponsoring – The Lucky Shenanigans Giveaway *** March 3 – March 17, 2022 *** The prize […]
So, last week in NE Texas where I live it was “near unto summer” as my country uncle used to say about warm spring weather. That was the same uncle who told me the proper way to pronounce the word fire. Where he lived in the hills of West Virginia, the word isn’t pronounced “fi-er”.
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As I shared on Facebook yesterday, the attack on Ukraine has hit me hard. Not because I have family or friends there. Just because I so hate the fact of war. That we keep having them. That we keep sending young men and women to die. In the early 60s when I was going to
Today, I have a neat contest to share with you, but first this picture of Hermione. She is so camera shy, that I don’t often get a good picture of her. She was looking out my office window with such a contemplative expression, and I’m so glad she didn’t move as I slowly picked up
A friend sent me these quips, and I laughed when I read them. They are quite clever. The author was not cited in the message, but since I’m not making any money by sharing them – unless someone wants to send me five bucks 🙂 – here they are for you to enjoy. But first,
While Valentine’s Day is traditionally thought of as a holiday to celebrate romance between people who are in a special close, intimate relationship, I think it’s a holiday to celebrate love, period. That can be between life partners, dating couples, family members, and friends. Let’s Celebrate Love To help us celebrate this day of fun
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Lily looks like she’d like to sleep through the weekend. That idea does have some appeal, but then I wouldn’t get any chores done, not to mention fun with pens and colored pencils again. I posted that picture of my cat because I thought it would be nice to start the blog with something to
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With so much of the country digging out from the massive snow storms that swept from Texas across the Midwest and on to the East Coast, this column from Slim Randles seems most appropriate for today. But first, I must say I was mildly amused at some of the jokes that circulated on social media
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I always knew that reading was good for people. As a child, I escaped into fiction and found comfort, and sometimes guidance, in the stories that took me away from the real world for a while. A real world that wasn’t always pleasant. But I didn’t always realize I was learning so much about life
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“Walls turned sideways are bridges.” Angela Davis Davis is an activist, philosopher, academic, scholar, and author; and a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She’s the author of over ten books on class, feminism, race, and the US prison system. The great Civil Rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. was all about building
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