Snack-Sized Wisdom
I love quotes. I love words in general, but quotes are the best. When I was a kid, I read every single “Quotable Quotes” section in the Readers Digest every single month. Loved them. I still love quotes. They are like snack-sized bites of wisdom. Need a quick fix? Have one. Need more? Keep going…
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Potentially Useful Skills: A Follow-Up
My Mom always says, “Half of being smart is knowing what you’re dumb at.” How true. And the older I get, the smarter Mom gets, of course. Maybe it’s just that as we mature, we realize that our parents actually do know what they’re talking about. They do have all that experience they lay claim…
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A Standing Date
On the night they met, my Grandmother told my Grandfather that he was crazy. I’m pretty sure she told him that many more times over the course of their life together, but that night was the first – at least that’s how I remember the story. My Grandparents were practically babies when they met – 14…
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Guest Post by Proxy – Five Random Facts
I asked the Fab Hub for help with this post…it was harder than it looked. He would not provide me with examples of five random things about me or my family that he felt were interesting, funny, bizarre, or anything else. Why not? He needed more specific criteria. I needed someone more likely to be able to…
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About That Detention…
So, when Kat visited and commented on the Detention post, she suggested that as an adult, it would be wise to avoid the kissing hallway. Good advice. Well, here’s the funny part about that… It occurs to me that the reason the whole PDA detention/math teacher thing haunts me is that the Fab Hub and…
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Detention: Not Exactly The Breakfast Club
I’m pretty sure I only served one or two detentions in school. I was a “good kid.” I was a teacher’s kid, for crying out loud. There was really no option where in-school conduct was concerned – if you did something bad and your parent was a teacher, they knew all about it before your butt…
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Making Good on Some Promises
Sometimes life gets away from me. It’s kind of like an unruly dog. He snaps the leash and takes off running. I chase after him, the world a blur as it whizzes by… A few weeks ago, I did a post that included quite a bit of food. In that post, I mentioned that I…
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Happy New Year to You!
Hello, dear readers and friends… Yes, I am still alive. I know I have been “off the grid,” here for a while. It really was unintentional. I posted two sort of gush-my-heart-out posts right after the events of Newtown, CT a couple of weeks ago and then…well, I just felt kind of off. I had…
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Who Knew?
What did we ever do without Google? I find it simply fascinating that Googl-ing is verb – as in to Google something. Ask a question to which no one in the near vicinity knows the answer and some wise soul will suggest that you “Google it” to find the answer. I like verbs. I like doing. People…
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A New Favorite
Can’t lie. Despite my much-needed afternoon off, I am still feeling a bit whirlwindish. Yes, that’s a word. English majors are allowed to make up words whenever it suits them. It’s in the handbook. Anyway… It’s Thursday so I’m joining Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop again. This week I opted for the easy prompt. (Told you…can’t…
