Just For Fun Friday 12/13/13
A Cautionary Tail Hi! I’m Lucy. I love to get high. No, silly…not with that stuff that messes up your mind. I like to get into treetops, on top of bookcases, perch on the headboard…you know. I like to watch my owner do things, too. Wherever she is, I’m right beside her, checking things out. She […]
Fact, Fiction, or Faction?
Did you ever hear your child tell a friend about something and wonder how he managed to get all the facts wrong? Did you ever re-tell something at a family gathering and have your parent, your sibling, or your own child argue the facts -when you vividly remembered every detail? For 40-something years, I carried […]
Just For Fun Friday 12/06/13
The Color of Christmas There’s a bright color at this time of year that gladdens our hearts and fills us with cheer – Red velvet curtains held back by Red knots, Red tablecloths glitter with Red sequined dots, and the mantel is draped with Red felt, shaped like socks. Red cider warms us, […]
The Write List (you can groan now…)
For me, Christmas shopping is an exercise in restraint. When asked “What do you want for Christmas?”, I can’t think of a darned thing. But when I’m shopping for others, all sorts of things entice me. I could break my budget buying one for her, one for me, one for him, one for me, one for… My […]
Just For Fun Friday 11/29/13
It’s Black Friday. Are you participating in the madness? Black Friday wasn’t always a day that got our hearts thumping. It was originally associated with a financial crisis of 1869. Hmm…in the long run, not much has changed, has it? Jumping forward in history, the earliest reference of Black Friday to the shopping day after […]
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