..When I was told off by the angry principal for being evil spawn of evil people...I *think* that Patrick Flores was still indeed Archbishop of the diocese ( Read more... )

Thanks to conversations about "Dick and Jane" style children's readers with a friend, I found the old 1940's-50's primary reader I saved from the dumpster at my first Catholic school. The copy I have is from the second or so printing in 1952 ( Read more... )

Still on my childhood nostalgia kick. The truth is, I still dream quite often about the 'good old days' and growing up in One Stop Copy Shop, in particular, when it was located on Northeast Parkway, just off the Austin Highway.

( Happy trip down memory lane. )

Sorry if you're a friend of hers too and have already had this inflicted, BUT:

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*wants her She-Ra dolls back*

My mother has gone south to Terlingua with the neighbors for the Home Tour. I suspect they will have Tons O Fun, and it'll be a great chance for Mom to play catch up with Carol (and Allen if he went as well) since they've been absent from our neighborhood for many months ( Read more... )

I want to write a poem about how Ryo-Ohki and Oreo are both my 'nannies' when it comes to bedtime, though I'm having a hard time distilling it down into lines and stanzas ( Read more... )