Happy Mother's Day, and Happy Birthday to my mom, who would have been 84 years old today ( Read more... )

The 5 Best Things I Inherited From My Dad:


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Today the story of MY FIRST HIGH SCHOOL CRUSH is featured in Memories Monday by the fabulous Nisha Sharma.

I'd post the real picture...but sheesh, shouldn't some things be left to the imagination?

carriejones asked for "good braces" stories today. This isn't "good" but it's gruesome. You know how I love gruesome. So do you, or you'd stop reading right here ( Read more... )

Inspired by melissa_writing here is a list of my previously written/trashed/published/soon-to-be-published/hopefully-will-be-published/will never see the light of day novels ( Read more... )

Work: Yeah, I had to work Easter Sunday. Not too bad of a shift till the very end, when it took 10 people to subdue a single patient. I gave the injections, which reminded me of a scene out of M*A*S*H except we remembered to pull down his pants. Don't you love those shows when they jab the needles right through the clothes? Uh, that never happens ( Read more... )

Well, as bad as this last winter storm was, it was nothing compared to the Blizzard of '78. With the power completely out in my apartment building, I had to creep down four flights of stairs with a flashlight. Of course my car was buried and frozen shut, so my dad came over with, I dunno, a blowtorch or something, and got me into it. After my shift ( Read more... )

I never thought about my own mortality when I was younger--say, at age 20 when my friend Rosa and I loaded up her canary yellow Dodge Challenger and drove to Canada with nothing but a road map and some money ( Read more... )

thebadgirl2007 posted a great link on her BLOG to about bullying.

These are some of the things they suggest you tell your children:

"If they see someone else being bullied they should always try to stop it. If they do nothing, they're saying that bullying is okay with them ( Read more... )

Last Friday night was Mary and Kenneth's wedding reception. It took me a solid week to download the pictures. Actually, hubby got stuck with the job since I'm so technically challenged, but here we are:

Mary and Kenneth:

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