There is a child we all know and her name is Grief. Grief is the close sibling of Joy and Ecstacy. You can often tell when these children are around: Joy is there at the birth of a baby, and dances with a child’s wonderment at discovering something new. Ecstacy hovers near when two lovers are locked in passionate embrace. When a loved one leaves us ( Read more... )

Happy Mardi Gras everyone!

And if you're in the midwest, Happy Paczki Day! (That's pronounced poonch-kees; its Polish, and no it doesn't resemble anything like its spelled).

Paczkis are jelly doughnuts, also known as bismarks. Its all part of the Day Before Lent Begins celebration. I don't plan on acknowledging Lent in a particular way, ( Read more... )

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This was yanked from Deborah Oak's blogSecond Annual Brigid in Cyberspace Poetry Reading ( Read more... )

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I've been having more and more trouble with my cell phone lately.  I have Cingular, which bought out AT&T a while back.  My phone is a Nokia, and I've been quite happy with it until lately.  Right now, its actually on "Roam", which is ridiculous because I'm at home in a well populated Chicago suburb.  I've never had to Roam before.

In the last ( Read more... )

This subject might seem a little early, since its a week before Thanksgiving, but then again it isn't.

I went to the grocery store today to shop for Thanksgiving dinner.

I came home and as my mom & I were putting away groceries, I surveyed what we had to see what we still needed - well, wanted is really the term.  I saw that we had just about ( Read more... )

So, I'm out for a walk in the park as I am wont to do in the early evening, now that the breeze is blowing and the temperature has dropped slightly.  I took a few minutes to sit along the creek to watch the sunset, listen to the birds and the echo of cars off of nearby Rte 53.  Then I decide to finish my walk before its gets dark out.

I get to one ( Read more... )

Your results:
You are R2-D2
R2-D2
65%
Boba Fett
63%
Luke Skywalker
61%
Princess Leia
60%
Padme
60%
Mace Windu
60%
Obi-Wan Kenobi
59%
Chewbacca
59%
Qui-Gon Jinn
57%
Han Solo
56%

What you lack in height
  and communication skills,
you make up for in industriousness,
technical know-how and being there
when others need you most.


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Ok, I'm trying to understand, and I don't. The following rant is more to simply get it off my chest. Respond if you like, and if not, don't.
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