Tell us about your SENIOR year of high school! The longer ago it was, the more fun the answers will be ( Read more... )

I had planned to come here on Thanksgiving and let you know how thankful I am to have all of you on LJ in my life. Mama always said, however, that it is never too late to say thank you, so...

T*H*A*N*K Y*O*U*!!!
You enrich my life in so many ways.Thanksgiving is one of my two favorite hoidays -- the other is Passover -- and this year turned out ( Read more... )

When my father retired, he stuck to his workaday schedule: up at 6:30 a.m., in bed by 10:00. That seems nutz to me, but Daddy was naturally *shudder* a morning person. I am not. I got up at 6:30 a.m., five days a week, for years. Then, being a night person, I'd stay up until 11:00, 11:30, even midnight which meant I crashed on the weekend ( Read more... )

With a nod of the head to spikesgirl58:

Do you use the self checkout lane in your grocery store?

If there isn't one, would you like there to be?

Do you bring your own bags to the store? Do you have a favorite?

1. What is your favorite 'food' holiday?It's a tie between Thanksgiving and Passover. Both holidays have a spiritual side to them, in both the greed element is muted (no presents!), and they revolve around family, food, and cherished recipes. It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without stuffing; it wouldn't be Passover without Mutti's matzah balls. (Mutti ( Read more... )

I'm still having a hard time dealing with the results of our election. I've reset my TV to start at HGTV instead of MSNBC, I detoxed with a J. D. Robb romance/police procedural (reading doesn't get any lighter than that!), and I'm skipping all the articles on politics in the New York Times and instead learning about raccoons in Central Park and ( Read more... )

The Washington Post today ran an opinion piece by Garrison Keiler that spoke to me and for me, just much more eloquently and thoughtfully than I could do: Trump Voters Will Not Like What Happens Next. I found comforting; I think you will too.

Enjoy! FanSee

Like most of the people I know, I'm stunned, astonished, saddened, and hurting. I'm not defeated. As Tim Kaine said yesterday, "They kill't us, but they ain't whipped us yet ( Read more... )

Whew! The Philadelphia transit strike was settled early this morning, so the buses, trolleys, subway, and the El will all begin rolling today. They should all be on schedule tomorrow. This is huge for the Democrats, huge for Pennsylvania and huge for me ( Read more... )

Multi-tasking, I like it not. I like to start something and keep at it until I finish. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? For me, it's a comfortable thing. And it's why I'm now reporting on some of the things I did during the fifteen days I spent posting about my trip to Italy. It's not going to be a comprehensive post because, you know, time has ( Read more... )