While doing research for a framing story for  my drabble for the November prompt over at 
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"Federal bank regulators have rejected a request by banks and consumer advocates for a program to let lenders forgive huge portions of credit card debt." (Source here)

In other words: Let's bend over backwards to give the big rich guys their million dollar salaries and bonuses, but heaven forbid we provide any kind of relief to the working and/or ( Read more... )

Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test...
Traditional, Vibrant, and Tasteful

13 Islamic, -7 Impressionist, 0 Ukiyo-e, 10 Cubist, -9 Abstract and -14 Renaissance!


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Rest in peace, Tony Hillerman.

Unless one of your children takes up the quill, I'll never learn if Jim Chee and Bernadette live happily ever after and what happens to Joe Longhorn and his live-in friend Louisa.

Sent to me by a kind person who thought I might need a good laugh on this dreary Friday...

Frank: 'Recently, I was honored to be selected as a judge at a chili cook-off. The original person called in sick at the last moment and I happened to be standing there at the judge's table, asking for directions to the Coors Light truck, when the call came in ( Read more... )

YAY! My husband's gone to Biloxi with his father to play poker and won't be back until Tuesday night. What a luxury to have the house to myself for a couple of days. I'm going to enjoy the heck out of my solitude.

It's been an absolutely gorgeous late fall day here in the Florida panhandle. Temperatures around 80F (27C), no humidity, sunshine, big ( Read more... )

As just found in my e-mailbox:

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I wish I were witty enough to come up with stuff like this. Unfortunately I'm not - but fortunately I have friends who send me things like that.

( The Birk Plan )

The Middle Wife

by anonymous 2nd grade teacher

I've been teaching now for about 15 years. I have 2 kids myself, but the best birth story I know is the one I saw in my own 2nd grade classroom a few years back.

When I was a kid, I loved show-and-tell. So I always have a f ew sessions with my students. It helps them get over shyness and usually, show ( Read more... )

I have five Monarch butterfly babies munching away at my swamp milkweed, but I am afraid they won’t get enough food for further metamorphing because the plants have attracted a nasty kind of yellow bug or aphid that form a thick layer on the stems and the plants look sickly. Of course I can’t spray them because that would kill the caterpillars. ( Read more... )