Under Construction

Please do not worry that I have forgotten you, dearest Readers that normally have a link on my page. I'm trying Blogger's new template generator on for size and I have not yet had the time to work on the links portion.Please feel free to hum your favorite song while I wo...

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Walking for a Cure for ALS

Email from AnnieElf:I am sending this to you all as a special request to help me as I help my friend Tammy Brierly, a 17 year survivor of Lou Gehrig's disease – also known as ALS. The normal lifespan from diagnosis to death is ten years. The remarkable and miraculous Tammy has survived 17 years and still maintains a high quality of life.On October 25th, I and my family will be...

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Summer 2008

Fall is officially here (I needn’t state the obvious.) This is the time of year where I get ready for the holidays. Better Half and I are cleaning our downstairs carpets, washing down the woodwork and wiping down walls. The décor becomes more simplified in order to make room for the knickknacks that will mutate from fall into winter, encompassing Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas....

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Failure Joke (from email)

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"Stomach flu" and Toad

I’m back from the dead, “almost literally”, having survived a personal situation and a bad bout of the “stomach flu”. The personal situation would make for poor blogging fodder as it has little bearing on any except those directly involved.There is no such beast as a stomach flu, by the way. The symptoms usually indicate a bacterial or viral contagion of some sort; it is not a...

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Fly the Flag; Remembering 9/11 on Patriot's Day

The miracle is not that we survived, but that we rose up with our heads held high, hand in hand.My generation is too young to understand the strong feelings of anger and solidarity following the attack on Pearl Harbor. We were blessed in that we never truly knew war, a peer group too young to comprehend Vietnam.On September 11, we each paused in our daily routine to watch, to listen,...

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Praying Mantis

This fellow was clinging to our window screen today. He’s a beautiful praying mantis. I only wish that I could have captured the other side of h...

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