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A friend of mine, who has poise and grace, let her hair do as it would, and has gone completely white. She carries it off quite well. In fact, I'm a bit envious, and am now considering doing th...

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We adopted Bethsheba, our German Shepherd, January of this year. At the time, she was just a little over 11 months of age. Our original intent when we went to this breeder, was to purchase a pu...

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I have twenty-million of those! The one that immediately springs to mind would have to be September 12th, 1999. It was the fourth day after my daughter's birth, and I had yet to touch her. Oh, ho...

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Daisies..... A horrible person he was, my father. A womanizer. A shirker of parental responsibility. Given that we were an entire country away, there really was no way for us to know otherwi...

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I am disturbed. I live on a quiet, country road -no traffic except for the residents of 8 homes. When the headlights shone in my living room window. I immediately peered out the window. There ...

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For those of you who don't know me - the past two entries were written with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek. I find humor in the potentially offensive - and just have to share. Often, I fi...

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The more I try, the more I can't. Or something like that. Yesterday was 'new pants' day for daughter and me. Being the teenager she is, she tried on about 649,112 pairs before she decided she ...

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According to my recent blood work, I have arrived. With her unsettling, cheery-person, morning voice, she practically exclaimed, "You are post-menopausal." "What?" I gulped and sputtered my ...

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*Direct from the mouths of many - my story is hardly unique! *Discovering that what I had mistaken as brokenness is actually recognized as strength, and that I am in a good place. *Seeing small...

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The teacher - civilian or nun, I can't recall, introduced us to a little boy named Diamond who lived 'At the Back of the North Wind' (by George MacDonald). I remember gazing unseeingly out th...

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That normal dogs howl at sirens, and mine barks like she'd chew through chain-link fencing just to chase the unseen source of that sound? Why is it that,in all her German Shepherdness, she won'...

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"Mom...this year we get to put a condom on a banana." "Ooh, goody. So, how do you feel about that?" "I'm thinking I'm going to ask the teacher who gets to eat the banana when we're done." I'm...

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I am against taking military in Syria. And no, it isn't about indifference. It's because we don't have all the information, we cannot be sure who has done what to whom. And even with that inf...

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I have always had a problem with Ephesians 5: 21-30. It's the whole 'Wives submit to your husbands, husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church, etc' thing. As a Christian, I find this...

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That's how numbers beyond the 'tenth' goes, when you're French. Twenty AND one, thirty AND one, etc. a reminder that you've moved beyond that decade marker. Maybe that's why I never sweat the d...

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When she came to us 7 months ago, she adopted my daughter's pink bunny. "Get your ball, Beth", and she'd get the bunny. "Where is it" (no specifying), and she brings Bunny. Well, today - Bunny ...

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Went to walk Beth (who did nothing, btw) and noticed that while my peppermint plants and Moon Flowers have been decimated by grasshoppers, the weeds remain intact and appear to have a strong root...

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Beth, our 18 month old German Shepherd, has become a sponge. By this I mean that since the attitude adjustment I gave her following her attempt to fill up at the Kitty Krunchy Buffet, she has be...

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Bully was in school today. Daughter was walking with friend and that saw him. Friend said, 'You're mean! ' kids replied, 'hey, I was just trying to help.' He got away with bullying and he kn...

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My daughter was bullied in your school. I received a call from the school counselor to let me know what had happened. "You know how it is - he likely thought he was being funny. That's how tee...

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So, house went up for sale on Friday. Woman came to see house on Saturday, then a couple this afternoon. Woman from Saturday thought price was too high, and made no offer. Suspect someone from...

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Our house officially went up for sale yesterday. I mean...she hammered the sign in my front yard at 11am. We received a call today, an appointment this evening between four and five....and an...

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Interesting event here, in my home. I am trying to learn the cup song. I have already learned to do the cup accompaniment, and I am pretty darned pleased about it. It took perusing just about e...

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I have exactly five minutes - so here goes! Know how when you drive by the gas station and see gas just went down .03 per gallon? What's the first thing you think? Me - I'm inclined to think, ...

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First of all : Dizziness was much more manageable today. The weather front has passed through, and I'm feeling much better about my overall health. I have also added B12 supplement in addition t...

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