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  • This is where I'll be this weekend, folks....Mackinac Island, Michigan! My daughter's cousin is getting married at a church on the island....

  • I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson Well, I'm a big fan of Ralph's, but I still like quotations. And while I was searching for that one, I ran into a short essay of his wherein he writes…

  • Tell Me (Latimer/Bardens) Tell me everythingDon't be afraid to give yourself awaySometimes, it's easierYour fears melt awayAnd turn it all to moonshineWords that rhymeStill in your mindStill in your mind Play me…

  • James Michener has always been one of my favorite writers. Notice I said writer, not author. He made that distinction in his memoir, The World Is My Home, which I've just finished re-reading. The first Michener n…

  • OK. I accept that I'm considered "middle-aged" in terms of chronological time. And I know that Desiderata says "take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth". And I KNOW that chang…

  • It's alllllllllll about Thelonious Monk in the CD jukebox this morning. I had the auto DJ feature pick out 3 hours' worth of tracks to play while I work........... I'll be joining the 21st century soon, PC-wise. …

  • http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=15021&CFID=7379889&CFTOKEN=1816216 Explains it all, Republican-style....

  • So let's see if I understand this correctly... 9/11 happens...we chase after Osama in Afghanistan...still haven't caught him... Shrub Joonyur tells us Saddam Hussein is bad, bad, bad & has nasty weapons of mass des…

  • Hey, whoever is lucky visitor #18,000...let me know.....

  • Religion that I can get into.......this is part of a post that someone on my LJ friends' list came up with... Gimme that Old-Time Religion!!!Add your own verse if you can! (with apologies to the wonderful Pete Seeger! :…

  • I've been thinking lately about Xanga subscribers. What makes me subscribe to a site? What keeps me coming back? What keeps regular readers coming back HERE?... Most of the people I sub to are visitors to my page. I…

  • A word you never thought you'd want to know...or need to know...but after you read this, you WILL know..... retromingent (re-tro-MIN-jent) adjective...Urinating backwards.noun-An animal that passes urine backwards, e.g.…

  • Have y'ever gone to your SIR list, looked at the SIRs, realized most of them have meaningful stuff to say that you want to comment on...only you don't feel like commenting? I thought so! G'night, Xanga!...

  • Two Eskimos were sitting in their kayak, out on the open sea. They realized that they were becoming quite cold. So they lit a fire in the kayak to keep warm. After awhile, the kayak started to sink. The moral of the …

  • Since we're on the subject of time this week... "The thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble is Sex." -- John Barrymore (someone wrote a BOOK about this???.......)

  • "The surest poison is time." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hmm.....much food for thought in that statement. Doesn't time also heal all wounds (or wound all heels...thank you, John Lennon)? I wonder what ol' Ralph meant.…

  • "Time isn't a commodity, something you pass around like cake. Time is the substance of life. When anyone asks you to give your time, they're really asking for a chunk of your life." --Antoinette Bosco ....and yet the …

  • Stolen from Dreamline ..... Where was I... 30 years ago...1973, 17 yo, a junior in HS in Ohio, lusting after girls who wouldn't give me the time of day. Janis Ian's 'At 17' could have been my theme song..... 20 years…

  • TANSTAAFL! ---Robert A. Heinlein (translation: there ain't no such thing as a free lunch)

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