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“Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting Continue reading A Pious and Exemplary Community
Although this deadline isn’t until the end of April 2010, put it on your calendar! With no fee to enter and cash prizes you have four months to polish your nature poems.
“I live on good soup, not on fine words.” Moliere Many cultures start the new year by eating lentils or black eye peas, symbols of prosperity and good luck. Here’s my recipe for a Greek style lentil soup to start Continue reading Live on Good Soup and Words
“The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!” Edward Payson Powell New Year’s Continue reading The New Year is Almost Here!
Giraffe Cam at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Refresh the page.
“At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.” William Shakespeare So what Shakespeare is really saying is he’s dreaming of a white Christmas? Continue reading But Like Of Each Thing That in Season Grows
Now you can just buy them… Thanks to Yvonne for pointing me in this direction! Aren’t they cute? I found out yesterday I passed my Progress Review for school with my 18 page science paper on feeding and walking the Continue reading Need More Brain Cells?
Yesterday morning I sent in a entry for Poetic Shutterbug’s Music in Nature’s Contest, this morning I was very pleased to read that I won an honorable mention. Read the winning poems here. Thanks to Joanne for the fun contest!
Now that this video has had over 4,000,000 hits, the company that makes the pink gloves is donating money for women who can’t afford mammograms. Good job Portland St. Vincent Hospital! Down Generation Pink Vinyl Powder-Free Exam Gloves