By virtue of your unwavering dedication to fill Our fair realm with sounds of song and melody, it is thus Our pleasure to bestow upon Cliar Cu Buidhe ~ L'Honneur De La Chanson ~ for exceptional performances in ~Musical Performance ~   Your skill not only fills the soul of the musician, but brings joy to those around you, and adds a measure of grace ( Read more... )

Your result for The hardcore SCA Test...
King's Advisor

You may just be older than dirt, or a raving lunatic. You are about as involved as you could possibly be in the SCA. When you are at events you probably look like you just stepped out of a book. You're blood runs in kingdom colors, you are probably a peer, and your living room probably looks a ( Read more... )

When I was a little girl, growing up in a small town in western PA, we had a very close knit neighborhood.  Most of the Dads were veterans of WWII, many had served together, in the same unit, during the war, and a few had even migrated to the neighborhood from a nearby farming community.  Most of us were related to at least one other neighborhood ( Read more... )

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I'm not sure how it happened, but (real) men are in dangerously short supply.  I hear my single women friends complain of this often.  I think I may agree with them.  They just don't make them like they used to.

We seemed to have raised a generation of 'technology-smart' young men (and women), who have very few life skills.  To make matters worse ( Read more... )

Dear Lizard People,

Stay out of my house.  Really.

I have no axe to grind with you, if you stay out of my house.  You are welcome in my yard, and in my garden, to scamper along the fence or over the wall.  You may eat all the bugs you find there, especially the ants and spiders (there are more than enough to go around).

But, stay the hell out of my ( Read more... )

I know what I want to be when I grow up!

I never watch Nightline.  This is truly amazing, that I happened upon this story they were airing last night.  Wake up,
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Here are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.

Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again ( Read more... )