...familiar and even comforting. So I dug out this picture of me from July 1991. Yeah, I love Kate's dress. Everyone else saw a brief vision of Grace Kelly as she looked on her wedding day in 1956--brief, and then the vision was all Kate Middleton, the moment was all her own. I saw mine and my mother's dress, first worn by Mom in 1952. Someday ( Read more... )

 
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I’m not a religious person, but I do get a little angry at people who say the story of Jesus’ death is just a myth and then sit down to their ham dinners while the kids go outside to hunt for Easter eggs. I mean, if you are going to co-opt the celebration of some faith or culture, try to find some truth in it that you can be comfortable with.


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 ....and it only cost me the price of a bottle of very nice whisky.

My participation in a program called Friends of Laphroaig has entitled me to hold and lease one square foot of land on the island of Islay, at the Laphroaig distillery.  Obviously, there is a stipulation that I must lease it back to the distillery at a price described below.  That's ( Read more... )

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 I spoke ill of the dead yesterday ( Read more... )

 In for a penny, in for a pound--my grad school advisor used to say that all the time!  I knew what I was getting myself into when I responded to Mumsy's post of this meme, but I have to let you know I might be a tad slow in getting your homework back to you after you comment.  I'm going out of town for Thanksgiving and I am sooo not ready......

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 My daughter and I have recently fallen in love with this show which is constantly shown in reruns in our area.  Until this morning, I wasn't actually sure it was still in production, that's how out of touch I am with primetime.  But I guess this little snippet confirms that is is still alive and well, and I am delighted at what it reveals!

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 I think I've found my next show to be loyal to...or obsessed with.... --on Cartoon Network, of all places.  And no, it's not a cartoon--it's called 'Tower Prep'.  We just had the third episode last night [8 pm, Tuesdays are the new episodes each week], and so far the writing is really good and the story is very engaging ( Read more... )