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Miss Manners on Wedding Websites
So I was reading my local paper (AJC) and found today's Miss Manners' column thought-provoking. The reader question is about wedding websites; the reader describes what sounds like a typical wedding website, comments on the slick, overly-produced nature of it (in his/her view), and asks
Is this a new trend? Is the romance gone from weddings in ( Read more... ) -
I feel like Anne Elliot
I've been teaching Austen's Persuasion this past week, and today I'm having my own Anne Elliot moment:
but Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister; her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give way; --she ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: In The Money
If you won $100 this afternoon, what would you do with it?
Only $100? Man, I guess I'd have a nice dinner, maybe buy a book or two. Couldn't they come up with a better figure? -
Done and Done and Done
I'm done--call me Dr. Anita now! LOL! -
Writer's Block: Wedding bells are ringing
What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Who's in your neighborhood
How well do you know your next-door neighbors?
Hmm. Well, I know that
- he is a he
- he has a black dog that doesn't like me and scares me sometimes
- he has a son who is apparantly no longer living in the state, which is good because he used to sleep in the room next to mine and play video games into the wee small hours when he was in for a visit
- he ( Read more... )
