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The Dirty Underbelly of Berea College
I graduated High School in 1988. I was born into a poor, underprivileged family and I basically grew up in the southern coalfields of West Virginia. We were a 'welfare' family. I lived in a small, two bedroom, single-wide trailer with my mother, my younger sister and two dogs. At the time I started to seriously consider going to college, I was ( Read more... ) -
Surprise!!!!
It certainly was a surprise when I walked into the office a few days ago and discovered, rather quickly, that our young Lop 'Scarlett' should more appropriately be named 'Rhett'. :/
Baby Bunnies...
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Goodbye Facebook...
I've been gone a long time. I was sucked into the world of Facebook, putting up with an increasingly obnoxious barrage of advertising, game updates and 'invitations' and finally, being notified by Facebook that I can ONLY use my 'real, legal name' for my profile. -_- That's the final straw. If I cannot have a degree of anonymity in my online ( Read more... ) -
Spreading Joy through Bears
Hardees on Harper Road in Beckley, WV has many regular patrons, but few may be as interesting as the lovely lady my son and I met there this morning.
She sat at her table, in a corner, first praying long and sincerely, then slowly munching away at her breakfast sandwiches, a twinkle in her eye as she would randomly reach over and push the head of ( Read more... ) -
Boy Scouts of America?
Last night, I watched an episode of Penn & Teller's 'Bullshit' series. The focus for the episode, was the Boys Scouts of America ( Read more... ) -
Homeschooling
My son is 3yrs old and I get raised eyebrows and comments ranging from 'That's great!' to 'What's wrong with public school?' when I tell people that I plan to homeschool. Well, I don't PLAN to homeschool, I've been doing it all along ( Read more... ) -
Losses - RIP Harold Rick Hayes
poohnnova - 1970 - 7/1/10
To those who are interested, we are putting together a memorial service for Rick in about 3 weeks. It will probably be held in Mullens, WV. There will be a memorial slideshow and an opportunity for people to say something about him. I will also be collecting signatures of attendees, which will be forwarded to his mother, to ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: I May Be Crazy
A pelvis.
I guess I'm supposed to be more creative than that, though.
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Gotta love these...
(thanks lebo_superman )
Error Messages You Don't Want to See (from Joke of the Day)
An error has occurred - could be anything really.
Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred?
Error: An unspecified error has occurred. Please correct the error to continue.
Having been erased, the document you were working on must now be retyped.
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