I got a 100% on the Birds in Dead Trees test!

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It's another quiet night in Paradise (yes, it is a city in California); I suppose that is why I went down to Chico to hang with the darker side on Monday. It was great to see L again; when we lived in Eugene we would regularly chat. Since her divorce with J, we have not really connected. I am glad that we could at last be friends. Some things just ( Read more... )

Recently I had a conversation with a couple friends who assumed from the way I live that I was financially not well off. They soon learned that I was just being frugal and smart with my money. I don't drive the nicest car (not even my car, it's a company car) and I live with my parents (they are elderly and feel more secure with me there, I get ( Read more... )

If you become involved in knitting or are otherwise involved in the fiber arts, you begin to accumulate a stash. You visit a quaint little seaside town with the equally quaint yarn shop, you buy yarn. Go to a knitting conference, you buy yarn. Your favorite local shop has a special that week in worsted malabrigo in just the color you have been ( Read more... )

Sifu David travels a great deal. He visits family in Hong Kong. And, often he teaches seminars in Europe, Asia, and throughout the United States. With Sifu’s immense talent for martial arts comes a passion for the literature in the filed field. His travel naturally affords him great opportunity to visit the many local bookshops around the world to ( Read more... )

It has been a long week; preparing and teaching the Hazard Tree seminar on Thursday took a good amount of my time. Of course, it was scheduled in the afternoon out in the 100-degree heat. Thankfully we were under trees for most of it. There was a good turn out, about 40 folks ( Read more... )

I must confess I always get nervous when receiving a compliment from an English teacher, particularly on my writing. Case in point, have you ever looked up the history of the meaning of "nice" in the OED ( Read more... )

Her statement was basic enough, I just did not know how to answer.

"Gregory, you know in the past year and a half I have known you, you have never completed a single knitting project." C said looking up from her own project.  My expression went blank as I searched my memory, sure enough I had not completed a single thing since my return to the bay ( Read more... )

Tick: "...And Christ knows I owe her a
couple of favours. I'm sorry that I never told
you. I'm not sorry that you're here."

Bernadette: "Don't worry about it dolls. I'm as
jealous as hell."

From: The Adventures Of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert