Answer the following questions with two words:

1. Yourself: good father
2. Your car: Chrysler van
3. Your Hair: black
4. Your mother: great cook
5. Your father:heroic example
6. Your Favorite item: too many
7. Your Dream Last Night: very personal
8. Your Favorite Drink: good champagne
9. Your Dream Home: have blueprints!
10. The Room You Are In: flower shop
( Read more... )

Exhaustion iis the byword here today. As many of you know, Kathy owns a ( Read more... )

Sorry folks. Here is the link to "Draft Dodger Rag."

It epitomizes my generation's resistance to the Viet Nam war and to the draft that took away many of our friends.

Phil Ochs - Draft Dodger Rag

The Chad Mitchell Trio also does a great version of this, too.

With thanks to neonnurse

'When you see this, post an anti-war song in your journal' meme:

Draft Dodger Rag

By Phil Ochs

I'm just a typical American boy from a typical American town
I believe in
God and Senator Dodd and keeping old Castro down
And when it came my time to
serve I knew better dead than red
But when I got to my old draft board ( Read more... )

Last evening our daughter Kissed_a_drunk gave songdog and me an unexpected, but very funny gift. It gave us agood laugh, and I felt compelled to share with all of you.

I hope you get a good laugh, or at least a bis smile from it:

( Read more... )

This Saturday (January 28) is my baby's Sweet 16th birthday. For her, this a milestone, to be sure. She stands at the threshold of adulthood, experiencing all of the wonders that come with being 16 years old. It seems as if it were only last week that we found her in the hospital orphanage in Craiova, Romania. She was in a ward with 33 other ( Read more... )

In the year 2006 I resolve to:

Poke a badger with a spoon.

Get your resolution here

Happy 2006 to my family. I love you all and look forward to the great years ahead for our happy clan ( Read more... )

You Should Get a MFA (Masters of Fine Arts)
( Read more... )

You Are 25 Years Old
( Read more... )

Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday, especially this year. songdog and I are so very lucky to have our entire family gathering at our home. In addition to sister-in-law primroseburrows, we will bw dining with songdog's mom, our children - Jonathan, Patrick, kissed_a_drunk,zacks, our nephews croosa, mr_t00by, our beautiful nieces blondie1026 and i_am_a_hannah and their dad. We will also be joined by son Patrick's girlfriend musimel and by ( Read more... )