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A Step Ahead or Playing Games?

Since I started the week on an educational bent, I thought I’d stick to that. Because over the weekend, 60 Minutes did a segment on a new trend known as “redshirting“. Wikipedia defines redshirting as: “… the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten of age-eligible children in order to allow extra time for socioemotional, intellectual, [...]

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Higher and Higher Education

This is going to turn into a rant. I have no doubt about it. I’ve been winding up for a couple of weeks, so seriously … if you don’t want to read about my melt down over the American college system, you should just walk away now. You see, my son, Little Boy Blue, is [...]

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Plugged In = Tuned Out?

I love all the new technology. Weeellll, not all of it. Okay, probably not most of it. I’m what you call a techno-idiot and I resist upgrading or downloading anything until the device has wires hanging or so many error messages that I can’t make it function. But my children? Totally in love with anything [...]

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The Little Things

It seems this discussion comes up every now and again. The whole “where have manners gone?” situations that just make me scratch my head. This particular one has been sparked by my own son. I will preface this by saying he wasn’t one of those teens who invited friends over. We didn’t have many people [...]

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Blushing Research

As any of you who have visited here before know, I’m VERY visual. When I’m writing I have pictures of my hero and heroine open in a document. I’ve done searches for scenes whether it’s an alley or a beautiful hotel suite. I need to see it to describe it. Okay, so I’m writing a [...]

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Love … Right Down to the Letter

When I was a kid my mother sat at her desk several mornings a week and penned letters to my grandmothers. She probably had several other friends that she also corresponded with on a regular basis. When she was bent over her pad of paper, we knew not to disturb her unless there were bones. [...]

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Today it’s Personal

I don’t do this very often, but I’m feeling a rant coming on. A good old fashioned stomp-my-feet-hold-my-breath-shake-my-fists kind of rant. And I’ll tell you now, it has nothing to do with writing or publishing. It’s about colleges and their overinflated, insanely expensive tuition bills. Seriously, I just need to spew. Feel free to run [...]

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A Prom 13

Since I’m on vacation I decided to resurrect some of my favorite posts. This is a thirteen list of things that went wrong at Little Boy Blue’s prom. He’s no longer dating this young lady who has come to be known in our family as “dead horse girl”. Please, read on and you will understand [...]

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Thirteen Used Car Buyer Tips

  Last summer Little Boy Blue was looking for a car. It was a long process and needless to say the learning curve was steep. This thirteen originally ran back in August of 2008, but it still cracks me up. And since I’m in the middle of a visit from Beautiful Girl, diligently finishing my [...]

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A Little Advice From Mom …

So tomorrow Little Boy Blue heads out to college. I am REALLY happy and excited for him. I absolutely loved college. I still have friends from both colleges I attended and that was alot of  too many to mention more than a couple of years ago. Anyway, we’ve been packing up his clothes and reorganizing his room and since this [...]

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