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Recap – S1E10 “Ring Finger”
It getting more difficult for Jackie to pretend that all is well in her life. On the way to one of her trysts with Eddie she almost forgot to take off her wedding band until prompted by O’Hara who earlier had apologized for her gaff (in Jackie’s over-reactionary opinion) and [...]

Siblings, in-laws or close friends might be the source of a current drama that begs for your involvement. However, if the circumstances are peripheral to you, it may be best to keep them that way. Your worry over something that doesn’t directly concern you could be motivated by your own unresolved issues. It’s best not [...]

You know why I like this one? It caught me off guard. I read it, then paused and thought What?! and then read it again. Upon second reading I thought it really strange and possibly unhealthful. I also thought “yuck” and “sick.” I hope there are not too many people who share this secret though [...]

What criteria do you feel makes a good QotD?
A good Question of the Day should open up the possibilities of an answer that reveals something about me that I might not have thought to write about and in reading other’s answers I’ll be enlightened about them as well.
I need to be able to relate to [...]

Always at Maple Lake though depending if it’s every other year sometimes only for Labour Day weekend or maybe a week when we have big trips (Disneyland, D.C.) in the spring or summer or, like this year, much longer.
I live in a condo, we have a pool which I almost no one [...]

Go to Disneyland. I’m serious!
I’ve had a plan to meet up with out-of-state friends at Thanksgiving in California with part of my family’s time spent in the Land of the Mouse. We go every two years. However, my calculations were based on what I was earning at the time I made the decision. Due to [...]

 
George Carlin first came to my attention when he got himself arrested for uttering the “The Seven Dirty Words You Can Never Say On Television” in the mid 1970’s, when he performed in Milwaukee WI. Until one of my friends bought his comedy album (which some stores refused to carry) with the routine on it [...]

Every new “Today” seems more anxious than ever. Do you find more solace in “Yesterday” or “Tomorrow”? Why?
Solace: comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort.
Find solace in yesterday? No. Tomorrow? Tomorrow is probably what I need solace from, lol.
Today is as anxious as I allow it to be. It’s an old-fashioned [...]

My favourite Post Secret each week tends to be one of the ones that tickles my funny bone.
This week it was not one of the funny ones.
The postcard to Frank that grabbed me most this week was one that hit dead-center home. (Read at left.)
Many years ago I fell in love with a man who [...]

Post Secret was offline (down) before my offline trip of 5 days so I am really behind. I’ll make a sincere effort to catch up. Don’t forget to go to the “search” box on this page for more “Post Secrets.”
This Post Secret is priceless. It articulates so many feelings I have as someone that shoots [...]

 

All day today, I’ve had a nagging feeling that there was some “occasion” this month of May that I was forgetting. I did a mental check and Mother’s Day popped into my mind. I scratched that. I remembered that May 10 was the anniversary of my first marriage (it was also Mother’s Day that year) [...]

My favourite
Post Secret postcard this week~ Special “purge your bad-Mom,”/ bad karma edition.
Warning: Post Secret can be angsty; this week it’s extra angsty.
There were a number of really interesting and provocative cards just in time for Mother’s Day-(every year–pub. on Sundays)!
In this postcard, I especially like the sentiment expressed as, “How much time does forgiveness [...]

 
Just checked my gmail–there are 200 emails I need to attend to. Probably 20 I can delete right away–the rest are real.
I’m really happy that I sent out the virtual Mother’s Day cards as some of the recipients were really touched. I tried to pick the themes that best suited each woman, then wrote a [...]

My 20-year-old self. She needed to have a good talking to.

Cindy, Age 20, Maple Lake, Ontario
Seriously, I’m not desirous of going to back to do things differently but it would be interesting to compare where my line of thinking was going compared with today. In some ways “we” seem like completely [...]

Since I keep a number of blogs I have about as many reasons for blogging so to simplify, I’ll keep my answer to the most personal one.
The reason I blog is because I like to express myself. I’ve been doing a fairly good job of that even before I could write. I am intrigued [...]

What personality trait has gotten you in the most trouble? 

I’m too blunt.
People ask for an opinion and then sometimes they aren’t happy with the answer. Sorry, you asked!  It’s OK to just tell me I’m wrong.
I’m very honest* I suppose, to a fault.
So I forget to “pretty up” the phrasing of something and tick people off.
Or [...]

Khaled Desouki
“Everyone who wears shoes walks wrong,” says Adam Sternbergh, who wrote about shoes and human feet for New York magazine. AFP/Getty Images
I love the reasoning behind why we started to wear high heels–to avoid one another’s excrement!
My grandmother always encouraged us to go barefoot. Her son–my Dad– taught me to do the same though [...]

Yes, the weather was outstanding this weekend past and it continues to be now that the official work week has started.
I don’t have an “official” work week and at first I saw that as a bonus.
Lately though I’ve realized how much I work online and how little I’ve tending to things offline. Yesterday, I “forced” [...]

Wow.
Last night, just putting together onto a work days off grid for this summer for spouse, factoring in son’s Driver’s Education at the high school for the first half of summer ($350, which is actually less than what I thought the good teachers of this District would work for) and younger son’s monthly blood test [...]

 
Great news! Spouse finally finished our income taxes last night and we get a refund!
Also, he informed me that the silly Economic Stimulus Act 2008 “rebate” is going to really help towards vacation, as well as reminding me that his work bonus is being distributed in a month. In order of size we have Geo. [...]

 This is my favourite Post Secret  postcard from this week:

It took me a moment to “get it” but when I did, it made me laugh.
I live with three males and I have no doubt that in a pinch a scenario like this is quite possible.
In other “news,” I got drilled today. My tooth did anyway, [...]

Wow!
Today has been exhilarating!
I believe it began last night at the Bruce Springsteen show and continued through today with a conference call with a high-profile developer for a high profile blogging system for which I’m on a consumer panel.
I suppose because I work on my own so much that it just feels great to collaborate [...]

Sometime in the wee hours of this morning Google crawled this website manually I believe, and removed it’s Google PageRank of “3″ and dropped it to ZERO.
Since I’ve read of thousands of bloggers that this has happened to–and it happened to me as well on another blog of mine back in November, 2007, I don’t [...]

It’s a bright and temperate day– makes me wants to pick up my book, “The Diana Chronicles” and take it with me out back, have a seat on one of the deck chairs and start my second hundred pages in it.
Like a lot of people, I kept an interest in Diana (Official Royal’s Site) [...]

Woo-hoo!
I just took my first top-down ride this year!!!
The weather here in the Northwest of Chicago suburbs is superb.
Sunny and mild and I didn’t have to go to Florida or :cough: Arizona :cough: to enjoy it.
The upside to top down motoring in this Great Lakes region is that there is only about 4 months of [...]