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May I Help You?

E.B. earned his first allowance last week from my mother.  Mom’s back has been giving her trouble, so E.B. has been “helping” her pick up things around her home and be an extra set of hands and feet for her.  He did this all week not expecting a View Post

Free & Cheap Kindle Books

kindle Since downloading the Kindle to my Windows phone and home computer, I've found a lot of places on the internet that list Kindle books free and cheap, but I don't have hours to thoroughly look over these websites to find what interests me.  View Post

Amazing Ice Cream Trucks

Obscene amounts of ice cream are being consumed in our house this summer.  We occasionally buy from the local ice cream truck, however, that truck doesn’t even compare to some of the amazing ice cream trucks I’ve run across on the web. A View Post

A Hot Mess

We've reached that point during the summer in the Mississippi Delta where it's unmercifully hot. 100 degrees in the shade at 6 PM and the heat index is anywhere from 105-115 degrees. All you can do on those kinds of days is stay indoors, stay cool, View Post

Up All Night-Sleep All Day

Clyde (the white cat) has to wake me up at least twice during each night to be fed.  Why don’t I just shut the bedroom door?  Because when I do shut the door and lock it he throws his weight on it over and over so annoyingly that it’s just View Post

Vegetable Chicken and Rice Casserole

My mom is a whiz at improvisation. The other night she was making chicken and rice casserole for dinner and realized she didn't have any onion soup mix for it. Instead of making a special trip to the store or nixing the casserole altogether, she View Post

Extreme Couponing Causes Store Backlash/Policy Changes

I'm sure many of you are familiar with TLC's hit show Extreme Couponing, which features ordinary consumers getting the most bang for their buck by buying tons of groceries and paying little or nothing by using coupons.  If you are a couponer, you View Post

The Young Man and The Sea

“The Sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” --Jacques Cousteau View Post

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