Help with Homework!!! I spent the afternoon cleaning up the last of this @#($)% essay (Toni Morrison, I'm hoping that one day I will again be able to read your work without screaming), and decided on a whim to send it off to kid#1 the English geek/ college...

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A thousand versions of the song that just won't quit

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Went on a little roadtrip yesterday afternoon with my mother--I just had to escape Toni Morrison for awhile, and Mom is usually ready to go anywhere if she doesn't have to do the driving. We don't get to hang out enough, so sometimes these little trips...

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I agree with his conclusions on the effect of this years' mid-terms, but I still don't think Hillary could take Minnewisowa. Love that name, by the way! The 'cluster states' and 2008 - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper The 2008...

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Here I am, parked at the dining room table, working on Toni Morrison. I took a break to refill the coffee cup, and looked at a couple of favorite sites. One of them contained a link to the Eagle Cam, which is a webcam focused on an eagle's nest in British...

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Yesterday...temps in the 70's and sunshine after a bit of rain in the morning. I wore shorts and a tank top for my bike ride. Got a little (welcome) sun on the legs. :-) Today....the temp is 32 degrees and we are in the midst of an ice-and-sleet storm....

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I just know I am going to screw up the explanation of this, but here goes: There's this Dutch guy who teaches himself to sing LedZep's "Stairway to Heaven" backwards phonetically. This is the link to that video on YouTube. Now, for the confusing part....

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Guys. Let's dispense with delicacy here. You know how there are certain times of the month when the little lady is, shall we say, slightly grumpier and puffier than usual? Do you remember the last time she threw a (full) coffee cup at you when you commented...

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(As I was reading, the Joe Cocker version of the song came on the sat, therefore the headline. Sorry.) Ahmadinejad's Letter to Bush It's an interesting read. We get history lessons, international relations lessons, philosophy and religion. It's a rambling...

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