Maybe it’s because I’m still very tired, but I couldn’t help get the song, “Pop goes the weasel” out of my head when I saw this website that sells television stands that the flat screen television can be lowered into. They are called by some a pop up tv, and I could just imagine [...]

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If you ask my 14 year old, she’ll tell you that one of her main complaints is that boys at her school are allowed to wear any kind of tie, including silk ties but that for a girl to wear one is considered in violation of the dress code. Which she has a problem [...]

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We have focused at times on the levees in New Orleans but the Netherlands faces the same exact scenario and in this Wired article the focus is on what can be done there to prevent widespread damage from what is known as a 10,000 year flood. I found it to be a very interesting [...]

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When my children were little there was a book I remember reading called “The Family Bed” and there were many a night when one or more of my children ventured into sleep with me. Now that my bunch is older, that does not happen at night anymore but during the day or the early [...]

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In going through the newsites that I enjoy reading today I came across this article, written by Michael Brooks at first I wondered if it was the Michael Brooks I know from here in Toledo. It’s not clear if it is the same Michael Brooks or not. I’m still left to wonder though [...]

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I’ve been half heartedly keeping track of which item I’m receiving the most emails about the past few weeks. It’s been interesting to watch the patterns as it does not always include the same product line. At times it’s phishing attempts from “banks” that I know I don’t have accounts with, or male [...]

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This doesn’t qualify as a classic for a true flashback moment, but I can say it makes me flashback to my recent visit with my daughter. Listening to the song it really hit home to me for what I was experiencing at the time. So if you have never heard, “Shattered” then [...]

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Since we have a household that includes both cats and dogs, I’m very aware of the prices of pet supplies and it’s been hard to not notice the increase. One of my cats is elderly, he is approaching 18 years of age and there is only one brand of food out there that he [...]

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In Toledo it’s pouring down rain, and unfortunately my youngest daughter has to perform a musical performance in the rain. Evidently the school powers that be want these children to become sick, since if she does not attend she will be given a failing grade. Yet, here in the part of California I’m [...]

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I saw this in my news feeder and I had to head over to read it, because for me, a deep voice has never really “done it” though I admit a weakness to my husband speaking Spanish to me. That however was not the basis of the article, it was as the title states, [...]

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