Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
… can’t be done. That’s why you are so late hearing from me. The hotel net crashed this morning and it took Oceanic Time Warner a couple of hours to get it back online. During that time Ella and I went out for breakfast (Amoeba is at work) and took [...]
I was in the soap isle of the grocery store. A mother with a toddler in her cart passed me and went around the end of the isle to the frozen section. I heard the toddler exclaim, “Oh! I wants dat!” I knew from experience that they were standing in [...]
I recently tripped across Puget Sound with an interesting assortment of travel companions. Such is the joy of public conveyance. I shared my voyage with about 35 pre-teens and their chaperons, and an assortment of other travelers that included a mother with two toddlers under the age of five. The [...]
Bits: I wrote this piece for Dr. John’s dragon story contest. It didn’t win (Margaret’s did), but I thought you might enjoy it just the same. I’m a school teacher well respected in my community and not given to flights of fancy, but I swear, my newest student, Jimmy, is [...]
There is no end to some people’s stupidity. I was in Wal-Mart tonight listening to two girls who were searching for diet water. One of them was complaining because none of it came unflavored. Hello? [...]