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Beth gave us a job to write with short words. I could do this but yawn. I like short and long words, not just these. This needs to be worth a read as well as a skill. The joy of a good read is to choose the best words. When all of these have to be short, one can't read great work. This prompt has made me write a drab post.
Just face it, this post is . . .
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
It means "something to say when you have nothing to say." That fits.
When it comes to scents, there are those that whisper while others shout––and there are even shouts that come in whispers. If you're tilting your head and wrinkling your brow trying to determine how a shouting scent whispers, let me clarify. A person, who I will not name to save public humiliation, has taken to whispering, "I farted" whenever he passes gas in my presence. Embarrass him? Probably not because some folks of the male species take pride in the bad ones.
Since this post is called "Whispers", not shouts, let me mention a wonderful whispering scent. My daughter sells BeautiControl, and I love the fragrance in the air after she demonstrates her products. The Dark Brown Sugar holiday scent is amazing!
When the family got together for Thanksgiving, Judy gave her aunts and me a special spa session, complete with the Tight Firm and Fill Instant Face Lift cream. I wish I'd taken a picture of my wrinkle-faced sister before and after. With one treatment, her frown lines practically disappeared. I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it with my own eyes. As a result, I bought some BeautiControl.
It's almost December, so please visit Judy's website for your holiday shopping. You've got to buy gifts anyway, so you might as well get them from a 22 year-old who's trying to save money to visit her long distance boyfriend. Pleeeeease. She'll be miserable if she doesn't make enough money for a plane ticket.
You may order from Judy by visiting her website atwww.beautipage.com/judylansky. Anyone who makes a purchase from Judy ROCKS!
My niece's goofy husband brought a fun, free app to our Thanksgiving week-end and here are the results. No one was safe around Josh and everyone else who went for the download.
Taking a nap had it's consequences.
Sitting at a Thanksgiving dinner table can also be dangerous.
I wasn't even safe visiting with my family.
In case you're wondering, the app is called "Action Movie" and is available for free at the Apple App store.
Here it is another year of Thanksgiving family togetherness
and stories of do you remember when? Being the youngest in my family, it’s
quite possible that there are more stories about me than anyone else. It’s not that
I caused the most mischief, but rather, there were more sibs around to catch me
at it. Not to mention that someone was always ready to set up the gullible
little sister to carry out evil plans.
I grew up in a small St. Louis neighborhood with Leonard
Slatkin, the famous symphony conductor, right next door. When his face appeared
on the cover of our new phone book, he-who-must-not-be-named sent me on a
mission to get Mr. Slatkin’s autograph. How was I to know the great
conductor would open his door with only a towel around his waist? Furthermore,
I was too young to realize how gauche it was to ask him for his autograph in
that situation. Being a good sport, Mr. Slatkin autographed my phone book and
off I went only to be reminded of my faux pas at Thanksgiving get togethers
forty years later.
I didn’t need eyeglasses to see the obvious during my childhood.
Each member of my family wore a pair of specs while I enjoyed perfect vision.
Not anymore. I blame it on childbirth because that’s when my vision went south.
This Thanksgiving when my sister brings her new boyfriend to the family meal, I
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This week brought the passing of my husband's uncle, who not only was the clothier of the king, but also funny enough to be memorialized on a silly Sunday. Uncle Bernard marched to the beat of his own band as he put on his relaxed accent. He could speak to the homeless man on the street or Katie Couric with equal comfort.
Bernard Lansky, a master sales person, once called his son and told him to come to the store because he'd just sold the son's car. In a New York restaurant, Bernard didn't see anything he liked on the menu, so he asked the waiter for a peanut butter sandwich. The waiter said, "We don't have any peanut butter."
In which Bernard replied, "Run down to the 7-Eleven and get some."
With mouth dropping the waiter said, "I could get fired.
Bernard pulled out a huge wad of cash, gave it to the waiter, and said, "You now work for me."
Today marks the book launch of Small Portions by Dieter Moitzi. “Small
Portions” is a story that comes in… small portions. In precisely 111
little parts – AND a recipe. To explore the many facets of modern life,
the author has chosen the literary form of vignettes, those short
impressionistic scenes that focus on one moment or give a trenchant
impression about a character, idea, setting, object.
Dieter Moitzi
tells his own story in poignant scenes that vary from a snapshot of his
christening in the early 70s to his father’s death in a skiing accident
at the beginning of the 2000s. It’s small things he talks about, those
many small things that compose a life – his life. He recalls the painful
process of coming out of the closet, relates in funny detail the first
encounters and love stories of his happy-go-lucky twenties, delves with
analytical distance into aspects and turning points of two long-time
relationships. He takes you by the hand and guides you through the
streets of Paris, the city he lives in. He writes about food and the
internet and his travel experiences in Greece, Morocco, Vienna, Tunisia,
London…
In just so many carefully chosen words, sometimes poetic,
sometimes blunt, but always with a good deal of wry and self-deprecating
humour, the author succeeds in creating little universes with each
story. Each one stands alone, yet when you link them together, another
story takes shape. The story of a life, the sketch of a person, the
mirror of a time. Our time.
I met Dieter Moitzi in the Blogesphere, where he has been a frequent visitor to my blog. Born in
1972 in Austria, Dieter Moitzi moved to Paris, France, in the early
1990s. He is working as a graphic designer and writing in his spare
time, mainly in English. He loves to share his passion for words, which
is the reason why he has launched a literature blog in 2010. Ever since,
he has published a collection of poems (“and somewhere under”) as well
as a collection of short stories (“Miss Otis regrets”), both available
on amazon. Moreover, his poetry has been published in the “Vine Leaves
Literary Journal” in 2012. He is currently working on two novels that he
hopes to publish in 2013. Congrats to Dieter on his new book! You may visit him at http://dietermoitzi.blogspot.com/
There was a time in grade school when I considered myself to be good at math. To further my beliefs, we'd take achievement tests where I consistently scored higher in Math than Reading or Language Arts. In fact, I did so well, my dad got the idea that I was ready for Algebra in seventh grade, even though some smart teachers thought otherwise. Thus began my numbers demise. I am living proof that there are few things worse than pushing a kid into a class in which he or she is not ready.
Math fits perfectly into Piaget's psychological theories. Have you ever tried to convince a toddler that a fat wide glass has more juice in it than the tall skinny one? If you succeeded, you're probably the first because there is no way most toddlers can grasp that concept, as there was no way twelve year old me was going to 'get' Algebra. It has nothing to do with intelligence, and everything to do with emotional maturity. I just wasn't there yet.
As a result of being pushed beyond my math readiness, I struggled with math throughout high school. Come college, I enrolled in a required Freshman math class. I took one look at my text and horrible memories of struggling through this stuff terrorize me. As a result, I made the mistake of signing up pass/fail for the easiest class of my college career. The difference? Come college, I was ready for this stuff!
As an adult, teaching math is probably my greatest strength because now, not only do I understand numbers, but I think I have good insight as to why some kids don't. Also, I've seen how my number talented son had no trouble securing a job post college. He used to joke with a friend about how he could add but couldn't read and his friend could read but couldn't add. In hindsight, I'm glad Daniel could add.
Although my youngest did not consider herself to be a mathematician, with her friends, they created a great T-shirt idea. Well the adults in charge didn't think so because it never became a shirt. It read something like this: Holy shift! Look at that assymptote on that mother function. IB. We have class.
I'm thrilled to hear another Abe Lincoln movie, directed by Stephen Spielberg and starring Daniel Day Louis and Sally Field, is coming to theaters this week. Lincoln has always been one of my favorite presidents not just because of the Emancipation Proclamation but also his great wit that most people don't even know about. Last January, I posted funny anecdotes about him. History: Abe Lincoln was Funny
Here are some jokes coined by Lincoln himself.
* It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
* When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
* If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
* Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
* Whatever you are, be a good one.
* He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I ever met.
* When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, its best to let him run.
* You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of
the time.
* The man who murdered his parents, then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
* Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
I love soup. It's the comfort food I like to snuggle up to on a cold winter night. Although summer gazpacho also flames my jets! Love of soup might even be genetic since my daughters
love soup too. When Judy was in third grade, she had an assignment to
make a map of her own city. Soup City contained fabulous places such as Chicken Noodle Lane and Beef Noodle Boulevard.
What movie is this photo from?
While we're still on the soup topic, check out my soup scene from my third manuscript Being Bompsy Carleffa.
Gil placed tomato-base soup in front of each of us. When I blew and sipped it off my spoon, I was shocked. Cold soup?All this money, and these people couldn’t heat the soup.
“Do you like the gazpacho?” Fiso asked.
I dropped my spoon on the table. Why would he mention the Gestapo? What
was he, a modern day Nazi? Sure, doesn’t everyone like murderers? Sick. This guy’s really sick!
When I was a kid, we dashed to the candy store, paid our nickels, and got packs of Wacky Packages. I had a thick stack of stickers after collecting for awhile, but somehow they've disappeared over the years. I wish I still had them because these vintage cards are going for several dollars a piece on Ebay. Some for a several lot of dollars.
Beanball
Drowny
It's funny to reflect on the goofy topics that appeal to kids. At my ten year high school reunion, my grade school classmates and I reminisced about how easy it was to make our sixth grade selves laugh. All we had to do was whisper, "Underwear," and everyone within hearing distance would laugh so hard they'd have to cross legs to keep from peeing.
Why don't these things make us laugh anymore? Adults take life too seriously.
Does anyone else remember these?
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GBE2's weekly blogging topic is Patriotism while Theme Thursday is all about storms.
“Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the
natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage,
for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men
or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its
romance.”
―
Theodore Roosevelt
The great Republican president Teddy Roosevelt would be rolling over in his grave if aware of the actions of the current GOP that have caused 99%ers to storm to the streets in protest.
Our lands are in jeopardy, not only from hurricanes such as Sandy, but also from selfish or greedy men.
The Koch brothers have funded campaigns endorsing candidates who will abolish corporate regulations to enable Charles and David Koch to save money by not having to abide by government regulations. They've filled super pacts with unlimited funds for their own greed, while stripping areas surrounding their polluting plants of clean air and waters.
At the same time, the Koch brothers have pumped millions of dollars into ads to frighten Americans into believing that environmental regulations will cost us jobs. What's scary is the number of people who support government deregulation because of Koch sponsored ads. Oh, yes, a storm is coming if the Koch brothers get their way and our environment crumbles. I, for one, do not wish to give up the beauty of my country so that the Koch brothers can save money by having no regulations as they dump oil into our rivers.
To learn more about the Koch brothers, please watch this documentary. I know it's long, but it is also informative and well worth your time.
Since this post is called "Whispers", not shouts, let me mention a wonderful whispering scent. My daughter sells BeautiControl, and I love the fragrance in the air after she demonstrates her products. The Dark Brown Sugar holiday scent is amazing!
I met Dieter Moitzi in the Blogesphere, where he has been a frequent visitor to my blog. Born in
1972 in Austria, Dieter Moitzi moved to Paris, France, in the early
1990s. He is working as a graphic designer and writing in his spare
time, mainly in English. He loves to share his passion for words, which
is the reason why he has launched a literature blog in 2010. Ever since,
he has published a collection of poems (“and somewhere under”) as well
as a collection of short stories (“Miss Otis regrets”), both available
on amazon. Moreover, his poetry has been published in the “Vine Leaves
Literary Journal” in 2012. He is currently working on two novels that he
hopes to publish in 2013. Congrats to Dieter on his new book! You may visit him at http://dietermoitzi.blogspot.com/
Math fits perfectly into Piaget's psychological theories. Have you ever tried to convince a toddler that a fat wide glass has more juice in it than the tall skinny one? If you succeeded, you're probably the first because there is no way most toddlers can grasp that concept, as there was no way twelve year old me was going to 'get' Algebra. It has nothing to do with intelligence, and everything to do with emotional maturity. I just wasn't there yet.
As an adult, teaching math is probably my greatest strength because now, not only do I understand numbers, but I think I have good insight as to why some kids don't. Also, I've seen how my number talented son had no trouble securing a job post college. He used to joke with a friend about how he could add but couldn't read and his friend could read but couldn't add. In hindsight, I'm glad Daniel could add.
The Koch brothers have funded campaigns endorsing candidates who will abolish corporate regulations to enable Charles and David Koch to save money by not having to abide by government regulations. They've filled super pacts with unlimited funds for their own greed, while stripping areas surrounding their polluting plants of clean air and waters.
