“Why come my mines ain’t ringin’?”
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
Month: October 2009
One of my children used to have an imaginary friend, a rabbit named Hop-Hop Bunny, who had a brother named Hop-Hop. They were from Hop-Hop Land (I know you didn’t see that coming). We heard several Hop-Hop Bunny stories from the time our daughter was in preschool through first grade. One day we were working […]
“I ran into a girl online that I hadn’t seen since gradeschool. She asked me how I was doing. How do you sum up 50 years of your life in one sentence?” (pauses) “It sucks!”
A couple weeks ago I posted a survey asking readers what they thought my super power was; here are the results: reading minds human lie detector Encyclopedia Man – able to recall facts on anything whether relevant or not. super creativity The third one seems most accurate to me, plus the submitter helpfully included a […]
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Back in the 60s my grampa, my dad, and my uncle used to drive to Kansas City to stay in an apartment and work all week, then drive back home to southern Missouri on the weekends. Dad said when they got back to the apartment, my uncle would get out an old can and say, […]
“I hope no girls find me attractive when I’m in high school. I’m going to be a geek like my big brother; no girls try to date him.”
Yay! Heather is ditching her blog and joining MadMania. I’ve already imported all the posts from her old site, and I’ll get to work soon on setting posts to display the author so as to minimize confusion.
verb, adjective; to face a chair toward a wall and/or turn its back to a person. Example: “She’s pickle-faced her chair and won’t come out.” The word, its usage, and the example I just used came to me in a dream last night. After some research I have found out that it is actually a […]
When I was seven and my brother was four we went with my Dad and his friend Roy on a float trip. I don’t remember the river, but I do remember a lot of things about the trip. One thing was at one point in the river, over to the side, there was this circle […]