TabbyCat

Mine too. I am planning my daughter's wedding along with her. She's getting married in April. It's a special time for us, and I'm sad for her daughter, and for her. My daughter has a wedding planner (for which I am very thankful), but she includes me in every choice. It's such a memorable time for both of us.

Because there's nothing more enjoyable than eating vast amounts of food and then barfing them up to be thin.

You're such a dear. I believed I could fly. No, really. Maybe because my name is Robin? I don't know...but I do remember believing I could fly. And I also thought I must have been adopted. I was the second child in our family. My older brother (less than two years) had hundreds of pictures in our parents' albums...I had like, five. I was much older before I learned and understood that, when I was born, my parents got a movie camera. When we moved to California for my Dad to work on getting his Ph.D, someone broke into our car during the move and stole not only the camera but a

Sure enough, it was the sister thing. I know it's certainly impacted me.

Me either.

Oprah has a half-sister. (Click to read.)

Ya think?

CNN has no corner on the market of bad journalism? You're assertion would be credible if...well...IT WAS CREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GMAFB

We live in a subdivision and we are the pet parents of three small dogs (a Chihuahua, a Corgi, and a small mixed breed spaniel). The biggest dog in our "pack" weighs 35 lbs. We are always aware that we live around others, and will never let our dogs out to bark at times when they might disturb others. All three of our dogs are crated at night, and we let them all out in the morning and whenever they need their potty breaks. We have neighbors who have neglected dogs they leave outside, in a pen or chained to a tree, 24/7. We are fortunate enough that none of these folks are near us.

SOMEONE help me here... WHAT is the definition of "game"?

KINKY!!!

I know. Reading isn't busy work. It's education in action. I wouldn't want your job, but I respect you for doing it.

I think it's sad.

YOJI!!! I'm sorry...I watch in the beginning for the train wrecks. Yoji is like a train wreck and a tsunami all in one!

ASSIGN THEM READING!!!!

Reading does this as well. As a writing teacher, I rarely if ever met a good writer that wasn't also a good and practiced reader. Memorizing the sequence of letters is rote memorization. Understanding words in context is LEARNING.

And you're right, too. I have taught. I have assigned "busy work," and knew it was needed. But it IS frustrating when the cookie-cutter method of education is applied to everyone in a classroom. And it makes things much harder than they need to be or ever should be for those who don't necessarily need it. However, I approached it with my kids as another learning experience--we all have to do the "busy work," even if we're at the "top" of our professional heap. It's not all bad that kids learn that they have to follow rules to succeed, even if sometimes, the rules seem to make littl

I would be able to agree with some of what you say, but your sweeping generalizations about parents AND children got in the way. It would work if we were all just the same. We're not.

ST is cracking me up!!! "Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?"

The busy work that is essential to passing is ridiculous from some teachers in public school. BTDT. When a kid who can ace a final fails for not turning in "busy work," there's a problem with the system.

Nah, I knew what you meant. I just got along with everyone. Still do, mostly.

It's all because their mama don't dance and their daddy don't rock-n-roll.

That's sorta what I meant! They have a wide open gate so far! It NEVER ceases to amaze me, the people who truly think they can sing and are completely tone deaf.

I'm not sure this is completely fair. Or maybe it is? I had a reunion last year. I couldn't go (I chose another engagement that I wanted to be at more). I did go to the one before that...it was a bit odd. Most of the people who came were the same ones who all still lived in the town where I graduated. I had to wonder...what was the point? These were mostly people who all still saw each other pretty regularly. The one I missed last year--people came from further away, so it was a bummer because of that to miss them--but we had a reunion page on FB, so even folks (like me) who didn't make th

I wonder how long before they get jaded?