Tag: life
member name: anna g. vanwinkle
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March 09, 2007 03:50 PM EST --
After my earlier incident with Bob the Beta Fish which has some gather friends insinuating I'm a murderer and a killer -- I realized I've done a lot of things today when Nobody was Looking. I feel . . .
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April 02, 2006 07:00 AM EDT --
The woman who walks out our front door in the morning and the person who crawls out of my bed? don't even look related. The woman who crawls out of my bed in the mornings . . .
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March 04, 2006 06:38 PM EST --
How to Sneeze Like a Woman:
Pieces is parts, parts is pieces. This is all well and good if you happen to be a Chicken McNugget. . . .
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May 18, 2006 12:04 PM EDT --
I don't know why he responds the way he does.
He knows I'm not after him.
I don't want him.
I don't need him.
If I did need him, I'd call. He'd come. It might take some coaxing, . . .
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June 11, 2006 12:05 AM EDT --
This week I was in a store and caught off guard by a mother and her about 8 year old daughter in the midst of a public display of fit throwing and abuse.
The child cried and rubbed her . . .
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March 06, 2007 11:36 AM EST --
(I wrote this song driving home from the morning school run. If you can imagine, without the music, a coffee house song on Sirius 30? it sounds like one of those. I played it for the boy . . .
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August 28, 2007 08:41 AM EDT --
I was looking this morning for packets of energy drink mixes with caffeine to send another gatherer, Mike B. who's deployed right now, piloting a bucket of bolts we fondly call the Herk.
Along my . . .
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February 04, 2008 05:51 PM EST --
Dear Abby,
Today I was shocked to see that my Sister In Law is now hawking gifts my recently deceased mother gave to her on E-Bay. I've been angry before, but this just takes the cake and the plate . . .
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March 21, 2008 01:45 PM EDT --
The day started normally. Almost.
Went to get dressed and what did I find?
A BLOODSUCKING Tick who's head was buried deep in the skin under the panty line of my right Thigh. . . .
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March 14, 2006 11:48 PM EST --
While I take the time to feed a colony of perfectly sane feral cats - I've noticed that the wild strays are oddly free of neurotic behaviors.
This leads me to believe that our cats pick up all their . . .
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May 21, 2006 11:58 PM EDT --
The Hedgehog Song
(I would enter this into skit night for my cabin if I were still a kid going to camp every summer....let's hear it for the hedgehogs!!)
There once was a tiny hedgehog,
who climbed . . .
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June 12, 2006 06:18 PM EDT --
...."no, no, no. You put her shoes on before her clothes. That's not the way to dress a Barbie. Don't you know anything?"
"But I just wanted to keep playing."
"Well, . . .
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December 28, 2006 03:52 PM EST --
1. Always wear panties.
2.Lace does not a dress make.
3. When wearing a lace dress to mom's birthday party, wear panties.
4. If not wearing panties, don't wear minis.
5. If we must wear minis . . .
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June 23, 2008 10:56 AM EDT --
I headed South last Monday, down to Alabama to close out my parent's house. It's a 550 mile drive, but I took my time getting there. I stopped to see Jack Gosset in Gadsen, the Johnsons at Lake . . .
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June 17, 2006 06:18 PM EDT --
We are digging ourselves out this time. We've been on a two year financial plan. The plan is genius and simply called: Live Without It.
Unfortunately for us, our junk makes us feel good and . . .
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March 04, 2006 12:01 AM EST --
Dear God.
Yes, Its me. Yeah, yeah I know - I'm not a team player but I was born with an affliction to being yelled at by sweaty men in pulpits as well as peeling the backs of my . . .
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December 25, 2007 04:20 AM EST --
This Christmas, there's a tree with 1700 lights on it standing 8 feet tall in my living room.
Then there's my mother, in her grave, six feet down, 550 miles away.
I'd pack up the tree . . .
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October 01, 2007 08:18 PM EDT --
From My Email on September 22nd, 2007
Dear Friends and Family,
A lot has happened in a short period of time. My mother went in for bypass surgery on Monday, bounced out of it perfectly . . .
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March 14, 2006 11:14 PM EST --
They say that Cat's have much smaller heads than dogs, but what matters is what's between the ears. I don't know. For such sophisticated creatures, I find my pride of housecats very easy to . . .
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March 09, 2007 01:25 PM EST --
Well, we thought it was a good idea at the time. "Hey, Let's get a beta fish and name it Bob!"
He lasted a total of FIVE days.
If I crunch the numbers, between his glass tank . . .
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