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A dear friend just brought to my attention a rather disturbing problem with the post about subscribing to my blog.
Apparently, if you clicked the button on the post, it brought you to a site with a band name that would be, well, icky.
So, I apologize if you were one of those victims. Button erased.
Lesson learned: [...]

Time outs for birthday shout-outs for my oldest. Tomorrow. . .Rubrics R Us

Transform one word into another by changing a single letter in each step, so that each link in the chain is a valid word. For example, to change MORE into LESS with 3 links: MORE, lore, lose, loss, LESS
3 links :
Put MILK into PAIL
WELL  into DONE
Change MICE into RATS
Find CAMP SITE

4 links
Put INK [...]

DAY 4.5 DAYTONA UPDATE: SATURDAY AND SUNDAY
Saturday I read 300 essays; Sunday I read 350.

Remember that first blog I wrote expecting a reference about Indiana Jones? Got it today. Several times.
Saturday night, David Rakoff, author and essayist, read excerpts from his books, and then answered questions. Someone asked him about his writing routine. He said [...]

VIEWZI
YOU HAVE TO SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT! Thanks to Angela Maiers for the heads up on this.

DAY 2.5: DAYTONA AP REPORT
So far, I’ve read around 275 essays since yesterday afternoon.
Here’s what I learned from essays today:
1. Syntax can be: impressive, captivating
2. Diction can be: heavy, audacious, demanding, aggressive
3. Hyperboles are available in small amounts, but rhetorical questions are available in a handful.
4. Repetition is repeating itself throughout the passage; in fact, [...]

Famous Failures

This blog is on the website set up by the Chapman family in memory of Maria.
StevenCurtisChapman.com: Video Blog 14: Dishwashin Dad

MARIA SUE CHAPMAN, DAUGHTER OF STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN, DIES IN ACCIDENT AT FAMILY HOME
NASHVILLE, TN…5/21/08… At approximately 5pm on the afternoon of Wednesday May 21st, Maria Sue Chapman, 5 years old and the youngest daughter [...]

DISCLAIMER: The following post, due to its scandalous and heinous material, may induce nightmares of roly-poly proportions. If you are lactose-intolerant, a decaff zealot, or own stock in Starbucks, please read at your own risk.
As reported by Courtney Hazlett of msnbc.com’s The Scoop:
De facto Starbucks spokes-twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen might have a scandal on their hands. [...]

FIRST PAST THE POST

Six horses were entered in the 2.30 at Derbyville today. Three of the horses
were fillies and three were colts (one of which was Mister Magic). Can you
match the horses and riders and work out where each horse finished?

1. The horse ridden by Kelly didn’t finish last. The one ridden by O’Shea

wasn’t first but [...]

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AMY WALLACE…….HEALING PROMISES
Facing a new threat
When FBI Agent Clint Rollins takes a bullet during a standoff, it might just save his life. But not even the ugly things he’s seen during his years working in the Crimes Against Children Unit could prepare him for the overwhelming powerlessness of hospital tests revealing an unexpected diagnosis. [...]

A Slightly Harder Word Game 
Three in One

 
Words are sometimes composed of other words. The word dustbin consists of dust plus bin, while together may appear to include three separate words: to, get and her. To reverse the process, which word can be made out of the letters in the three words moor, root, and tow? [...]

So,  Hillary, you were saying?

 Jane Kirkpatrick is the best-selling author of two nonfiction books and fourteen historical novels, including the popular Kinship and Courage series. Her award-winning writing has appeared in more than fifty publications, including Sports Afield and Decision.
She’s won the coveted Western Heritage Wrangler Award, an honor shared by such writers as Larry McMurtry and Barbara Kingsolver. [...]

You just have to love a company that not only loves older women, but designs a contest to let your inner Dynamo shine. All you have to do is grab your two fun and funky fabulous equally 40+ friends (no, you cannot add their ages to arrive at the magic number), and enter the contest. [...]