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Welcome back!I noticed this the other evening while watching The Waltons with the kids. In the episode titled The Pony Cart the Waltons get a visit from Grandpa Walton’s sister-in-law, Martha Corrine (played by Beulah Bondi).
The 90-year old Martha Corrine looks amazingly like the Emperor from the Star Wars movies. Given that Star Wars takes […]

Recently, someone posted a comment asking why I refer to my children as “Daughter Number One”, “Daughter Number Two”, and so on instead of just referring to them by name. This post is an answer to that comment.
The short answer, not to put too fine a point on it, is: my blog, my rules. I […]

Daughter Number Three has surprised me. I’ve made a comment or two on here about her disturbing interest in Alvin and The chipmunks combined with her apparent fascination with “Weird Al” Yankovic. Last night, I discovered why I’ve been hearing nothing but high-pitched singing coming from the computer in her room. She’s been making a […]

This new grandbaby is keeping us all jumping. lately she seems to have had her days and nights a little bit backwards. This means that we’ve been taking turns sleeping.
Fortunately, she seems to be getting things straightened out over the last few days, so maybe I can get back to posting here on something resembling […]

I like to think I’m reasonably fair when moderating comments. Generally, as long as it is a valid comment that tells me the commenter actually read the post, I’ll go ahead and approve it.
The names that appear on some of those comments occasionally make me laugh out loud. I understand the concept of using […]