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Calling all of my wonderful, do-good friends!

My coworker Tony has a brother who’s at Fort Knox — he just started Basic Training last Friday.  Tony is sending him words of encouragement, praise for serving, that sort of thing — and he is sending it on a card in a blue envelope.
Apparently, the more blue envelopes one receives, the more phone privileges [...]

For my Rhode Island friends..

Apparently a movie was released in 2008 called Side By Each that takes place in (of course) Rhode Island.
 I found this because I was telling a coworker about the quaint colloquialisms of the predominantly French-Canadian residents in Woonsocket, and lo and behold, a movie
What’s amusing to me most is that the main character’s name is [...]

Writing exercise. And a fun one!

Write a 26-line poem using all the letters of the alphabet, where the first line starts with the letter “A,” the second “B,” the third “C,” etc., culminating with the final line starting with “Z.”
Blind Date

“Always wear clean, normal underwear,” my mother says. And yet
Before I leave my home, the last thing on my mind [...]

My History with Dogs

Having just finished watching ‘Marley and Me’, I feel compelled now to wax reminiscent about my own dog experiences.  There haven’t been many, and there has so far only been one dog that crept into my heart in any manner that might be comparable to Marley and the Grogans.  He was the last dog I [...]