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puttin' on the ritz in moscow (culture / dance / )

via Puttin' on the Ritz in Moscow Hundreds of dancers joined together in Moscow on 26.02.2012 to perform together a great flashmob of Puttin' on the Ritz ... read more

This New Jersey teen has made a name for himself reuniting hundreds of family members with his lightning-quick internet searches and online clues. ... read more

just 'cuz you cut off its head... (life / health / )

... don't assume it's harmless. Chef dies after spitting cobra he was cooking bit him on the hand ... 20 minutes after he had cut its head off. See Chef-dies-spitting-cobra-cooking ... read more

Sofia Adamson - Addiction creates a host of negative outcomes both physically and mentally. ... read more

 sunny came home! (family / pets / )

I spent all day today wondering how I was going to tell our 5-year-old that our cat, Sunny, was no longer with us.Literally.After being awakened last night at 2:30 a.m. by the sound of a VERY close coyote, and then not finding Sunny asleep somewhere in the house l ... read more

 phone scam to make you say yes (education / news / crime)

Another phone scam to be aware of ... After the introduction comes the questions: 'can you hear me?' All of us, our natural response is to say, yes, or sure, or yes I can, said Hughes, but she says this is exactly what you do not want to do. Police say scamm ... read more

 diary, 2017/07/29 (culture / writing / blog)

I just went down the road to the quickie-mart and got coffee. It's something I do most every weekend morning since throwing away my home coffee maker to keep me from drinking too much of it. On the way there, I saw what I thought was a dead turtle in the road. I h ... read more

 saturday morning (family / adoption / holmes)

Tara made a good guess earlier. She thinks that the orphanage caretakers are telling Elizabeth that we will be taking her away from the orphange soon. They think they're doing us a favor, trying to prepare her. But now, every time that we come to visit and they le ... read more

writers need followers? (culture / writing / )

Publishers and writing gurus preach that writers need followers. The problem is that emotionally-stable people don't want followers, they want friends, compatriots, people who listen, not followers. Especially zombie followers. They're the worst! :) ... read more

 give your liver a break (life / health / )

pesticide levels dropped after organic diet ... read more

 will graphene supercapacitors make batteries obsolete? (education / technology / )

Cool! ... someday. From Will Graphene Supercapacitors Make Batteries Obsolete? Researchers with the California NanoSystems Institute recently developed a new battery-like supercapacitor, a device that stores charge, which may rival conventional energy storage te ... read more

June 21st, 2019 By Anastasia Originally published at kindearth and reproduced here with permission Once upon a time, I thought it would be fun to make spring rolls. Naturally, as common sense would have it, I followed the instruc ... read more

 doctors say she's normal (family / adoption / holmes)

Tara took Elizabeth to the international adoption specialist doctors today for a psychological evaluation and another physical exam. They say she is perfectly average/normal for a girl her age. Of course, that puts her well above average for a foreign orphan. ... read more

elizabeth cut off all her hair (family / holmes / elizabeth)

In the twenty minutes that Tara and I left Elizabeth alone, she found some (child-safe) scissors and cut off all her hair. At first I thought it was just wet. Then I realized she'd cut it all off. I laughed and said I was just glad she hadn't hurt herself. A fe ... read more

 dinner and a show (culture / writing / blog)

After stopping at Tara's sister Stephanie's house in Smyrna to pick up a newly-refurbished Kindle Fire that Todd had put together, we had dinner at a nearby Mexican restaurant, Mi Tierra. Elizabeth was dying for refried beans! Whatever. She's eight.Mi Tierra is ... read more

got yelled at today (culture / writing / blog)

Got yelled at today ... by a quail. I was crossing an empty lot toward the soccer field when I heard squawking. I looked down, and there it was. ... read more

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