Today is Thursday! So that means today is Thankful Thursday! What am I thankful for today? For the month of July I was given the opportunity to volunteer with my library to help instruct an art class for children ages 4-8. It's been fun so far and today one Chinese girl said to me, "You're really nice. Thank you for helping me. I have trouble cutting paper and no one listens to me. I'm glad you're helping me." That made me feel good, actually. When I move, I'd like to help kids on the...

When we moved from California we stopped at a restaurant in Arizona to eat but there was no table large enough so my parents sat at another table on the other side of the restaurant. So us kids got to order what we wanted which meant hamburgers and milkshakes. Soon after our food arrived a green pea landed on our table and since none of us had green peas we began to look around. Then my brother got hit in the neck by another one and we saw an old man a few tables away laughing and winding up to...

Larry, this is leftwinghillbilly and I am giving you rep. I like how Oregon law keeps people from living wall to wall people and preserves what feeds are bodies and souls.

I do not like Windows 8 at all so I surrendered and confiscated my Husband's Toshiba laptop and I am going to have the new Windows 8 HP laptop cleaned off completely and put back to factory specs and sell that danged thing.

Sometimes I do not adapt to change very well at all and this happens to be one of those time.
I'm older and like the older versions of Windows. The touch screen I can deal with on my iPad but the whole Windows 8 thing is beyond my grasp right now it seems....

Things were cheap in the early 70s but money was hard to come by for a kid 10-12 years old. If there was something we really wanted we would have to wait for Christmas or our birthday. But to have spending money for the important everyday needs such as candy and soda a kid had to use his wits. We would shovel snow in the winter for a couple of bucks a driveway or wear ourselves out pushing lawnmowers all over the neighborhood in order to cut someone's grass for about 2-5 dollars a yard. We even...