like a hunted anmial she ran .. each step ment she was alive ...as she passed a broken window she shot a look , she no longer immortal , she had become something else .. sunk in face , circles under her eyes ... she stop and wondered who was this strange creature looking back at her , this was not her .... heart pounded with each turn she took ... the night was cold and it cut threw her bones she felt it .. hunger pains swept through her body .. she was now being hunted ... she could hear them as...

Did you go out on Black Friday at the crack of dawn? Did you survive? Or at least, get anything good?

I got a good deal on twin size sheets for my daughter at Kmart this afternoon (flannel set) for 6.99. That was great. I wasn't that impressed with much else but then again I also knew it was the wrong time of day for the best deals -

I got an email from Paypal telling me if I go to Walmart.com and spend 100 they'd give me $20 back.

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Here we are again, scattershooting and going all over the place once more. And we're all thinking about Black Friday. I went out and people watched and browsed at a couple of area malls.

And you? Well, I guess we'll just find out this Christmas.

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If you're like me, you have favorite TV shows of years long past. And when you were a kid, you often wondered if, whenever you've missed an episode, you'd ever see that episode...

hi my name is talitha jones i been wondering about who my father is for 7 years and counting now i have been through so much stuff because i have no father in my life i look at my sister even thouht her father is dead at least she know who he was and know his side of the family than theres my brother even thought his dad is locked he still know him and than thers little old me dont know who her father is and wonder if the man she walk pass on the streets is him i think that no child should have...

Dreams are great -- that's why it's fun to buy Lotto tickets. But dreams realized can't ever be as great as the anticipation, near as I can tell from my own experience. No, I never won a Lotto, but have realized some other dreams, and they're no longer any fun.

Ambitions often change as we get into doing what it takes to realize an ambition. I'm reading "Team of Rivals" right now and find even the most successful among us (like Abe Lincoln) have no idea where their life is...