Where Do Chickens Come From?

Posted by Lovelyn | June 26, 2008 .

Sometimes I just say exactly what I’m thinking. This isn’t always a good idea. Especially when what I’m thinking isn’t very smart. This is what happened last night at dinner.
“Where do chickens come from?” I asked.
“Eggs,” my husband laughed.
My stepson flipped through his world history book ignoring yet another ridiculous dinner conversation.
“I mean you don’t [...]

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First Day of School

Posted by Lovelyn | June 23, 2008 .

After five years of being home schooled my stepson started school today. He was nervous on the way there but seemed completely unaffected when he got home. He said he’s making a 1970’s style Ugandan military hat in his tech class. I’m not sure what tech class is but it obviously involves making hats. [...]

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Who Killed the Electric Car?

Posted by Lovelyn | June 20, 2008 .

Someone posted “Who Killed the Electric Car?” on Google Video. I tried to post it but the player wouldn’t work on my blog, so here’s the link where you can watch it.

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What’s That Smell?

Posted by Lovelyn | June 16, 2008 .

The other day, I was sitting in the living room writing as usual while my husband cleaned up the kitchen after lunch. My husband and stepson were talking about dictators or something. I kept noticing a strange smell while I tried to write yet another ehow article about how to give a massage. But I [...]

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The Weight Watchers Identity Crisis

Posted by Lovelyn | June 11, 2008 .

This is my mother. She’s biracial. Her mother is white and her father is black. I don’t think she ever really struggled with her racial identity until now.
The other day I got a phone message from her that went something like this. “I’ve only got 31 more pounds to lose before I hit my [...]

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Dreadful Weather

Posted by Lovelyn | June 9, 2008 .

Just recently I told someone we’d just moved here from Florida and she said, “Why’d you want to do that? The weather is dreadful here. You probably haven’t seen the sun once since you’ve been here.”
“Actually we’ve had some nice weather,” I said. It was sunny and lovely that day. It had been lovely for [...]

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It’s Not Easy Being Green

Posted by Lovelyn | June 2, 2008 .

Last week we noticed that my stepson seemed to be turning green. The front of his arms and his neck were a kind of greenish color. Since he has a habit of eating things he shouldn’t–once he chewed up a paintbrush handle–we were afraid he had some kind of poisoning. After freaking out about what [...]

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