November 2014

Pin Me!

…and of course, as soon as I wrote the title of this post, my mind jumped to the erotic interpretation. Hazards of writing the sort of stories I do, I guess. 🙂 I resisted joining Pinterest for the longest time, not because I didn’t get it or didn’t like it, but because I have a

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The Only Unsolved Case Of Air Piracy In American History

So here’s a doozy I tripped over while wandering through the rabbit burrows of history the other day. On this day in 1971 a man, whose identity is still unknown, hijacked a Boeing 727, demanded $200,000 in ransom, then jumped out of the plane and skydived to the ground. He has never been found. No

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Expenditure Twenty Pound Ought And Six

Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. Another ingredient for a happy marriage: Budget the luxuries first! And another–In a family argument, if it turns out you are right–apologize at once! From The Notebook of

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Golden Oldies

Lately, when I have wanted to seriously veg out, I’ve sat down and watched movies from the heydays of Hollywood. 1940s and 1950s classics, like Rebecca, The Philedelphia Story, To Catch A Thief and North by Northwest. And when I’m really, really in the mood for schmaltz, I’ve been dipping into tear-jerkers like An Affair

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