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About Me

Header Banner Made with MyBannerMaker.com! Click here to make your own! well. there's four in our household: me and my husband and daughter and our doggie topsi. i'm a baby boomer extraordinaire. i am an editor now but was an english teacher for many years. i have graded so many papers, u wouldn't believe it. i grew up near wrightsville beach, nc, and loved the waves but not the hurricanes. but it was a good place to grow up, semi-rural but near a town with plenty of diversions. the coast guard maintains a cutter that docks in wilmington, so we always got to see coast guard sailors walking around town. as a growing kid, i watched lots of ACC basketball and football games and cried pitiably when my teams lost. it's the ACC way. i went to ECU and NCSU and got degrees in english and history and secondary education. i taught at both places, longer at NCSU though. i'm native north carolinian of the 9th generation or so. i'm part french, mais oui, the best part!! i'm liberal, proud of it, and intend to remain so. i like moon pies and cheerwine and yahoos and macaroons. i have one sister who is 2 years younger than me; she got married at age 19; i got married at age 27. so she's already a grandmother; i'm not. i know very little about how to develop a great myspace page, but i'm still trying! bear with me, please.

my daughter's photos!!!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

i don't have anyone special in mind. except for the dalai lama, i would like to meet him. i like to meet people who have different backgrounds and talents from my own. i like to see different perspectives on life. just people!!! artists, writers, doctors, patients, oh, i don't care, everyone! just real folk with stories to tell. people who like chocolate ice cream and curry (but not in one dish). people who like reading, blowing bubbles, chewing bubble gum, being left-handed, watching the rain, coloring in coloring books (yes, adults can do it too!), eating my spaghetti, watching the history channel, talking about politics, making jokes, drawing doodles, scratching puppies' tummies, blowing balloons, riding ferris wheels, looking at yearbooks, eating potato salad and deviled eggs, looking at scrapbooks, sharpening pencils, using no. 1 pencils (not no. 2), buying birthday cards, sending and receiving snail mail as well as email, writing with a real fountain pen, sniffing french perfume, hating pink, sleeping under quilts in the winter, watching rain, studying biography and history, writing blogs!!

My Blog

When Life Hands You Lemons, Can't You Through Them Back and Knock the Lemons Out??

eeeeyeah, you and the horse you rode in on!!yeah, you and which army, huh???yeah! you wanna piece of me???yeah, i gotta million of 'em!!i am drinking sweet iced tea and sitting in front of an oscillat...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:05:00 GMT

It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

great day in the morning!! my kid's car went kerflooey, as i said yesterday. my hubby drove over to chapel hill, called Triple A, got the car towed BACK to raleigh, went with it and stayed a couple of...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:44:00 GMT

O What a Beautiful Day!!

what is life for if you can't enjoy it a little bit every day? right? all the tiny treasures can add up to a pretty decent sum.today i was close to whistling as i walked down the street to my car afte...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:42:00 GMT

The Low Cut, The French, The Weekend!

OK. now THIS is more like it!! FRIDAY, girls and boys! i can wear something loose and casual to work. something colorful and maybe even slightly low cut. lol. would i? should i? it's like giada de lau...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:51:00 GMT

I Gotta Be Me, Just Gotta Be Me!

i'm SO tired of seeing that Carol's Daughter ad up above the blog list. i finally visited the site. a woman with her own beauty products, recommended by oprah. i used to like oprah. i'd watch her show...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:19:00 GMT

Listen Up! Work Sucks!

monnnnnnnday o mon day mon mon mon day. another monday down. i'd just as soon skip it, as i've said before, but i guess it would be too disruptive, unseemly to knock one day off the calendar. we've go...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:03:00 GMT

A Toast: Thanks for the Memories

i coulda been a contender! i coulda been somebody! awwww, i can't do it like marlon brando. he couldn't do it like marlon brando either. when a person becomes a parody of HIMself, like brando or orso...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:29:00 GMT

C'mon, Row Your Boat, I Got Your Back!!

i need some air! tell somebody to push my reset button. my electrical system is trying to shut down. i just can't assimilate all this information. old men out shooting security guards. actor dead on a...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:33:00 GMT

Words of Wisdom from a Scaredy Cat

well, it looks like grasshopper got too far out there in the pleasure zone and a bit of it sucked the life out of him. poor grasshopper. i watched that program with david carradine; it was hokey but a...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:36:00 GMT

Early Thoughts on the Paternal

i'm starting early on my father's day observations. so here they are. my hubby has been a GREAT father!! my kid would tell you so in an instant. we have a pic of him holding her when she was minutes o...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:45:00 GMT