Thrift Store Find: A Guy Named Ted’s 1991 Yearbook!
We all remember the somewhat-iffy glory days of our semi-beloved junior high school! Some of us adored it and some of us hated it. Apparently, Ted, whose yearbook I found on the shelves of my local...
View ArticleTrifextra Writing Challenge – The Phone Rang at 4am
The phone rang at 4am. I heard nothing. I was alseep. I had water in my ears from excessive pearl diving besides which I don’t even own a phone. So there’s that too. Take the Trifextra 33-Word...
View ArticleThrift Store Find: Nuclear Cheese!
I was wandering around my local thrift store on the prowl for the weird, the crazy or the strange — keeping my eyes peeled for the unusual, when guess what I found! An LP featuring the ominously...
View ArticleAliens Secretly Study Humanity Under the Guise of a 1960’s Sandwich Cookbook.
I know it’s hard to believe, but after carefully examining the above peculiarly worded cookbook from the 1960’s — it quickly became apparent to me that this is not a cookbook at all, but, in actuality,...
View ArticleTrifextra Week Seven Weekend Challenge: A Justified Exclamation Point
The barbecue’s rotisserie was assembled and soon a delicious aroma wafted from the meaty morsel skewered thereupon. “Mommy, my guinea pig ran away. Little Suzy cried. “No, “Mommy laughed heartily....
View ArticleDon’t Know What to Eat? I Know, Let’s Ask the Government!
I don’t know about you, but often times I’ll go to my refrigerator and open the door and stand there for days on end trying to decide what to eat. Not only does this kind of thing waste valuable...
View ArticleLinda’s List of Generic Excuses for Awkward Social Moments!
Dear reader we’ve all been there! We’ve all been visitors at the Awkward Moment Hotel. Checking in on our own accord then unable to check out gracefully once the social faux pas has been made....
View ArticleThe Day Frieda Flerf Got Lost In A Bag of Skittles
The Day Frieda Flerf Got Lost in a Bag of Skittles While eating Skittles, Frieda Flerf suddenly found herself inside the bag hopelessly pinned between a red one and a yellow one. As she began gnawing...
View ArticlePoetry Barn: An Ode to My Annoying Brain, Peanuts
Well my brain, Peanuts, was really annoying this morning. (Peanuts being the nickname my brain insisted on giving itself.) Peanuts sometimes runs amok and when that happens, all I can do is stand by...
View ArticleHow to be a Professional Gluey Paste Salesman in Ten (or maybe eleven) Easy...
Hello Dear Readers. As you may remember earlier this week, we were discussing some ads that appeared in an 81-year-old Saturday Evening Post such as this one for Gluey Paste: I am happy to report,...
View ArticleThe Taffy May Incident
Hello Dear Readers. Is it Lazy Friday Rerun Blog Day already? OK! Who am I to argue with the calendar! (except I do think a week should have 8 days and 3 of them should be a three-day weekend –...
View ArticleThis Weekend’s Trifecta Writing Challenge
This Weekend’s Trifecta Writing Challenge is to finish these 33 words with 33 words of your own: “There’s nothing cute about it,” he said. The register of his voice indicated decision more so than...
View ArticleShhh . . . Stop Interrupting and Listen to the Warm!
Foraging around the falderal at my local thrift store, (I am starting to feel like they stock it just for me!) I found this wonderful gem: “Listen to the Warm” Written and performed by Rod McKuen On...
View ArticleMy Retired Race Horse Sedentariat
From time to time I complain on this blog about the horrible tragedy of my childhood regarding my never having been successful at talking my parents into buying me a horse. Well, Dear Reader, I am...
View ArticleTrifecta Weekend Writing Challenge:
Trifecta’s Weekend Writing Challenge “Write a horror story in 33 words, without the words blood, scream, died, death, knife, gun, or kill. Good luck.” I see Freddie and I panic. My thoughts tumble...
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