Blog Toy Box: Celebrating Our Matriarchs

Blog Toy Box: Celebrating Our Matriarchs

by | Dec 25, 2008 | Leisure

Where art thou, Mother Christmas?I only wish I knewWhy Father should get all the praiseAnd no one mentions you. I'll bet you buy the presentsAnd wrap them large and smallWhile all the time that rotten swinePretends he's done it all. So hail to Mother...
Blog Toy Box: Ideologically Thomas

Blog Toy Box: Ideologically Thomas

by | Dec 25, 2008 | Leisure

If you have a little boy or girl, then you probably know about Thomas the Tank Engine. No, I don't mean a character. And I don't even mean a show. And, no, I don't even mean a merchandise aisle at Target. I mean what becomes, so very easily, an entire way...
Blog Toy Box: Poor as Dirt

Blog Toy Box: Poor as Dirt

by | Dec 25, 2008 | Leisure

Back in the day when everybody was poor, people were less materialistic. Although a shiny new red wagon would be a great gift, some kids were lucky enough to get a potato in their stockings. We were somewhat poor in the Locavore Famiy and my mother tried to set an...
The Surf Life

The Surf Life

by | Dec 25, 2008 | Leisure

Finally, I am rescued.My arms are numb. My shoulders burn with pain. It feels like my stomach muscles are being ripped out of place, from one crushed rib after the other.At least the water is warm.Squinting through salt-stung eyes, I see the surfing instructor gliding...

Pooh and You

by | Jan 1, 2009 | Leisure

The severe and scholarly among us—those prone to cultural nostalgia—seem often to decry the current "bastardization" of the English language, and are quick to attribute a rise of phonetic spellings and abbreviations to the tech revolution and an...