by Louiseza Sanderson of The Assignment Desk, DFW Each playhouse is donated by individuals or businesses, with proceeds going to abused children. DALLAS — the annual Parade of Playhouses returns to NorthPark Center August 3, when 16 oversized, undeniably neat playhouses will be on display through August 19. Each house is up for grabs in [...]
7/3/12 at 10:17 AM So. You know how everybody has a crazy close relative? Maybe it’s your mom or your aunt or your grandma, even? and you know she’s crazy and so does your sister or your brother or your dad, so it’s fine in a way, and in another way it’s not but it [...]
Darrel Akerfelds fought cancer hard, but ultimately it was a battle he could not win. Akerfelds, the longtime bullpen coach of the San Diego Padres passed away from pancreatic cancer. He was 50. Akerfelds was diagnosed with the terrible disease 19 months ago, but he did not let it slow him down. He coached in 148 [...]
We have kept chickens for three years and we love them. a lot of my clients keep chickens and I got the longing from watching them. Danny was encouraging but I overheard him telling his brother to make the run no taller than 5’4″, my height, so as to avoid chicken cleaning duties! I didn’t [...]
“Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs,” Mark Twain wrote in “Roughing It.” I’m not eating much ham anymore, but almost 150 years after Twain’s observation I couldn’t agree with him more about the eggs. from where I sit, writing these words on the third floor of my sister’s and brother-in-law’s house in southern Maine, [...]
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By Nicole Tanquary “Come ON!” came a shout. Gut’s voice, deep and growly. Wait, what? Was it morning already? Gut banged a sheet of dented metal with a mallet, filling our heads with dull ringing sounds. “Come on, get up, the vie are asleep, its almost dawn out there! We’re behind in our quota!” Gut [...]
It has been a strange winter in Minnesota. We have had a few coatings of snow here and there, but nothing has stuck around for an extended amount of time. Even more unusual is the record-setting high temperatures we have had lately. On the way home from work today, on the 10th of January, my [...]
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The Prime Minister of Malaysia’s a pretty game guy, and he’s now experimenting with a Facebook page specially targeted toward the Chinese community in Malaysia. this was reported by the Malaysian national news agency here. Saw “Ah Jib Gor” but no url, right? So you’d go to Facebook and look for “Ah Jib Gor” and [...]
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Dear Jeanne & Leonard: It happened again this Christmas. Each year my husband and I ask his brother what he and his family of four would like for Christmas, and each year “William” reels off a list of pricey items that end up costing us a couple hundred dollars. in return, he sends us next [...]
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 Avram Mlotek Special To The Jewish Week “Can I feed you?” he asked Joe, impatiently holding lunch and duly aware of the onlooker. “get the hell out of here!” Joe snarled, his face red. “you can tell the principal, damn it! Didn’t ask my sister for permission. Son-of-a-bitch,” Joe muttered under [...]
