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Boys will be boys and boys will have toys. Come between me and my computer games or my chocolate chip cookies and you just may lose a necessary body part. Normally, I’m not too vicious, but I have been [...]

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plo?sive
??/?plo?s?v/ Pronunciation [ploh-siv]
Use plosive in a Sentence:
While listening to the Mamas & The Papas on her iPod, Penelope played with her purple platypus, punting papayas peacefully, until a plosive exploded and ripped off her …

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Should you toss someone out the window even if they’re keen on the idea? That isn’t meant to sound like some existential koan. In this week’s Mirror Down the Hall™, Laurie admits to quite the mischievous streak in [...]

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You’ve heard the Lays potato chip slogan “Betcha Can’t Eat Just One,” right? Well, you would only eat just one, if after that first bite you reached into the bag a second time and a steel trap snapped off your fingers. [...]

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Since I feel I’ve weighed in heavily on the topic of racism, in the past, I’ll be quite brief. If you’re interested in what I think about race, racists, racism, bigots, idiots and inflammatory invective, then give these previous posts [...]

Down home cookin’ on this week’s Trim™
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Though some people might turn up their noses and stew about eating snapping turtles, there are many living near endless Iowa corn fields that think nothing of sitting down at the Country Pumpkin, putting on the feed bag over Labor Day and feasting [...]

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Politically, I prefer a no spin zone. Spinning is fine on the dance floor, however, or on an exercise bike and while doing laundry. Sadly, for many fans, friends and family members, the world spun a little more slowly, this [...]

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Who’s your best friend? Why? Would you drop everything and go anywhere to do anything to help them? Do they know this about you? Can they count on you? Has your friendship ever been tested?
What is [...]

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The best mirror reflects true without a smudge of judgment.
Have you had the pleasure of looking into a good mirror, today? Not one of those fun house mirrors at the carnival or some cracked and dusty surface that’s been [...]

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I remember the first time I saw the empty shell of a dry fly or cicada. The exoskeleton clung to the bark of the huge maple in our front yard beside dozens of other brown little bodies in some eerie sci-fi [...]