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Star Borne
Earth’s Extraterrestrial History
A Guitar Man By Any Other Name
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Baldemar Garza Huerta, does this name ring a bell? I’ll give you a hint… he was born in San Benito at the southernmost tip of Texas, does that help? No, he didn’t fight at the Alamo, and he wasn’t a …
Did you have to be so nice to the crazy lady?
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We’d just eaten lunch at the Big Chicken, a major landmark Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Marietta, Georgia, and as we walked through the parking lot afterwards, my husband asked, “Did you have to be so nice to the crazy …
Posted in Humor, Pay It Forward
Tagged big chicken, crazy lady, how people will remember you, how will people remember you, how you affect the world, leaving your mark, make a difference, making a difference, pay it forward, reincarnation, strangers on the street, your impact on the world
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70s Funk Revival
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The other day I heard a song on the radio, and I thought that the DJ had pulled out some old song from the 1970s which I’d never heard before. It was pure funk, and I wondered how I’d missed …
Posted in 60s and 70s, Entertainment, Music
Tagged 1970s, bruno mars, funk music, funky music
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iWorks Pages, OSX Lion, and Baskerville Font PDF Glitch
It pays to post solutions to online forums where you can find them again, because you may very well need to go back and fix the same thing later. It’s been a booger of a computer year when one morning …
Posted in Books, Writing
Tagged apple pages, baskerville, baskerville font, corrupted baskerville font, corrupted font, corrupted pdf, iworks pages, osx, osx lion, pages 09
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Are Robins Really the Harbinger of Spring?
I’d always heard that seeing a red-breasted robin signaled the beginning of spring weather. I never gave it much thought except to say the magic words when I saw the first red-breasted robin of the year: “I see a robin! …
Posted in Animals, Nature
Tagged harbinger of spring, old wives tale, red robin, red-breasted robin, robin, robins, spring has sprung, spring is here
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Do Pets Remember Being Abducted by Aliens?
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This is probably the weirdest blog post I’ve written to date, and I am writing it in all seriousness. Our dog Dakota was sound asleep and actively dreaming, loudly yipping with her feet paddling as if she were running a …
Posted in Animals, Cats, Deep Thoughts, Dogs, Otherworldly, UFOs and Extraterrestrials
Tagged abducted by aliens, abduction screen memories, alien abductee, alien abductees, alien abduction, alien abductions, alien encounters, aliens, bad dream, bad dreams, cat abducted by aliens, do aliens abduct cats, do aliens abduct dogs, dog abducted by aliens, dream, dreaming, dreams, et's, extraterrestrials, gray aliens, grey aliens, nightmare, nightmares, scary dream, scary dreams, screen memories, ufo, UFO abductions, ufos
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The Whimsical Wait for a Colorful Spring
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Today is a whimsical day. Looking out at the rare Georgia snow, I am ready for the mellow days of Spring. My sweatpants are neon zebra-striped fuzzies in lime green, hot pink, lemon yellow, royal blue, black, white, and psychedelic …
Posted in Animals, Insects, Nature
Tagged bee joyful, bugonia, bumblebee, bumblebees, carpenter bees, goldfinch, hoverflies, hoverfly, northern flicker, polka dot woodpecker, polka dots, polka dotted, tame bees, zebra finch, zebra striped
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How About Some Political Good News?
I rarely follow the news. I have no idea what’s going on in the world unless so many people are talking about it, that the bad news enters into my sphere via word-of-mouth. Notice that I specifically said “bad news” …
Posted in Animals, Cats, Government, Nature
Tagged bad news, big cats, big cats going extinct, conservation efforts, extinct, extinction, george bush, good news, nature news, obama, political news, political scandals, presidential scandals, scandals, the grapevine, the news, world news
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Eyelashes: From Wicked Witches to Flirty Fun
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Ancient Aliens and the Age of Giants introduces you to Azazel, the Watcher, one of the 200 fallen angels who got in trouble for commingling with mankind. His band of rebels wanted to take human women as wives, and they …
Posted in Body Business
Tagged antimony, eye lashes, eyelashes, kohl, make up, makeup, mascara, mascaro
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