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Happy Birthday, E. B. White

By Missy, on July 11, 2006, 12:01 am

Today, July 11, in 1899 writer/author E. B. White was born.

When my brother was in first grade and I was in kindergarten, his teacher assigned all her students to write to an author. My mother, a former teacher, decided that I would participate in this project also. We’d been spending our evening family reading [...]

June Allyson

By Missy, on July 10, 2006, 7:41 pm

I’m so saddened to hear that June Allyson has passed away. June’s daughter, Pamela Allyson Powell, announced today that June died on Saturday from pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness.

June was such a charming actress in movies like Little Women (1949) and Two Girls and a Sailor (1944). She’s quoted [...]

Sunday in the Park Imitating George

By Missy, on July 7, 2006, 11:57 pm

This is great! A group of people in Beloit, Wisconsin decided to create a modern-day version of this famous George Seurat painting, “Sunday Afternoon on the Island of LaGrande Jatte.” I’d love to put a version of the new image in my post, but I’m sure it’s copyright protected…so you’ll just have to trust [...]

Sightings

By Missy, on July 6, 2006, 11:37 pm

A couple of sightings today:

The cutey in this picture might look familiar to you…but it is not
Reggie. This is Sparky, Reggie’s brother. I kid you not. Reg and Sparkster
were littermates and Sparks lives with a friend of mine. He’s a cutey,
but not as cute as Reggie…NO I’m not predjudiced! Yes, I did tell
Sparky’s mom "cp" [...]

Birthdays Times Three

By Missy, on July 6, 2006, 12:01 am

Happy Birthday to MML!!!

Happy Birthday to LG!!!

Special wishes to both of you! I hope you have wonderful, memorable days! I know you can’t hear me, but I’m singing songs, one in particular, for both of you! (I posted a cake for you, but it looked corny so it went by the way of good intentions [...]

Two Left Feet

By Missy, on July 5, 2006, 12:51 am

Many bloggers post lists of things they’d like to do before they die. These usually seem to be lists of 100, or even a 1,000, items. I haven’t taken time to create such a list…I’m too busy with today’s, this week’s, this month’s, etc., to do list. ;-(

But watching part of Yankee Doodle Dandy after [...]

Independence Day 2006

By Missy, on July 4, 2006, 5:12 pm

Happy 4th of July! I have a lot of fond memories of July 4th celebrations. I remember as a young child in Tulsa, OK, my father and other men in the neighborhood would set off firecrackers after we kids ran around with sparklers. In Illinois it’s illegal for anyone but firemen, etc., to set off fireworks, [...]

Success! ;-)

By Missy, on July 2, 2006, 11:01 pm

I set a goal and I succeeded! Friday I posted that my goal for the weekend was:

"to do little and accomplish less."

I SUCCEEDED!!!

On both Saturday and Sunday: I slept late, read the newspaper, watched TV, took a nap, and ate simple, yet, sufficient meals. Oh, all right, I probably ate too much. But…I did [...]

Canada Day

By Missy, on July 1, 2006, 11:13 am

Nineteen years ago today I was on a college trip to Europe with 14 others studying the European broadcast systems. On this day, July 1, 1987, we were in the Netherlands and our hosts, EO, a Dutch television network, had arranged for us to tour Amsterdam. We were a small group, but represented six different [...]

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