Archive for January 2009
Two, Too, and To
Posted by: Kathy on: January 19, 2009
One of the terribly irritating but somehow charming things about the English language is its overflowing number of homonyms or homophones — words that sound the same but are (usually) spelled differently and mean different things.
I’ve recently been subjected to a great many people that I personally know using the wrong word in this manner. [...]
Even if it’s a good deal, should you buy it?
Posted by: Kathy on: January 19, 2009
- In: frugal
- 2 Comments
One of the blogs I keep up with lists a bunch of “deals” — freebies, coupons for free or nearly free items, Walgreens specials, and also her own personal Walgreens trips, where she proudly announces that she bought $115 worth of stuff and spent $6.
Sounds good, so why not?
First, when I check the things I [...]
Art?
Posted by: Kathy on: January 9, 2009
This was too funny — a woman took photographs of some artwork her 22 month old daughter did (finger-painting or something like that), and showed them to an art director (without telling him who had done it. The art director was entranced, and put them in his show or gallery or whatever, as abstract art. [...]
This is my 200th post
Posted by: Kathy on: January 8, 2009
Don’t really have that much to say, and little time to say it, but I just saw that I had 199 posts, so thought I’d make it an even 200.
Adoptive couples I know
Posted by: Kathy on: January 5, 2009
When I hear from abortion advocates who say that only white newborns are the only adoptable babies, I want to scream and laugh. From my small circle of friends and acquaintances, I know numerous white couples who have adopted many children who were not newborns at adoption and/or are not Caucasian. I’m going to write [...]
Great Blog
Posted by: Kathy on: January 4, 2009
- In: vaccines
- 2 Comments
I’ve found a blog that I’ve been keeping up with that has a lot of vaccine-related posts lately: Baby Dust Diaries. Not all the posts are about vaccines, of course, but the majority of the latest posts have been related to it, with a lot of links and information I haven’t seen before.
Fight FOCA
