"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." - William Shakespeare Peanut should have a new name. If I were still blogging regularl...

"Every time you go away you take a piece of me with you." -Paul Young "She's old enough," we said. That's how ...

"Where troubles melt like lemon drops, high above the chimney tops. That's where you'll find me."- from Somewhere Over th...

"If I ever lose my faith in you, there'd be nothing left for me to do." -Sting We started with a couch. A three-seater sofa....

"It's not about aptitude. It's the way you're viewed. So it's very shrewd to be very very popular.  Like me." -Fro...

"These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around....

"Speaking words of wisdom, let it be." -The Beatles Peanut is indeed her father's daughter. Sometimes, like in the case of h...

In the town where we live, we have what is called a Magnet system for the public elementary schools. Each school has its own specialty. (En...

In the town where we live, we have what is called a Magnet system for the public elementary schools. Each school has its own specialty. (Env...

I've been having a little fun with the New York Jets' Facebook page recently. You see, I'm sort of a stickler for grammar. (I ho...

"Never rat on your friends. And always keep your mouth shut." -  Goodfellas. Young "Hendry" gets pinched and learns ...

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison It seems every day, Peanut will say...

"Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules to fight the rising odds?" -Bon...

Returning to my #PayItForward series after a long break for the holidays, with a writer whose blog I've been enjoying for quite a wh...

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." -Judy Garland We all have a job...

Words can injure. We all know this. Like me, I am sure you've been on both the giving and receiving ends of nasty language, spoken or w...

"There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.”~ Sue Atkins There has been a considerable amount of outrage late...

Some unexpected traffic on the bus ride home meant I would be a little later than normal. So I texted My Director with some basic instructio...

"The universe is one great Kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson." -Orison Swett Marde...

Today I am pleased to feature a wonderfully talented writer and blogger. "Dumbsaint," as I will call her because s...