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1. 8 days ago on Cul de Sac

   I’m not sure I could have handled that; Listening to KYW rattle off closing numbers like an auctioneer was more than enough.

2. 15 days ago on Cul de Sac

   The story of my life, listening to school closing numbers: 651, 652, 654… dang it!

3. 15 days ago on Stone Soup

   I like that idea, but somehow doubt the recipients would.

4. 15 days ago on Stone Soup

   Nooo, I was the cake baker growing up, but mastering my mom’s pie crust, & baking cookies without burning? No so skilled.

5. 16 days ago on Baldo

   Yes, a real tug on the ol’ heartstrings.

6. 16 days ago on Luann

   I think the latter, but the former is funnier, imo.

7. 16 days ago on Luann

   LOL

8. 16 days ago on Luann

   “Besides wrapping paper and boxes can be saved and reused at least once.” A family tradition in our household, which extended to gift bags once most of us got tired to wrestling with rolls of wrap & tape.

9. 16 days ago on Luann

   Keep in mind that it isn’t that teachers wanted to stop teaching cursive, it’s that “writing” instruction now includes teaching (& assessing incessantly) how to respond to open-ended questions and writing paragraphs and multiple page typed essays, so where we learned cursive, they’ve been having keyboarding classes since K-1st. When I was teaching, we’d have to explain that reality not only to grandparents, but sometimes parents – who grew up taking the state tests, but before corporations took over public education curricula (cough! Common Core)- and assessments. We always told them we were grateful if they wanted to reinforce the smattering of cursive instruction we did in class – it’s still a rite of passage for kids, who love to use the cursive fonts on the computer.

10. 16 days ago on Non Sequitur

    ""Ee’s NOT the Messiah! “Ee’s a very naughty boy!!!”