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Lori Duff June 17, 2013 at 08:57 pm
Thanks! My family is a sitcom. I would write more about them, but I don't want to make anyone mad.
Wendy Fine June 18, 2013 at 02:13 am
I can just picture it and, yes, your family sure is a sitcom and that's why I love you. I can SO…Read More relate!
Tammy Osier June 17, 2013 at 09:45 pm
Loved Monster's INC. Great message. Can't wait for the new one to come out. I'm going with all 6…Read More grandkids and my grown kids.
I think all of us can adopt the attitude that we are our brother's keeper and be the umbrella they need.
Sharon Swanepoel (Editor) June 15, 2013 at 01:51 pm
I'm with you on the dandelions Jason - just had to trim mine. But since I got my Jeep Liberty on…Read More Friday - I just can't bring myself to find anything to rant about!
Amy L June 15, 2013 at 07:14 pm
I have another rant about slow drivers. The intersection with the ramps to Sugarloaf Parkway from…Read More New Hope road is the only opportunity there is to pass anyone as you travel east or west on New Hope. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE remember slower traffic keep right and give someone who isn't a scared old myopic grandmother a chance to pass you. Otherwise, I'll be riding your a55 and fuming all the way up to Lawrenceville.
Tammy Osier June 17, 2013 at 06:59 pm
Traffic rants aren't making traffic get better... So, here's one that I think will resonate with…Read More many people. When you've signed up for something new, your computer doesn't recognize your passwords right away, so tell you that the password you just put in isn't recognized. Then, you have to do it umpteen times til it lets you in. I've had to do this so many times it's unreal. For a while, my student loan account made me change my password every time I logged in. I don't quite understand why that one is so secure. What is somebody going to do, go in there and pay my bill? There's no money to be had, that's for sure.
Tammy Osier June 18, 2013 at 12:09 am
Funny how we spend the early parts of our lives trying to be anything but like our parents, and then…Read More when we learn what life is really about, we realize how much we need to be like them.
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tijensen June 15, 2013 at 12:34 pm
The better assignment would have been how could you have written a letter to try and convince them…Read More not to commit suicide. To persuade them about all the wonderful things you love about them, how special they are and what the world would miss if they were not in it. A creative teacher could have used the same exercise to teach a life lesson that may have helped someone save a life down the road.
Tammy Osier June 15, 2013 at 12:40 pm
TJ, exactly. Like you said, a GOOD teacher would have found a way to make students think outside the…Read More box yet still examine the mood of the story. But I do agree with ggy that it might have been more appropriate for a college aged student. High school (girls especially) have so much drama going on inside of them, and confusion about so many things, that it might be impossible for them to be objective in an assignment like that. Boo to the teacher.
flyinby June 15, 2013 at 08:34 pm
strikes me as more subversive attempts by perverted minds dedicated to influence all our children…Read More with this sick mindset:
http://larouchepac.com/node/11188
http://www.naturalnews.com/040744_euthanasia_children_mercy_killings.html
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/06/sarah-palin-blasts-sebelius-for-denying-girls-lifesaving-lung-transplant/
http://cnsnews.com/blog/judie-brown/lives-unworthy-be-lived-and-polst
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-elite-are-attempting-to-convince-us-that-killing-off-our-sick-grandparents-is-cool-and-trendy
suicides higher than car crashes past few yrs http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207089/56-million-suicide-prevention-programme-launched-study-reveals-Americans-lives-die-car-crashes.html
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/08/more-states-consider-legalizing-assisted-suicide-as-baby-boomers-age/
Tammy Osier June 15, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Well, Dave, back in those days that was what a man did. He did the best he knew to do by his family…Read More which was his expression of love for his family. My Dad sometimes worked two jobs too. but at the shop, at least in the 60's, he was sometimes 10 getting home. Father's and daughters have a different relationship than fathers with their sons and vice versa. He worked weekends, so his day off was on Thursday. He'd get me, not my brother up to go fishing. I asked one time why not my brother and he said, 'He doesn't like to fish like you do". He found other things to do with my brother such as paying for him to play ball. So, I think money played a big role in showing affection for fathers to their sons. But you know Dave, Dad's did that so that we would have our Mom's at home. Our generation had an advantage that this one doesn't in that respect.
Diane Lynch June 15, 2013 at 03:00 pm
This brought tears to my eyes. THANK you for your work--it's simply impeccable writing. Help, how do…Read More I post this specific piece on fb? Just copy and paste? :) Diane
Tammy Osier June 15, 2013 at 03:43 pm
Diane L., Do you mean, how do you post this on Facebook? If so, look just above the comment section…Read More and there's a place to forward. Diane, I started writing when my children were small. I put my "career" on hold while raising them, and one by one wrote stories that spoke to something about each one of them. I wrote The Dress about character being built in my daughter while growing up poor, The Time Capsule about the frustrations (and joys) of raising a 14 yr. old boy, and Rites of Passage about my oldest daughter's first job making money (also about character). Click on my name and you can read those. I love to share these stories as they were written during times of struggle and gave me a way to appreciate the thing I DID have. I'm especially close to my Dad since my mother died in a tragic car accident when I was 12. Luckily, I already had that bond formed. My Dad is special and is 80, with cancer. I go see him as often as possible. I guess you'd say, for a girl, that her father is her first love. :)
Jana Crump-Aquino June 13, 2013 at 11:01 pm
I disagree with a lot of your "gift choices"!!! The alike t-shirts are adorable,…Read More especially in older couples, in my opinion, as obviously others cause they do it! My husband loves mugs and since we only run our dishwasher every couple days, he needs multiples (we also use for ice cream, soup and cracker snacks for grandchildren cause they can hold the handles easily!) white t-shirts are good for men to sleep in, or under dress shirts - a man always needs extra! Socks as well!! I agree a thoughtful, personalized gift is the best - but what is wrong with adding on some of these others as extras, or use because the man who has everything doesn't buy t-shirts, mugs or sock for himself!!!! Just my opinion, like the above is your opinion!! :-)
Tammy Osier June 13, 2013 at 08:38 pm
I was never blessed up top so had to keep my bottom half together so that there wouldn't be such a…Read More great contrast if I gains weight (the poor females in my family have the pear shape). I agree that one reason women probably are proud of them, is that most women will suffer big-butt syndrome for most of their adult lives (why does food go straight there???), and having big ones evens it out and takes the eyes away from what we don't want anyone to notice. I never quite got why men put so much stock in them when they don't DO anything. All the action goes on elsewhere. Although, that explains a lot about what they say about men, that if you cut them open you couldn't tell which was their brain and which ...went...uh...elsewhere since they think with both ends. lol
David Binder June 14, 2013 at 04:21 am
I'm thinking I'm glad you didn't ask my opinion on this. I would have been totally honest of course,…Read More but you may not have been able to print it here. LOL !! Proud to be part of your 98%
Tammy Osier June 15, 2013 at 12:29 pm
Even though, as Jason said, this started way back to Nixon, I thin the great divide in ideologies…Read More started with Clinton. When a moral issue came up, you suddenly saw the waters part. Then, when you had the hanging chad thing in 2000, the vitriol began. Then, we went to war after being attacked and I've never heard such hatred and nastiness in my life. It just hasn't stopped due to this divide. How do you suggest we get it back?
Tammy Osier June 15, 2013 at 05:45 pm
Jason, I looked and looked and looked. Finally found it on one website dedicated to being as gross…Read More as possible. I was encouraged that it took so long to find it. You'll never rid the world of people like that, but seems to me we should be focusing on the other 90% that get it right.
Good Grief Y'all June 18, 2013 at 08:49 am
Thank you for this article, Jason. It was a long time coming on Patch boards.
North Georgia Weather June 17, 2013 at 07:09 pm
Tammy, there is a cell over Lithonia right now that is headed your way, should be there within 30…Read More minutes.
I created a new blog post for today and tomorrow:
http://dacula.patch.com/blog_posts/wet-day-or-two
Kristi Reed (Editor) June 17, 2013 at 10:39 pm
The devil was beating his wife here too for a while, but now it is just cloudy with about 110…Read More percent humidity.
Octo Slash June 14, 2013 at 12:18 pm
My kids drink coffee every morning because they need something to accompany their cigarettes.
Tammy Osier June 14, 2013 at 01:12 pm
Tr - the perfect diet - the Mediterranean diet has a lot of fish in it. Olive oils etc... Our…Read More American diet has a lot of animal fat in it and look at us as opposed to other nations! Fish oil is brain food. A multi is good, but we should ask our pediatricians about adding fish oil to our kids' diets. We should get our (good) fats through diet. Good fats help vitamins go where they are supposed to and do what they're supposed to do.
Deedee June 15, 2013 at 08:12 pm
My grandma always drunk coffee all day and I started around 30 and I am no good without at least one…Read More cup a day but she always stated that we couldn't have any as kids because it will stunt our growth. I have always felt that there is something to many of those old sayings and did not let my son touch it.
Tammy Osier June 14, 2013 at 01:30 am
I guess this makes me a promoter...…Read More
http://loganville.patch.com/blog_posts/i-was-raised-by-an-opinionated-southern-gentlemandaddy-said-it-i-believe-it-and-that-settles-it
Tammy Osier June 14, 2013 at 01:32 am
..and this one...
http://loganville.patch.com/blog_posts/youre-a-native-of-atlanta-if-you-remember?
Tammy Osier June 17, 2013 at 07:48 pm
As I was re-reading these, and noted the chain link fence, how many remember these highways only…Read More being two lanes?
George Louth June 18, 2013 at 08:17 am
Funtown was on Stewart Avenue (Metropolitan Parkway) across from Zayres near Stewart Lakewood…Read More Shopping Center
Brenda Lee June 13, 2013 at 03:48 pm
I learned to drive on a 1965, red VW Bug, it was the family car and the only one I was allowed to…Read More drive. I insisted that both daughters learn to drive on a stick shift and the final test was to be able to keep the car in place on the hill coming out of New London Plaza in Snellville using the clutch and the gas. They passed. ;)
Jada Daniel June 18, 2013 at 05:27 pm
A manual Red 1981 Ford Escort Hatch back. I had the type of speakers you find in a house for…Read More "base". And if you ever blow the horn, which I did twice, it would blow a fuse and you will have no interior lights nor head lights for that matter. My dad believed in duck tape. So when my glove compartment door thingy fell off, he just ducked taped it shut and told me to never put anything in there. Well duh, can't open it anyway, what with the duck tape in all. And the "Pièce de résistance" was that the reverse shift was push down and to the top left, which I never could figure out how to use, so I had to always park so I never had to use the reverse option. It was really hard to find parking, so I always ended up parking a few miles away from I needed to go 99% of the time. Good times. Good times. Oh, and I was a horrible parallel parker, what with not knowing how to reverse. Oh, and it always seemed like I had to be downtown Savannah, GA 99% of my time. If you been to downtown Savannah, you know how almost every parking spot requires parallel parking. Ah, yes, good times indeed. Wouldn't trade it with no one. Or, well, no one wanted to take it soooooo. :-)
Jason Brooks June 12, 2013 at 09:06 pm
Sara - I dreamed of a condo today while cutting my yard. I cannot tell you how often I've lamented…Read More my decision to buy a house with almost an acre of ground to maintain. I don't know how people with more than an acre do it.
Jason Brooks June 12, 2013 at 09:07 pm
Hillary - My daughter is nearly 10. Once she reaches double-digits, the yard will become a regular…Read More part of her weekly duties (not all of it, mind you; but enough to help me stay sane!).
Jason Brooks June 12, 2013 at 09:08 pm
Skalaway - I cultivate artistic creativity through writing. Mainly because I suck with plants.
Robbi McCaig June 12, 2013 at 12:08 pm
"There are people in all levels of government office who would like nothing more than to be…Read More able to conduct all the public business out of public view"
The problem is, who's going to stop them? Certainly--no one from this justice department who is complicit in multiple overreaches and coverups.
Tammy Osier June 12, 2013 at 12:41 pm
I wrote this on another post but it so applies here and is worth repeating:
James Madison wrote in…Read More the federalist paper (no. 51) concerning the separation of powers and need for limited government , "“ It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government……”
We need to have a "Madison moment"...
Tammy Osier June 12, 2013 at 12:41 pm
I remember when I opened up the news to see that Holder was going to investigate Holder. Ha! What's…Read More scary is that there are some who think that's just fine?
Graham Lutz June 11, 2013 at 02:37 pm
How about we start letting adults make decisions for themselves about what they put in their body.…Read More Prohibition does more harm than marijuana could ever do.
Tammy Osier June 17, 2013 at 01:53 pm
DR, seems like an oxymoron doesn't it? I'd like to hear from someone who is actually from there to…Read More find out their spin on why they even enter a contestant in the first place. It's my understanding that a woman that shows that much skin in public will be flogged or worse? Maybe democracy is taking ahold in some places, who knows?
Good Grief Y'all June 17, 2013 at 03:24 pm
I was wrong. Guys are interested pageants. You would no doubt be happy if the contestants just…Read More wore the face shawl with their bikinis.
Karsten Torch June 17, 2013 at 04:30 pm
Couple of thoughts -
One, why hold it in a land where there is going to be this kind of protest?…Read More Just move it and don't worry about it.
Other, I find it interesting how the Muslims want us to be understanding and inclusive of their beliefs, but don't even think they'll allow anything they don't agree with. Just a tad bit hypocritical...
gdfo June 10, 2013 at 03:00 pm
Real home made Ice Cream is such a wonderful treat. I have only had it a few times.
This is one of…Read More those recipes that, in my opinion, is not enhanced or will not enhance a wine or spirit drink. I will also tell you that I have had a spoonful of real Italian Ice and then sipped a smoky Herradura gold tequila while the Italian Ice was in my mouth.
Your Ice cream recipe is one to be enjoyed by itself and probably with a timely distance between a meal and this creamy dessert.
North Georgia Weather June 9, 2013 at 08:13 pm
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING THROUGH
MONDAY MORNING...
THE NATIONAL…Read More WEATHER SERVICE IN PEACHTREE CITY HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH AND EAST CENTRAL
GEORGIA.
* FROM 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING THROUGH MONDAY MORNING
* DUE TO THE COMBINATION OF DEEP GULF MOISTURE ADVECTING INTO
NORTH AND CENTRAL GEORGIA AND THE APPROACH OF AN UPPER LEVEL
TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE...HEAVY RAINFALL IS FORECAST ACROSS MUCH
OF THE AREA THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. WIDESPREAD RAINFALL AMOUNTS
OF 1.5 TO 2 INCHES ARE FORECAST WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS POSSIBLE.
Bob Pepalis (Editor) June 9, 2013 at 07:26 pm
My downstairs neighbor at the condo in Alpharetta told a tale of being trapped in her home on…Read More afternoon recently, with copperheads at her front door and on her back patio, the only two exits she has.
Terri Bianchini June 10, 2013 at 11:04 pm
My husband collects swords. I would have gone into ninja mode and ther would have been some serious…Read More chopping going on!
Laura Jones June 12, 2013 at 12:19 am
I used to have 2 snakes, and have learned to identify wild ones them when I see any snake..and sadly…Read More the result is people think they are vicious...but when they are scared, esp. copperheads, most will use a 'dry bite' in defense. I would recommend getting a book to be more familiar with the various beautiful snakes we have in GA.
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