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I have been a hairstylist for 31 years, I have heard it all. People like to tell their stylist about their lives. What they would like to do where they would like to go. It would make a great book to write, I just haven't had the time to write it yet. I know

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Celebrations & Holidays > Gift Advice Gift ideas for the elderly: 19 of 41

Gift's for the Elderly, The best gift you can give to an older person is your time. Yes you can go out and buy them something, but most of the time it isn't something they want or need. How ever if you would take fifteen minute's to sit down and cut their finger nail's and talk with them they would enjoy that much more than ...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Stories passed from parents to children: 10 of 16

Sand Mountain Witch's My Grandma told me many stories when I was a child. I'm not so sure that all of them could be proved as the truth. But she was a wonderful lady, and I wasn't about to say I didn't believe her. First of all, she would have boxed my ears. Grandma was born in 1880, she lived on Sand Mountain in North Alaba...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Southern humor: 6 of 8

Dumb Hillbillies Sara Jane. You get up here right this minute, and help get them closes hung out ta dry. And how many times I got ta tell you ta stay away from there a gawking at Holbart Finch. Just cause he come here ta work for your Pa, don't mean you going ta be taken up with the likes of him. Mattie Ann Klump stood on th...
Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Grandparents: 9 of 11

Starving At Grandma's? Who ever heard of starving at Grandma's. Well if you had ever had to spend the summer at my Grandma's, you would know it can happen. When I was 10 years old, my mama packed up things and shipped me off to spend the summer with Grandma. Now Grandma lived in the mountains somewhere in the south. I was bo...
Religion & Spirituality > Ghosts & Paranormal Phenomena Assessing psychic Sylvia Browne's talent: 24 of 26

Sylvia Brown Any body that believes in God, wouldn't even want think about asking Syliva Brown anything. I have watched her only a few times on Montel Williams show. She sits there in her tacky dress and her fuzzy hair looking like she hasn't had a bath in a month telling people that they have a dead person sitting next to t...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Growing old: 60 of 60

Who ever said getting older was better, must have been a fool. Getting better at what? Complaining about your feet hurting, you can't stand up straight any more because you have broke your self down working your self to death to raise a house full of ungrateful kids. You make all the big plains of what you are going to do wh...
Jobs & Careers > Occupations (Other) Truck driver: Challenging the stereotypes: 6 of 6

Challenging the stereotype of the truck driver. Thirty years ago, the truck driver was the knight of the highway. If your car broke down on the road, the person most likely to stop and help you was the truck driver. If your car couldn't be fixed , he would drop you off in the nearest town. If you didn't have any money, he mi...
Arts & Humanities > 19th Century US History A look at the American political parties of the 1850s: 4 of 4

Political Parties of 1850's To be able to give an account of the political parties of 1850's one must go back to the start of each party and give some history on them first. Democratic party, was first called Democratic Republican's or Jeffersonian Republican's. The party was formed in 1790. The party adopted it's name (Demo...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Hog hunting: 4 of 4

Back in my younger years my husband an i lived on top of a mountain in southeast Tennessee. He worked hard all week at his job, on weekends he didn't get out much. So when he ask me to buy him a 12 gage shotgun, I was happy to do so. He hadn't showed much interest in hunting before. I thought this might be good for him, get ...