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Hello to all my peers. I never thought I would be writing anything anyone else would want to read. One exception being my college English Comp 101 teacher several years ago. And now, here I am, a 58 year old female who took an early retirement from a long

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Creative Writing > Humor Humor: Childhood: 29 of 78

I can't stand it any longer; I've held it in for 40+ years. Why? I respected my friend and did not want to embarrass her. But now, I think it has been long enough, and since I'm not going to tell her name, my respect takes second seat to the humor I've just got to let out! My best friend lived only 4 houses down from my hous...
Home & Garden > Home Interior Easy ways to give a spring look to your home: 8 of 21

Everyone longs for that first day of sunshine and a short sleeved shirt after the dreary, cold days of winter. Most activities, the past few months, have been inside where it's cozy and warm. Now the warm rays of sunlight, little green sprouts starting to burst through the cool brown earth, fresh, rejuvenating air is drawing...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: The dump: 11 of 24

My very first, and still my best, girlfriend and I began our long adolescent struggle together on the first day of the first grade. I lived in the country, no kids around and not many neighbors. My boy' cousins would come around a couple times a week. Other than that, I did not have any other kids to play with. Now if you wa...
Food & Drink > Beef, Pork & Meat Recipes Recipes: Main course meat: 42 of 90

Beer and chicken...together on the hot grill! What is more simple? Grab a clean, plucked, whole chicken, about 3 lbs., and be sure it is clean inside and out. Now, take one 12 oz. can of beer, any kind, pop the top, and drink half of it. Still very simple, right? Be sure you have a medium hot grill, double check to be sure a...
Jobs & Careers > Jobs & Careers (Other) Tips for starting a new second career after retirement: 6 of 10

TOO YOUNG TO RETIRE? You have arrived! THE day is FINALLY here when you can walk through the office door and do not have to think about what you are going to wear to work tomorrow, what the boss will be demanding to be completed 30 minutes after you arrive, no irate customers yelling on the phone, and on, and on, and on. Nop...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Post partum depression, "the baby blues": 5 of 8

You have just experienced the most awesome nine months of your life. Some of the time was spent wondering when you would start gaining weight, when the morning sickness would stop, what was that little flutter low in your stomach, and a hundred new feelings. And that little bundle the nurse just brought in was the cause of t...
Home & Garden > Home Repair (Other) Central air conditioning: Easy DIY preventive maintenance: 2 of 3

Its 6 p.m., a very hot 96 degrees with the humidity at about 80%, and you just got home. Of course, the a/c in your car didn't quite have time to cool off before you got in the bumper to bumper traffic on the interstate, so you had to turn it off before the auto overheated. That's OK. At least you remembered to leave your ho...
Politics, News & Issues > Drug Laws & Prevention Should welfare recipients be tested for drugs?: 12 of 17

Government Aid (Welfare) Recipients should definitely be drug tested on a regular monthly basis as long as they are receiving any kind of government subsidy. And, if they disagree with this, should be questioned and have a lie detector test. If they do not pass the lie detector and/or the drug test, their aid should be stopp...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Healing in the garden, how my garden helped me: 50 of 67

Gardening has not always been up there as number one on my list of fun things to do. From the time I was about eight until I married and moved out of my parent's home, I always had to work' in the garden. Since we lived next door to my fathers' parents, it was my father's place to help put the vegetable garden in every sprin...
Business > Entrepreneurship Women entrepreneurs and franchising: 7 of 9

Opportunities abound for anyone searching for that one life-long dream, your own business. With doors being opened everyday for women-owned businesses, there is no reason success and happiness can not be achieved if you are willing and able to meet special requirements. Different strategies can be life savers. One is owning ...