A hugely anticipated annual event in Mississippi is the Prairie Arts Festival - held in my hometown of West Point. The Festival is held 
each year
Prairie Arts Festival - August 30, 2008
on the Saturday before Labor Day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. - in West Point’s downtown area That means this year it will be on August 30. Read the rest of this entry »
Today is Thursday, August 21, 2008. This is the 234th day of the year with only 132 remaining until the new year. There’s still time to accomplish all those lofty goals you set on New Year’s Day, but it’s crunch time.
Today is officially Senior Citizen Day as declared by President Ronald Reagan and adopted in 1988. But I’m not sure what that means. Are we to honor those kids who are in their senior years of high school or college - or our elders? Read the rest of this entry »
I think I may be turning into a tightwad, and it’s all because of a little spiral bound notebook that found its way into my handbag.
Self discipline has never been one of my strong suits, so when I read that you can save a bundle just by writing down what you spend, I was sold. I also heard that people who record everything they eat will lose more weight when dieting. So I invested 89 cents at Fred’s Dollar Store for my little red notebook which has become a sort of pseudo conscience, reminding me I can be an out of control consumer – or a merry miser. Read the rest of this entry »
“Next time around I’m gonna be a plumber. Standing knee deep in water’s a bummer. My calls go ignored. I’m getting a sword, or running him down with a hummer.”
I’ll never be an Ogden Nash but hey, I can write poetry too. The poet famous for his strange but funny rhymes of nonsense was born on this day in 1902.
Ogden Nash, the undisputed American master of light verse, wrote quite frequently for The New Yorker. He also had several of his pun-filled poems published. These collections include The Bad Parent’s Garden of Verse, which he wrote in 1936 and the popular 1957 collection titled, You Can’t Get There from Here.
One of his most well-known couplets from Reflections on Ice-Breaking reads: “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.”
Mr. Nash had fun with just about any subject. Consider this little ditty from his observations at the dinner table: “Celery, raw, develops the jaw. But celery, stewed, is more quietly chewed.” Read the rest of this entry »
NOT!
Yes, the August Mars hoax is back.
You may have been alerted via your e-mail that Mars and Earth are scheduled for a close encounter on August 27. I got excited because that is my son’s birthday and he will be visiting. I was going to throw a party to celebrate and was even going to rent a telescope. Read the rest of this entry »
