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  1. Mother Dragon

    I'm alive and back - Maybe

    You may have missed my pithy postings for the last few months. I've had quite ar ride dur9ng this time. I've gone crazy (literally), been hospitalized ten times in six different hospitals, gone blind (except for a bit of light in one eye), and become paralyzed from the waist down, all overnigth...
  2. Mother Dragon

    Create a Holiday

    There are all kinds of holidays, but we could always use another reason to celebrate. Life is pretty darned good. Your challenge is to create a totally new holiday. Give it a theme, a character or characters, colors, special ways to celebrate, foods, even pick the day or date if you want. The...
  3. Mother Dragon

    Christmas Songs

    What Christmas song did you hear so much you got really sick of it? For me it's Santa Baby, which I call the gold digger song. Your nomination?
  4. Mother Dragon

    It's Over!

    The most of the holiday season is over. Are you happy, sad, relieved, or indifferent? Bah, humbug? In truth, I'm glad it's over. All the greed, aggressiveness, got to buy, I want this, have to cook, have to go, overspend, make it perfect, rush, rush, rush. I'd be happy to crawl in hole and...
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    Traditions

    Every family has its holiday traditions. Some travel long distances, some stay home. Others party. And some just want to whole thing to be over. Do you have special holiday traditions? A certain menu? A special song? Mistletoe? Elf on the Shelf? If you exchange gifts, do you open them on...
  6. Mother Dragon

    The Most Precious Gift - And It's Free!

    My husband and I were always blood donors for as far back as I can remember, until we no longer qualified. It started at work when we got "Kiss me! I gave blood!" stickers. Who wouldn't want to get away from hard work for half an hour, lie down on the job, and get free juice and cookies, too? A...
  7. Mother Dragon

    Hidden Treasure

    We all have something we've hidden somewhere in the house. Sometimes the trick is in finding it later. If you were to hide a small piggy bank about the size of a small tea pot, and stuffed with currency, where would you put it so no one else could find it without demolishing your dwelling? I...
  8. Mother Dragon

    Halloween Costumes

    Halloween is that wonderful holiday when we can be something or someone different. Creating a costume that startles, scares, or amuses is fun. I had friends who came up with unusual costumes. One year they were beer cans. They discovered too late they couldn't sit down. Another year they were...
  9. Mother Dragon

    You Deserve the Best

    I have some beautiful flatware and some nice dishes that have been in the cupboard for years because the thinking is to only use them for very special occasions. As a result, they've only been used a couple times. I got to thinking. Why were guests who never really notice such things because...
  10. Mother Dragon

    Birds of a feather

    Most of us love birds. We all have different favorites, from magnificent eagles to hummingbirds to parakeets and canaries. I love bluejays for their bright colors and sassy attitudes. I also love cardinals for the same reasons. I loathe vultures, especially after they've been eating road kill...
  11. Mother Dragon

    If You Could Go Back...

    If you could go back in time and say to someone, "I'm sorry. I regret..." who would it be and why? I regret never getting to know my other as a person. She was always my mother. I know now there was so much more to her I would love to have known and shared.
  12. Mother Dragon

    Sharing Or Enabling?

    It seems there are street people everywhere, most bearing signs "Will work for food" or "Hungry. Please help." Sometimes when you offer them a freshly-bought burger or sandwich, they accept it and feed it to their pitiful-looking dog as soon as you've gone. Then you see many of these same people...
  13. Mother Dragon

    Smoke!

    Harrigan, our resident poltergeist, continues his rampage. We've had a smoke detector beeping for a few days. We have seven, so we have to hunt the chirper down. Robert got a package of batteries so he could restore peace. I hate a whimpering smoke alarm. We were firmly snoozed out when a smoke...
  14. Mother Dragon

    Household Items

    Besides the constant cat food and litter, there are some items we all absolutely must keep in stock. For me, it's paper towels, cream of mushroom soup, pens, pencils, and notepads, Dr. Pepper, milk, bread, and facial tissue (Puffs). Not counting cat things or toilet paper, what are some...
  15. Mother Dragon

    Age

    If you woke up in the morning and didn't know how old you were and had no way of finding out, how old would you choose to be? How old are you really? I would choose to be 47. That's old enough to still have fun but wise enough to stay out of trouble. In reality I'm 73.
  16. Mother Dragon

    Getting Into Mischief

    Confession is good for the soul. Have you ever toilet papered (T.P.'d or wrapped) someone's house? This strange tribute was usually done to someone you liked. You gathered up all the toilet paper you could, either from home(s) or by buying huge packages of it. Then, in the dead of night, you...
  17. Mother Dragon

    The View

    If you look out the closest window to where you are now, what do you see? I look through the bay window in the breakfast area and see the back yard, with the gardenia bush, the garden with a tomato plant with some alarmingly yellow leaves, a big patch of spiny aloe vera, Larry, Curly, and Moe...
  18. Mother Dragon

    Full Moon Crazies?

    Do you notice that people are crazier when the moon is full? My husband pooh-poohs the idea but I vehemently disagree. I used to work in customer service and we got the genuine crazies and loony street people when the moon was full. We all wanted to call in sick when the full moon fell on the...
  19. Mother Dragon

    Postal Food Drive This Saturday

    Don't forget to fill a bag with non-perishable food and place it by your mailbox this Saturday. It might be better to use a plastic bag to keep out critters and to keep the food dry. There are so many people who depend on food banks for food. Some of them are our fellow members of TCS. Let's...
  20. Mother Dragon

    Budget Buster

    Have you ever bought something without looking at the price and after you're committed to buying it (or have bought it), realized it wasn't within your budget? My husband buys meat at the grocery store deli for our sandwiches. He usually gets a pound of a couple kinds of house brand or Boar's...
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