(0) filteany | 4 months ago

On the 6 train, I was deep in my thoughts on what I should capture in the Philippines' Independence celebration. I was contemplating on what is essential to me as a Filip...

(4) frontporch | 3 months ago

Grandpa kept himself busy in the barn, finding little chores - the ones that always need doing but mostly aren't important enough to hem and haw about. But a stir in his ...

(1) blackfamilylife | 4 months ago

We have taken on small projects, here and there, the past 6 months to complete some home improvements around the house. It has actually been a whirlwind of emotion in try...

(0) David Cawthorn | 4 months ago

Thank God for blogs. Because without the ability to get facts out to the public via media other than cable and network television news, national news services such as AP ...

(0) johnsocks | 3 months ago

Well... to a door it's closed. To a glove it's a... hand. To a sock... it's a match. ...

(0) Moms @ Home | 3 months ago

Our main focus here will be the home and family. I am a Homeschooling mom of two teenaged sons, I work from home, and spend most of my time at home with my family. We are...

(3) Kimberly Michalski | 2 days ago

I'm getting that agitated feeling- the one that generates a little heat under my collar. From time to time it intensifies my propensity to blither and blather without fir...

(2) bahknee | 2 months ago

While i sit trying to convince myself to go to bed because i have to be at work early tomorrow, i write. i am thinking. i am listening to the showtunes channel on XM, whi...

(2) bahknee | 2 months ago

I made it. I did it. I'm home. Thursday night about 10:30 I hit the Florida Turnpike. I knew I was less than an hour away at that point. I had been driving since 2:40 tha...

(13) isabar | 2 months ago

PRESIDENT PALIN'S PHONE CONVERSATION WITH VLADIMIR PUTIN It's February 2009 and President Palin invites Putin to a showdown at the White House. By the way, President McCa...

(13) isabar | 2 months ago

Having softened the deep wrinkle between his brows with Restylane and Botox, Charlie Gibson hops on the three-day, non-stop, direct flight from New York to Anchorage to i...

(13) isabar | 2 months ago

Senator Obama received the memo this morning. No, not a friendly reminder that says: “You’re overstepping your boundaries, dude,” but the wire memo, the one that go...

(13) isabar | 2 months ago

Ok. There's nothing funny about this, but ... I don’t know about you, but today I’ve been trying to not think about it. Now, at almost four PM, I finally face it. I r...

(13) isabar | 2 months ago

Monday, November 3, 2008. Day before the 56th consecutive quadrennial United States presidential election. John McCain and Barack Obama are neck-to-neck in the polls. Thi...

(13) isabar | 2 months ago

Mr. & Ms. Jones sit in front of the TV on Friday night to watch Charlie Gibson interview Sarah Palin. Mr. Jones beams with happiness at the sight of the fresh politic...

(13) isabar | 2 months ago

The year is 2016. The New Supreme Court permits President Samson Palin to undergo a sex change operation. He is the former Sarah Palin. “I was a man inside a woman’s ...

(10) DaNice D Marshall | about 1 month ago

I was born into a long line of renters. My grandmother rented, my mother rented and I rented. No one in my family acquired real property, no stocks, no bonds, no retireme...

(38) Aspira | 23 days ago

My Dearest Mother, I can only attempt to express the love I have known from you. I can only attempt to do for you the many things you have done for me. I can only call yo...

(5) nancyscorner | about 1 month ago

I am a virtual office assistant I provide administrative support, personnel & resume services via the internet from my home office. In addition, I recently created a ...

(15) laurieboris | 2 months ago

My husband went out of town this weekend. As fate would have it, the day he left, I woke up with the scratchy yuck that for me, always signals the beginnings of a cold. S...

(38) Aspira | about 1 month ago

It was a cold dreary wet foggy night. The wind ran screaming through the night above the treetops, as the air below them was so eerier in stillness amid the banks of fog....

(38) Aspira | 24 days ago

Small itty-bitty rug rats. Small as they can be. Crawling and wandering, under the kitchen table, peekabooing. The girl smiles, and makes a kissy face, like all small itt...

(1) Aspira | about 1 month ago

We are a Hurricane Katrina Family. There's 8 of us living in this 3 bedroom trailer. We are very thankful there are 2 bathrooms! I'm doing the best to get me and my two c...

(1) Aspira | about 1 month ago

This section of myPNN newspaper will accomodate my Hurricane Katrina Jounal. The original journal was written by candlelight. I will also take the time right now to thank...

(1) Aspira | 24 days ago

Sunday, August 28, 2005 Getting ready for the hurricane... I had spent as much time online trying to keep up with my personal, and business issues, as well, as jumping up...

(1) Aspira | about 1 month ago

By the way, I am the contact person in the Mississippi Gulf Coast area and a staff writer for Red Owl Publications. If you or someone you know is interested in having oth...

(1) Aspira | 24 days ago

Monday, August 29, 2005 My niece was kind enough to let me sleep in her bed, sleeps pretty good really. I finally went to bed last night around 1 am. We sat and watched t...

(1) Aspira | about 1 month ago

Just in case you were reading my hurricane journal, you may want to come back or refresh the page, as I did add more to the last entry for Monday the 29th. Also, if you l...

(1) Aspira | 24 days ago

Tuesday, August 30, 2005 Up early, even before the sun had peeked out at us from the east. I folded our bedding, and packed them and the pillows back into the trunk of my...

(1) Aspira | 24 days ago

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 Hurricane Katrina Journal The power, water, and phone are all off. I cleaned out mother's refrigerators, yes, two of them. I wanted to get a he...

(1) Aspira | about 1 month ago

You know, the internet is a very entertaining and useful creation, which has evolved down through the years. It helps us in oh so many ways, from finding the information ...

(1) Aspira | about 1 month ago

When you have your own business, you will find that you can drive more traffic to your business website or even your personal website by the inclusion of good quality con...

(0) Aspira | about 1 month ago

In this big wide wonderful modern world, it can be very hard to grow up to be a good citizen of the world, what with everything from drugs, sex and various types of music...

(0) Aspira | 24 days ago

I love houseplants. Do you love houseplants? I even give mine names to make them feel at home. I always have music going so I can enjoy it and they say that plants love i...

(0) Amanda Bennett | 11 days ago

I have spent much of my life in search for "home." Whatever home is? Nowhere I have ever been has had the feeling one should get from the idea of home. Well I guess that ...

(1) Aspira | 24 days ago

Thursday, September 1, 2005 This morning, more freezer cleaning. Some of the stuff on the very top had defrosted, and needed to be gotten rid of, a cousins dogs got to fe...

(1) Aspira | 24 days ago

Friday, September 2, 2005 This morning, I gathered up the dirty clothes into a big garbage bag. Picked up and straightened up the house. Mother, the girls and I loaded up...

(1) Aspira | 24 days ago

Saturday, September 3, 2005 The heat has everyone's nerves on edge. I've tried my best to help other's be comfortable, but some folks, no matter what you do, are never pl...

(1) Aspira | 24 days ago

Sunday, September 4, 2005 My sister's husband is an electrical union worker. The guys from NC, that have been working on the road by their house, are union as well, my br...

(1) Aspira | 24 days ago

Monday, September 5, 2005 I've been thinking of the people associated with Beepbeepbeep Productions, and had wished there was some way that I could get in touch with them...

(5) Kimberly Michalski | about 1 month ago

Have you noticed that Democrat B. F's. neck is always bulging out of the top of his shirts. Maybe if he'd loose the tourniquet above his shoulders and get the blood flowi...

(3) emilyr629 | about 1 month ago

This is a big question people always seem to ask so I'm here to answer! Yes, you can make money with a blog, but it's not something that's for everyone. First of all you ...

(0) Vero | 8 days ago

So, I just started knitting early this year and I LOVE it! It is a great way to pass the time and incredibly easy to make useful things. Knitting involves three basic ste...

(7) annie | about 1 month ago

We had a bomb shelter when I was growing up. A leftover precaution from the threat of Russia. When we purchased our house the previous owner had forgotten to remove their...

(1) annie | about 1 month ago

I read a quote today that gave me more hope than a politician's words. "If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough." I know what you are thinking..."Come on, ...

(1) Aspira | 24 days ago

A Personal View of Poverty To begin with, I have never been much of a money person, by this I do not mean that I have no sense of money. I am very good with money, I draw...

(1) Aspira | 24 days ago

A Personal View of Poverty Continued... ...from here: http://aspira.pnn.com/articles/show/27977-a-personal-view-of-poverty Just realizing that it was not included in the ...

(38) Aspira | 24 days ago

If you would like to read a personal account of poverty or a creative story of self inflicted poverty, you may like to read these three articles. A Personal View of Pover...

(9) The Embassy Wife | about 1 month ago

“I need a towel for the worms.” These are words designed to terrify the mother of any 3-year-old. Along with “I fed the fish some crackers.” We didn’t even want...

(0) Aspira | 23 days ago

Spirit of the Dirt Red Road The land was as this before destruction came walking with the feet of man. Rolling there of course, because if they had it to walk, they would...

(1) Aspira | 23 days ago

Tuesday, September 6, 2005 I had gone one morning early and gotten gas in my car. I took mother to town. The one of the banks was open, and she had a check to cash. We th...

(1) Aspira | 23 days ago

Some stories that have touched my heart... these are stories that my sister told to me. She had heard them on the TV or radio, after she had power. The first. A family, a...

(0) ingarundquist | 21 days ago

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(0) ingarundquist | 21 days ago

One of the other things I've found challenging in getting used to this whole home office set up is the constant temptation of food in the kitchen next door. Sure, in an o...

(0) Margaret Gendreau | 20 days ago

I’m not going to lie, it was harder than I thought, especially the last three months before he arrived when I moved like a tranquilized musk ox. The first two weeks I m...

(0) Doreen | 16 days ago

Yes, you read that right. I got scammed. I thought I was too smart to ever let that ever happen to me. I always heard of it happening to others, and thought, how could th...

(5) Grace Allen | 12 days ago

The problems of the economy lay heavy on our minds as we read the news or watch t.v. Yet I was amazed at the amounts of people re-decorating their homes. I could not see ...

(10) YeaYeaWendy | 3 days ago

I have been considering taking my cat, Tornado to nursing home facilities to become a Therapy Cat. What this entails is going to nursing homes and visiting with the resid...