(2) Jackie Papandrew | 6 months ago

This nationally syndicated humor column by award-winning writer Jackie Papandrew dives into the laundry basket of life with hysterical tales of everyday insanity. Check o...

(2) Jackie Papandrew | 6 months ago

My son recently turned 13, and the last traces of that sweet little boy who thought I hung the moon seem to have vanished. In his place is a strange, slouching creature w...

(2) Jackie Papandrew | 6 months ago

Occasionally, someone who no longer wants to be my friend will forward me one of those annoying emails, the ones that have been sent to every email address on earth and a...

(2) Jackie Papandrew | 6 months ago

As a professional columnist who writes on matters of pressing national importance that frequently involve food-thieving dogs and sanity-stealing teenagers, I sometimes ha...

(0) starryeyed | 4 months ago

I was born in a small town in the south. That song Tom Petty wrote titled 'Six Gun Town' was about my home town. He claims he's gotta get out of that place...well so did ...

(0) awewriter | 6 months ago

What exactly "IT" is, I do not know but I have a feeling you'll find out what I did next by coming here and reading what I had to say when I said it. Not exactly the stuff...

(3) CMOR | 4 months ago

Hello!!! And please wipe your feet as you enter... This is very much a new genesis in my creative undertakings... All you could never need may be found here, if only I cou...

(0) CMOR | 4 months ago

People rarely comment on my songs, besides the usual, 'Great Song!!!' feedback... Here is your chance to tell me what you think or feel... You can comment anonymously, or...

(1) CMOR | 5 months ago

This is a 2 year old mice pace post which I am happy to paste for you... I did write it, however... Redundancy Is Getting Old... Today is a fresh day... A chance to weigh...

(1) CMOR | 4 months ago

Living at the crossroads has been both beautiful and rough... The real estate is plentiful, but the cost is one's soul, and every moment is spent paying, albeit paying at...

(4) frontporch | 4 months ago

You can see Blue Collar Corner from the front porch. It is at the end of a long road that runs a lifetime along the edge of town, an Avenue once known as Middle-Class. Af...

(4) frontporch | 4 months ago

" Anger is the rawest, most common form of insanity." - Bounty-Hunter, Author, Preston Law " Be the change you want." - Gandhi Walter has been our neighbor since the days...

(4) Vero | 5 months ago

As a member of the graduating class of 2008, I have something to say to you "real world"...what now? I just finished college with a B.S. in physics and if I have learned a...

(4) frontporch | 4 months ago

Four generations under one roof. We're not talking family reunion here. We're talking necessity borne of tough times. We took advantage of the Spring weather last night a...

(1) R. Eason | 4 months ago

Anyone who moves to New York City with the hope of finding happiness is a fool. I should know, I was one. Unlike any other city in the world, New York offers the promise ...

(0) R. Eason | 4 months ago

I called my 86 year old grandmother one morning and was surprised to hear how jovial she sounded. Her poor health had given the family a scare. The hospital admitted her ...

(2) blackfamilylife | 4 months ago

Alice Hanks Ferugson, also known as "Miss Alice", "Big Momma", and to our children, "Nanny". Big Momma was my mother's mom. There are many "Big Momma's" that have been th...

(2) blackfamilylife | 5 months ago

In our family, there is a very strong bond that unites us all. The strength in black families is a strength learned through the need to survive. In the early years, the l...

(1) Galvanize | 5 months ago

Driving always fills my eyes with delightful sights: over here, the Burger King and the yoga studio; over there, the Starbucks, the Little Caesar's, and the YMCA; and dow...

(4) frontporch | 4 months ago

I have decided to be One of those People . There are two choices. 1. You will see me on the evening news, (pictures at 11), just another crazy, screaming about our corrup...

(4) frontporch | 4 months ago

" Wake up, Ted. You wanna go for a helicopter ride? Come on, get up! "Ted? . . . . . Ted?!" Ted Kulongoski, the Governor of Oregon, the great 'Trailer Park' of the United...

(1) Maya | 5 months ago

I'm still slightly bewildered by the thought that in a month's time, I shall be packing up and moving myself yet again, this time to Taiwan. I've become somewhat of an exp...

(1) blackfamilylife | 5 months ago

Today started out beautiful for us. We went to visit a new church today, after being invited by my Aunt several weeks ago. We have a church that we attend regularly, but ...

(1) blackfamilylife | 5 months ago

Because I think each day minute by minute. I hope to give you at least a little something of our life to read about each day. "EACH DAY IS A BLESSING, MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN...

(2) Gloria Attar, RN BSN | 4 months ago

(Originally written in 2001 while living in Italy with my daughter, then three years-old.) 'My mother is a travel agent for guilt trips.' I have often said that about my ...

(1) blackfamilylife | 5 months ago

Some days it seems that we wake up with the weight of the world on our shoulders. Strange how fast the mind and emotions can overtake your entire perspective on any parti...

(2) R. Eason | 4 months ago

She had it all. Natural beauty. A slim body. A high-profile career. An apartment in a high-rent district in New York. So if she appeared to have everything going for her,...

(4) frontporch | 4 months ago

Grandpa was forced to quit his job pumping gas ( in Oregon, motorists are not allowed to pump their own fuel ) because could not afford the gasoline to get to work. His p...

(4) frontporch | 4 months ago

We fell to sleep, our last night as normal people, in the house that had been our home for three years, listening to the difference of it's emptiness. Barren of the thing...

(4) frontporch | 4 months ago

It wasn't until mid-life that our lives finally found each other. Suddenly, it seemed, we discovered this giddy, adolescent butterflies-in-the-stomach kind of thing. Thic...

(0) blackfamilylife | 5 months ago

CAPTURE A MOMENT ...

(1) cherylannenelson | 4 months ago

If you take the "A" train from Manhattan into Queens and head toward Rockaway Beach, you will pass through a town called Hamilton Beach. Don't blink, though, because if y...

(0) blackfamilylife | 5 months ago

ANNUAL FAMILY COOKOUT AT MOMMA'S...

(1) blackfamilylife | 4 months ago

Holidays are a great time to get together with family and go over the events that have happened since the "last" time. The 4th of July is always an enjoyable day. This ye...

(1) blackfamilylife | 5 months ago

DADDY, MOMMA, BROTHER, SISTER, CAT, DOG, MOO, NO NO, THANK YOU, PLEASE, STOP, QUACK QUACK, MEOW, BYE BYE, JOJO, OUTSIDE, DORA...

(1) blackfamilylife | 5 months ago

Scotty called on the 4th of July. As usual, we expected a call from him, especially on the Holidays. I imagine it being very hard for him, especially on days where memori...

(1) blackfamilylife | 5 months ago

For all the mother's out there, do you ever wonder what would happen with those small things that you do for your children, if you were gone? I mean, gone, as in passed a...

(1) toriclark | 4 months ago

Tori Clark author and public speaker has put together an informational seminar series on Quantum Linguistics. She is bringing language into our lives with learning skills...

(1) blackfamilylife | 4 months ago

The routines associated with our everyday life can sometimes get boring and predictable. There are so many things that you can do as a family to out smart some of those p...

(4) frontporch | 4 months ago

It takes alot to piss-off Grandma. "You hitch up the wagon to an ornery mule, well after you ride to town a time or two, the orneyness just becomes a fact of life." Grand...

(4) frontporch | 4 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) cscirr67 | 4 months ago

I was wondering what this life really is? Is there really such a thing. What are we really all working so hard for. Weather we are looking for that perfect job or perfect...

(0) blackfamilylife | 4 months ago

School is almost set to start in 3 1/2 weeks. Wow! It seems that the summer weeks are passing so fast. As children, I think I enjoyed the summer days so much that it neve...

(1) blackfamilylife | 4 months ago

I spoke to Scotty today in Iraq. We can call him whenever we want with the technology today, Yahoo and Skype calling work great to reach people around the globe for a min...

(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...

(2) 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...

(1) blackfamilylife | 4 months ago

So, JoJo is 13 years old now and just this past year we have experienced a growing interest in going to parties and spending more time away from us. As always, we do most...

(2) blackfamilylife | 4 months ago

I know that I sounded so optimist in dealing with Ziah's "temper tantrums", but I have to say that she is not responding very well to my previous tactic at all. Only 13 M...

(2) shivers | 4 months ago

If you have had to fight for your life, drop me a note here. Me and my readers would love to hear from you. Stories about other people's struggles and eventual triumph ove...

(0) naduahmarie | 4 months ago

I sit and ponder where life would be today if I hadn't made the move I had. Taken the leap into the unknown. Then I think "Why am I pondering?? I took the leap!" Yes, and...

(1) toriclark | 4 months ago

Quantum Language For Maximum Results is now published in EBook form and ready for purchase. Go to www.mygenielovesme.org. Hurry!! For a limited time only you can get the e...

(1) blackfamilylife | 4 months ago

Take the time to find other methods of relaxing, before committing to taking medication to help you relax. Finding time to relax may be under your own control and these r...

(0) Necrodisiac | 4 months ago

I believe every girl begins life as a princess... but how we end it, that is where the story is. Do we become like the monsters that frighten us? Do we grow twisted and gn...

(0) johnsocks | 4 months ago

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

(4) MissFit | 4 months ago

I am a big proponent of doing what I want to do, when I want to do it - that is, within reason. That might sound strange coming from someone who runs a fitness and nutrit...

(4) frontporch | 4 months ago

My son was only four years old when my wife and I divorced. For financial reasons my son and I moved 2000 miles away to San Antonio where I had family. Needless to say th...

(5) angelofsoul | 4 months ago

Is it our families? Our friends? I've thought about this question for a long time. And I still can't figure it out. I used to believe that the purpose of life was to live...

(0) angelofsoul | 2 months ago

I wrote my feelings down one friday, and this is what I came up with. Sorry it goes from topic to topic. This is the first morning I've seen the sun rise completely, and ...

(1) phoenixfire75 | 4 months ago

1. Accept nothing less than the best for and from yourself. 2. Trust your gut. 3. Allow others their opinion, but don't let their opinions of you make or break you. 4. Do...

(3) Hollee Chadwick | 3 months ago

First a little background information: There is a trundle bed underneath my husband's and my bed. The trundle bed is from the days when John's boys were little and there ...

(0) naduahmarie | 4 months ago

My Genie Loves Me has been revamped.. A new look and a new sound.. Go to the website.. and secure an E-Course today.. a limited time offer on these prices. www.mygenielov...

(1) toriclark | 3 months ago

My Genie Loves Me has been revamped.. A new look and a new sound.. Go to the website.. and secure an E-Course today.. a limited time offer on these prices. www.mygenielov...

(1) phoenixfire75 | 4 months ago

I remembered something yesterday - something I hadn't thought about in years. I suddenly remembered my 5th grade classroom and we were having to get up and give impromtu ...

(2) vbright | 4 months ago

It occured to me that I am becoming one of those reclusive writers. You know, the ones who talk to their pets and spend hours obsessing over their writing material? My ch...

(4) Kimberly Michalski | 2 months ago

I've been waiting for 2 years to get rid of that awful cantaloupe color in the "dining room". This weekend the movers came and hauled away the dining room furniture and n...

(0) angelofsoul | 2 months ago

We tend to say things like "Oh that'll never happen to me", or "Stuff like that rarely happens". There are many surprises that we come across as we move forward in life. ...

(2) Hank | 11 days ago

I don't know how many times I have told someone "nothing has changed, everything is the same here." But that is a lie because nothing ever is the same. Our lives are not ...

(1) mademoisellebelle33 | 4 months ago

5. Don't be a hypocrite, it's tacky! 4. Don't moan and bit*h about a situation you got yourself into. 3. Definitely try something new every once in a while! 2. Harry Pott...

(12) Gretchen Lancour | 3 months ago

Recently, I read a great blog post about getting your life back on track. From time to time, I'm convinced I've gone so far off the rails I'll never be able to pull her b...

(2) I'm Maudie Durkin | 3 months ago

My age is none of your business, so don't think I'll tell you. But I'm old enough not to get pimples, that's for sure. You'd think that. But I get the little buggers and ...

(2) I'm Maudie Durkin | 3 months ago

Seems that on our back porch there's a string art picture of a sailboat that a shirt-tail relation's father made, a long time ago. Tommy knew whose it was and who made it...

(0) Food Heathen Gazette | 3 months ago

Does anyone know? I like cantaloupe, but it tastes like soap to me. Nice soap, sweet soap, but...SOAP. Always has . ...

(1) sweetieworld | 3 months ago

My name is Sweetie and I'm a cat. I'm 6 years old and I know a lot of important things, like how to type. Typing isn't easy, because my claws get in the way, but sometime...

(0) I'm Maudie Durkin | 3 months ago

I love to sing. So I'll sing a little and make some music of my own. I hope you enjoy it . ...

(0) I'm Maudie Durkin | 3 months ago

But you've come to the right place . ...

(0) tfurcill | 3 months ago

<!--StartFragment--> The crash startled the house. I swear at that moment a tractor trailer had blown through the kitchen right into the room where I was standing. My ...

(1) phoenixfire75 | 3 months ago

I believe that the feminist movement is really about the spirit denied. I believe that women have powerful spirits full of great strength, determination, and an inner kno...

(1) jeannineshea | 3 months ago

Here I am. Vainly attempting to entertain the masses with idle talk of my life. Do I really have anything interesting to say? Will anyone even care? All my life I have fe...

(1) toriclark | 17 days ago

I have so much to tell.. so much to express for everyone to see, to hear.. it is almost overwhelming. I have changed so much in the last 6 months that I most of the time ...

(0) naduahmarie | 3 months ago

I have so much to tell.. so much to express for everyone to see, to hear.. it is almost overwhelming. I have changed so much in the last 6 months that I most of the time ...

(3) sweetdreamer | 3 months ago

"I have never before so proudly owned anything, but my own life." (found on the last page of my high school journal written @ 2:10 A.M 10/1/95) ...

(4) Kimberly Michalski | about 1 month ago

The activities are endless when kids employ their own imagination! ...

(4) Kimberly Michalski | about 1 month ago

If bicycle riding is anything like ice skating, you never forget...right? Exactamundo! At least that's how it worked for me. It's been 25 years since I've been on the ice...

(2) L Wallgren | about 1 month ago

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell Passions unguided are for the most part mere madness. Thomas Hobbes- Leviathan I ne...

(2) shivers | 3 months ago

Your world is a mirror of you. What you see out there is what you hold inside. So if you are filled with love, boy, are you going to get some! But if you're not, you can ...

(21) Kimberly Michalski | 26 days ago

We know that every day he ingests over 10,000 calories and practices about 5 hours. But did you know he has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, also known as Attent...

(4) Ed Michalski | 3 months ago

If your disbelief was not unsettling enough, please hold on, because you are now downwind of the sweet delectable candy factories. We find ourselves in a maelstrom of tas...

(0) barstoolphilosophy | 3 months ago

The phone rang I'm sorry I was drunk I hit my lowest And I needed to hear you're voice I couldn't take it anymore Sitting in my room Thinking who your with Another guy An...

(0) barstoolphilosophy | 3 months ago

This world is made for a gambling man. My father taught me how to gamble, properly, at the age of 7. He sat me down and showed me how to play cards on our old stained cof...

(1) barstoolphilosophy | 3 months ago

I'd been down for awhile. Nothing special, or important was happening at that time and I was getting bored. I always get down when I'm bored. This one night in particular...

(9) Kassandra | 3 months ago

Beautiful. How can you not feel inspired reading something like this? Cherish yourself and others. I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He refer...

(0) Kassandra | 3 months ago

Yesterday I finalized all my study abroad plans and dropped off my changed loan application. Even though I have been away for 2 short months I noticed that a lot has chan...

(1) B The Gossip Girl | 20 days ago

Hot Gossip, is all the great up and coming talent in the Kansas City Metro Area and beyond. I am interested in finding the up and coming bands, artists, restaurants, bout...

(9) Kassandra | 3 months ago

Every single week day - around 11:30 am to be exact - the lady next door plays the piano. At first I laughed a little bit at her. This lady, like clockwork, always starts...

(0) bahknee | 3 months ago

Spent about 4 years of my life living and working with Mickey Mouse. Growing up I used to watch this thing called "cable tv". (i was like 5. it was amazing.) Anyway, ther...

(6) B The Gossip Girl | 3 months ago

8/28/2008 Hilary Duff's daddy Robert was arrested and sent to county jail after selling assets without court approval. Naughty! Mommy and Daddy Duff's 2 1/2 year divorce ...

(0) Valerie | about 1 month ago

"Your life is an occasion...rise to it." ...

(1) forgetmenot | 2 months ago

"What's the use?" people say - all the time, as they wring their hands and sigh. I can't begin to tell you how many people I speak with who are stuck in complacency and w...

(9) Kassandra | 2 months ago

For the last month I have been completely stressed out about selling my car. This is my last "monetary" headache while I am studying abroad. I tried so many different met...

(10) DaNice D Marshall | 2 months ago

I’m not a rocket scientist, but I think I need to pay close attention to Higgs Boson. Higgs Boson is commonly known by scientist as “God's Particle”. Some physicist...

(4) Kimberly Michalski | about 1 month ago

As much as I wanted to plant a vegetable garden this year, husband convinced me that we would not have time to maintain it. Not a tomato plant one, found a home in my res...

(0) Karen & Gerard | 2 months ago

Well, today has been very crazy unlike a week ago when I had a "Wonderful Wednesday"! The wackiness started this morning before I even got up. I had an early morning nigh...

(4) B The Gossip Girl | 2 months ago

I pass time in the afternoon gazing out of my office window jealous of the folks enjoying the beautiful temperatures at the park across the street. Today an odd girl cau