woman trades two kids for exotic bird

by | Mar 3, 2009 | Life, Parenting

Kevin McGill reported for the story for the Associated Press. Here are the highlights. “NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana woman is accused of trading two young children in her care for a pet cockatoo and $175 cash from a couple who had been trying for years...

March 3 in history

by | Mar 3, 2009 | Life

Don’t you love those sites where you can see what happened on a certain date in history? Just this morning I read the NY Times page online that gives various events from this day, March 3.  Couple of airline crashes; one in 1974 and one in 1991. I remember the...

nutter butter banana pudding

by | Feb 24, 2009 | Life, Marriage, Sex

There it is right on the cover of the February 2009 issue of Southern Living magazine. The title and the picture; a banana pudding made with nutter butters instead of vanilla wafers. According to Nabisco’s web site, there are a billion calories, all from fat, in...

stressful times

by | Feb 19, 2009 | Life

Yesterday morning I sat in a doctor’s waiting room as Alice was in for a checkup. Like most guys, I hate waiting and it was even worse yesterday because they had a new widescreen HDTV on the wall. I looove those High Definition televisions and every time I see...

obama

by | Feb 5, 2009 | God, Life, Uncategorized

Last summer Alice cashed in about-to-expire airline miles for a plethora of magazine subscriptions. We thought she only signed up for about twenty, but based on the looks the postman has been throwing our way, I think the actual number may be somewhere closer to...