Tag: writer
member name: Jackie Papandrew
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May 12, 2008 07:11 AM EDT --
I was in a public restroom the other day, doing what one does in such places, when I realized that civilization - even the fairly savage form of civilization that has existed since Janet Jackson's . . .
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April 28, 2008 07:41 AM EDT --
Ever since I can recall, my dad has been telling The Pig Story. He tells it with great flourish and over the years, he's perfected a series of coy pauses and soft smiles, delivered at just the . . .
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January 25, 2008 07:45 AM EST --
In honor of Season 7 of American Idol, here's something I wrote in an earlier season of idol insanity...
Now that we are deeply embedded, as a nation, in yet another season of the cultural . . .
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May 19, 2008 02:03 AM EDT --
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out -- Rodney Dangerfield
Every once in a while, in a blinding moment of clarity that fortunately doesn't last long, I realize . . .
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November 13, 2007 02:29 PM EST --
One of the most gratifying things about being a grandparent has got to be those moments when life comes full circle -- when your grown children, those who gave you so much grief as teenagers – . . .
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December 17, 2007 09:33 AM EST --
It's funny how one's self-image tends to stay frozen in time. Your mind picks out a moment when you looked your best, sometimes a moment that occurred many moons (and many pounds) ago, and it . . .
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February 04, 2008 11:31 AM EST --
To celebrate the end of football season, I've posted something I wrote back at the beginning of yet another season of insanity...
Anybody who watches three games of football in . . .
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January 06, 2008 07:30 PM EST --
I hear tell the road to hell is paved with good intentions
And Mama my intentions were the best -- Randy Travis in "Good Intentions"
Mark Twain once suggested . . .
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December 10, 2007 11:45 AM EST --
It came without ribbons! It came without tags!
It came without packages, boxes or bags!
And he puzzled three hours, ‘till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t . . .
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