Of Sticks & Stones & Other Forgotten Proverbs
I never set out to become the local apologist for Boys Behaving Badly in Hollywood, but that Bizarro World of upside-down priorities just keeps dishing out stuff that’s too good to pass up.
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Author: Margaret Evans
Looking For A Few Good Role Models
Jeff and I were watching “Scarborough Country” on MSNBC last Friday, when who should appear on screen – again – but Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Wearing identical platinum hair extensions, sky-high stilettos, and matching spandex wristbands (as skirts!), they slid into the back of a limo, where they proceeded to whisper and giggle for the camera. My five-year-old daughter, on the floor with a jigsaw puzzle, was mesmerized.
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Just Words?
I was at Pigeon Point Park the other day, watching my five-year-old spinning away on the merry-go-round ad nauseam (my nauseam, not hers) and chatting with a woman I’d just met, another mom who happens to be a teacher at a local elementary school. We were discussing the recent reopening of Waterfront Park, specifically wondering when the playground might be ready for business. We both agreed that the new park was looking good; then my companion added, “I hope it don’t get tore up again, or nothin’.”
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Celebrate with Catering by Debbi Covington
