My dd was practically born with a book in her hand. She LOVED reading and was reading on a college level when she was in 3rd grade. My son actually taught himself to read using the computer and DVD subtitles when he was about 2yrs old. So I was shocked that he didn't want to read anything that wasn't computer game instructions! It was like pulling teeth to get Chris to read back then. I tried covering up most of the page so he could only see a line at a time. He knew words that were well beyond his years but he just didn't want to read. Then we found a series of books that were well below his...
Ever felt like your designer labels weren't showing? Last week my dd had to return a blouse she received for Christmas from a relative. It didn't fit so we took off for another one of our mother/daughter excursions. We had several of these special days when she was home from college over the Christmas holiday. It was quite a little drive to the mall. It's not a place we frequent as it's too far, hard to park, crowded and rather pricey. But it was a mother/daughter adventure and so off we went. We walked up to the Nordstrom cashier and my dd told the woman she wanted to return the blouse because it didn't fit. The woman asked if my...
It's time for your Friday Giggle! Communication FUNdamentals is proud to present this week's Friday Funny: So many of you send me Friday Funny material from "real life" and I thank you. I've had newsletter subscribers send in some funny things their kidlings have said, blog readers send in pictures of street signs that should have been better thought out and this week's Friday Funny comes from my dad! Thanks Dad! This was in a story on the AP Wire: "The young Nigerian man was due in federal court Friday afternoon for his arraignment on charges that he failed to detonate a chemical-laden explosive on the Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight." Let me get this straight. He is charged with failing...
Does your hair talk to you? Mine does and it all started.... One score and three years ago, my hairdresser brought forth upon my mane a new hairdo conceived in brevity and dedicated to the proposition that not all haircuts are created equal. You see I had long hair when I got married. It was down to the middle of my back and my new husband just loved it long. So about a month and a half after our wedding, I went to a salon for a trim and I told the hairdresser to take the back up to just below my shoulders. As was my custom, I took off my glasses and let her do her thing. Big mistake! ...
English is a crazy language that wound up with wounds of wisdom. Does it sound right to you that our houses don’t have mouses? Why can we oversee what we cannot overlook? It seems something is not “in wack”, but fat chance trying to work it out-or would that be a slim one? If we slow down for just a minute, we will clearly see that we cannot slow up-or keep up with the strange rules which cause a wise man not to be a wise guy. It also doesn’t follow that we talk about gooses which are really geese, but never about mooses which are definitely not meese. If I had my way, everything would be spelled “foneticly” and...
