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Lori Duff June 17, 2013 at 08:57 pm
Thanks! My family is a sitcom. I would write more about them, but I don't want to make anyone mad.
Wendy Fine June 18, 2013 at 02:13 am
I can just picture it and, yes, your family sure is a sitcom and that's why I love you. I can SO…Read More relate!
Tammy Osier June 17, 2013 at 09:45 pm
Loved Monster's INC. Great message. Can't wait for the new one to come out. I'm going with all 6…Read More grandkids and my grown kids.
I think all of us can adopt the attitude that we are our brother's keeper and be the umbrella they need.
Tammy Osier June 16, 2013 at 08:34 pm
The above pdf is my Dad, myself and some other members of my family. From the blog post _Daddy said…Read More it, I believe it, and that settles it!:
http://loganville.patch.com/blog_posts/i-was-raised-by-an-opinionated-southern-gentlemandaddy-said-it-i-believe-it-and-that-settles-it
Tammy Osier June 16, 2013 at 08:39 pm
My Dad worked two jobs for most of my life, but always managed to spend his spare time with the…Read More "little people" in the family. My Dad taught me about dedication to family.
Sharon Swanepoel (Editor) June 15, 2013 at 01:51 pm
I'm with you on the dandelions Jason - just had to trim mine. But since I got my Jeep Liberty on…Read More Friday - I just can't bring myself to find anything to rant about!
Amy L June 15, 2013 at 07:14 pm
I have another rant about slow drivers. The intersection with the ramps to Sugarloaf Parkway from…Read More New Hope road is the only opportunity there is to pass anyone as you travel east or west on New Hope. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE remember slower traffic keep right and give someone who isn't a scared old myopic grandmother a chance to pass you. Otherwise, I'll be riding your a55 and fuming all the way up to Lawrenceville.
Tammy Osier June 17, 2013 at 06:59 pm
Traffic rants aren't making traffic get better... So, here's one that I think will resonate with…Read More many people. When you've signed up for something new, your computer doesn't recognize your passwords right away, so tell you that the password you just put in isn't recognized. Then, you have to do it umpteen times til it lets you in. I've had to do this so many times it's unreal. For a while, my student loan account made me change my password every time I logged in. I don't quite understand why that one is so secure. What is somebody going to do, go in there and pay my bill? There's no money to be had, that's for sure.
Tammy Osier June 18, 2013 at 12:09 am
Funny how we spend the early parts of our lives trying to be anything but like our parents, and then…Read More when we learn what life is really about, we realize how much we need to be like them.
North Georgia Weather June 15, 2013 at 08:30 am
You can find the latest NWS Public Information Statements here:…Read More
http://www.daculaweather.com/4_pis_ffc.php
tijensen June 15, 2013 at 12:34 pm
The better assignment would have been how could you have written a letter to try and convince them…Read More not to commit suicide. To persuade them about all the wonderful things you love about them, how special they are and what the world would miss if they were not in it. A creative teacher could have used the same exercise to teach a life lesson that may have helped someone save a life down the road.
Tammy Osier June 15, 2013 at 12:40 pm
TJ, exactly. Like you said, a GOOD teacher would have found a way to make students think outside the…Read More box yet still examine the mood of the story. But I do agree with ggy that it might have been more appropriate for a college aged student. High school (girls especially) have so much drama going on inside of them, and confusion about so many things, that it might be impossible for them to be objective in an assignment like that. Boo to the teacher.
flyinby June 15, 2013 at 08:34 pm
strikes me as more subversive attempts by perverted minds dedicated to influence all our children…Read More with this sick mindset:
http://larouchepac.com/node/11188
http://www.naturalnews.com/040744_euthanasia_children_mercy_killings.html
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/06/sarah-palin-blasts-sebelius-for-denying-girls-lifesaving-lung-transplant/
http://cnsnews.com/blog/judie-brown/lives-unworthy-be-lived-and-polst
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/the-elite-are-attempting-to-convince-us-that-killing-off-our-sick-grandparents-is-cool-and-trendy
suicides higher than car crashes past few yrs http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207089/56-million-suicide-prevention-programme-launched-study-reveals-Americans-lives-die-car-crashes.html
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/08/more-states-consider-legalizing-assisted-suicide-as-baby-boomers-age/
Tammy Osier June 15, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Well, Dave, back in those days that was what a man did. He did the best he knew to do by his family…Read More which was his expression of love for his family. My Dad sometimes worked two jobs too. but at the shop, at least in the 60's, he was sometimes 10 getting home. Father's and daughters have a different relationship than fathers with their sons and vice versa. He worked weekends, so his day off was on Thursday. He'd get me, not my brother up to go fishing. I asked one time why not my brother and he said, 'He doesn't like to fish like you do". He found other things to do with my brother such as paying for him to play ball. So, I think money played a big role in showing affection for fathers to their sons. But you know Dave, Dad's did that so that we would have our Mom's at home. Our generation had an advantage that this one doesn't in that respect.
Diane Lynch June 15, 2013 at 03:00 pm
This brought tears to my eyes. THANK you for your work--it's simply impeccable writing. Help, how do…Read More I post this specific piece on fb? Just copy and paste? :) Diane
Tammy Osier June 15, 2013 at 03:43 pm
Diane L., Do you mean, how do you post this on Facebook? If so, look just above the comment section…Read More and there's a place to forward. Diane, I started writing when my children were small. I put my "career" on hold while raising them, and one by one wrote stories that spoke to something about each one of them. I wrote The Dress about character being built in my daughter while growing up poor, The Time Capsule about the frustrations (and joys) of raising a 14 yr. old boy, and Rites of Passage about my oldest daughter's first job making money (also about character). Click on my name and you can read those. I love to share these stories as they were written during times of struggle and gave me a way to appreciate the thing I DID have. I'm especially close to my Dad since my mother died in a tragic car accident when I was 12. Luckily, I already had that bond formed. My Dad is special and is 80, with cancer. I go see him as often as possible. I guess you'd say, for a girl, that her father is her first love. :)
Crystal Huskey (Editor) June 13, 2013 at 10:28 pm
The kids got him a "greatest dad" coffee mug... LOL.
Tammy Osier June 13, 2013 at 08:38 pm
I was never blessed up top so had to keep my bottom half together so that there wouldn't be such a…Read More great contrast if I gains weight (the poor females in my family have the pear shape). I agree that one reason women probably are proud of them, is that most women will suffer big-butt syndrome for most of their adult lives (why does food go straight there???), and having big ones evens it out and takes the eyes away from what we don't want anyone to notice. I never quite got why men put so much stock in them when they don't DO anything. All the action goes on elsewhere. Although, that explains a lot about what they say about men, that if you cut them open you couldn't tell which was their brain and which ...went...uh...elsewhere since they think with both ends. lol
David Binder June 14, 2013 at 04:21 am
I'm thinking I'm glad you didn't ask my opinion on this. I would have been totally honest of course,…Read More but you may not have been able to print it here. LOL !! Proud to be part of your 98%
North Georgia Weather June 17, 2013 at 07:09 pm
Tammy, there is a cell over Lithonia right now that is headed your way, should be there within 30…Read More minutes.
I created a new blog post for today and tomorrow:
http://dacula.patch.com/blog_posts/wet-day-or-two
Kristi Reed (Editor) June 17, 2013 at 10:39 pm
The devil was beating his wife here too for a while, but now it is just cloudy with about 110…Read More percent humidity.
Lynn Halverson June 13, 2013 at 03:25 pm
How fun is this? To get the scoop from a theater newbie! We love you in Bo!
Octo Slash June 14, 2013 at 12:18 pm
My kids drink coffee every morning because they need something to accompany their cigarettes.
Tammy Osier June 14, 2013 at 01:12 pm
Tr - the perfect diet - the Mediterranean diet has a lot of fish in it. Olive oils etc... Our…Read More American diet has a lot of animal fat in it and look at us as opposed to other nations! Fish oil is brain food. A multi is good, but we should ask our pediatricians about adding fish oil to our kids' diets. We should get our (good) fats through diet. Good fats help vitamins go where they are supposed to and do what they're supposed to do.
Deedee June 15, 2013 at 08:12 pm
My grandma always drunk coffee all day and I started around 30 and I am no good without at least one…Read More cup a day but she always stated that we couldn't have any as kids because it will stunt our growth. I have always felt that there is something to many of those old sayings and did not let my son touch it.
Athens Area Humane Society June 17, 2013 at 09:12 pm
She actually went to the Atlanta Doberman Pincher Rescue today! They are going to post her as an…Read More adoptable dog, but the people who run the rescue plan to keep her in their personal home whether or not someone adopts her. They're also going to give her a full vet work-up to find out more specifically about her cancer.
Tammy Osier June 14, 2013 at 01:30 am
I guess this makes me a promoter...…Read More
http://loganville.patch.com/blog_posts/i-was-raised-by-an-opinionated-southern-gentlemandaddy-said-it-i-believe-it-and-that-settles-it
Tammy Osier June 14, 2013 at 01:32 am
..and this one...
http://loganville.patch.com/blog_posts/youre-a-native-of-atlanta-if-you-remember?
Tammy Osier June 17, 2013 at 06:29 pm
There were a few things on the paper that I found that I was not familiar with. Maybe some of you…Read More might be.
I do remember the Top O Peachtree restaurant,
I do not remember Soapbox Derby races (Well, vaguely)
I vaguely remember the Ted Turner Ostrich races
Same with the Disco Kroger
I do remember winning goldfish at Paces Fair
I do remember Cannonball Butler, Claude Humphrey and Tommy Nobis and Hershel Walker
I don't remember the great Speckled Bird
I do remember the stores in the triangle shaped property between the Roxy and Aunt Charlie's
Tammy Osier June 17, 2013 at 07:48 pm
As I was re-reading these, and noted the chain link fence, how many remember these highways only…Read More being two lanes?
Wet Day or Two
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