My children are an inspiration to me:
My son worked out, by ear, how to play “Happy Birthday” on his cello, and performed it for my birthday yesterday.
My daughter has written the first 1500 words of an entertaining and surprisingly sophisticated story.
How lucky can a guy get?

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Jana: It’s in Aliso Vi-yay-jo.
John: That was cute. Say that again.
Jana: Say what?
John: In Aliso Viejo, you added a vowel.
Jana: It’s my dipthong.
Thinks.
Jana: I should make a thong with a ‘dip’ on it. I bet they’d sell.
John: You could market them to linguists. Cunning ones.

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My sense of rapprochement with religion is struggling with the current row between the European newspapers and the Islamic world over the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad. I admit that the cartoons promoted negative stereotypes (which is within the purview of satire) of Muslims. I acknowledge that they were deeply offensive to most […]

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Hello Kitty Sushi
One word: Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuute!
Craftster.org.
DIY Mecca. For you Mo’s out there, think Homemaking (not Enrichment) meets punk rock.
Dear Sarah OpenType Font.
Swoon. If only I had 120 extra little George Washingtons…

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