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1. 5 days ago on Cul de Sac

   The story of my life, listening to school closing numbers: 651, 652, 654… dang it!

2. 5 days ago on Stone Soup

   I like that idea, but somehow doubt the recipients would.

3. 5 days ago on Stone Soup

   Nooo, I was the cake baker growing up, but mastering my mom’s pie crust, & baking cookies without burning? No so skilled.

4. 6 days ago on Baldo

   Yes, a real tug on the ol’ heartstrings.

5. 6 days ago on Luann

   I think the latter, but the former is funnier, imo.

6. 6 days ago on Luann

   LOL

7. 6 days ago on Luann

   “Besides wrapping paper and boxes can be saved and reused at least once.” A family tradition in our household, which extended to gift bags once most of us got tired to wrestling with rolls of wrap & tape.

8. 6 days ago on Luann

   Keep in mind that it isn’t that teachers wanted to stop teaching cursive, it’s that “writing” instruction now includes teaching (& assessing incessantly) how to respond to open-ended questions and writing paragraphs and multiple page typed essays, so where we learned cursive, they’ve been having keyboarding classes since K-1st. When I was teaching, we’d have to explain that reality not only to grandparents, but sometimes parents – who grew up taking the state tests, but before corporations took over public education curricula (cough! Common Core)- and assessments. We always told them we were grateful if they wanted to reinforce the smattering of cursive instruction we did in class – it’s still a rite of passage for kids, who love to use the cursive fonts on the computer.

9. 6 days ago on Non Sequitur

   ""Ee’s NOT the Messiah! “Ee’s a very naughty boy!!!”

10. 6 days ago on Non Sequitur

    That movie is in a class by itself.