Recent content by Della

I heard Harlan Coben talking about it on NPR and it sounded like the two of them had a ball from start to finish. First she called him and he was tickled to get a call from her, though he hadn't met her. She had an idea for a novel and he thought it was a fine one. So he wrote it, but used...

No. Never. I was so bad in grade school, once I had to stand in front of the class and sing and act, "I'm a Little Teapot," as punishment for yet another failed spelling test. It's strange because I started reading at age four and have read about 100 books a year ever since. I did hear...

I wasn't recommending that anyone do it, that they deserved it, or that I would do it. All I'm saying is that by calling such attention to their car they are almost daring certain types (teenage boys, jealous people etc.) to key their car. In other words, I believe parking that way increases...

"Wuthering Heights" Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. I am a big fan of Oberon and I think her acting in this is absolutely superb. Then of course there are the brilliant lines written by Emily Bronte and the lavish, dramatic production. One of the very best pictures from the Golden Age of...

It always seems to me like they're just begging for their car to get keyed.

Credence Clearwater Revival

They're starting to eliminate gas stoves in parts of Ohio. The new builds are almost all electric. I grew up with a gas stove and burned a lot of things when I first had an electric one. These days, I have a new electric stove with burners that have 11 or 12 settings on each dial called...

As soon as I saw the thread title I knew it must have been written by someone other than an American. "Station in life?" We don't have stations, just people born poor or born middle class or born rich and where they are now has to do with how hard they tried, or misfortune, or inheritance or...

I purposely use up every last thing in my pantry and freezer at the end of every year, just to be sure nothing goes out of date. So right now I'm lower than usual, but we did refill a lot last week, so we could probably last a month, but it would mean lots of pasta meals, burritos, peanut...

19 in Ohio this morning. My poor little 7lb hairless Dachshund had to go out in the snow up to her hoo hah to do her business. I pity her, but not enough to let her use her preferred spot under the dining room table. It's 4 in Minnesota and I would think that would make everybody on all sides...

Oh yeah, I just played a few minutes of it and couldn't go on, I think it might be hitting the same ear nerve as M of M. I hadn't heard it in so long I had forgot all about it and probably never knew it's name. When I see "Baker Street," I think of this which I like:

I'm glad I'm not alone with "Mull of Kintyre." I was afraid to copy Holly's post of it for fear it would start up. I heard it first about a year ago and it tweaked something in my poor old brain and would not stop playing. I would wake up at night and there it would be. I kind of hate Paul...

It's not just the news media that depicts Christians as far right wing bigots but our movies, books, and TV's. A whole generation has grown up watching Dana Carvey's Church Lady and greedy televangelists and never once attending a real church. They have no idea what really goes on in today's...

I say it myself sometimes. It's always been on forums and I write it, 'kay. It's usually my one word reply after a long post explaining why I'm wrong about something while using straw man arguments and "they say" as their fact source.