Archive For The “Here I Am” Category

The Situational Environmentalist

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The Situational Environmentalist

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn’t done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit’s eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson’s eyes and ask him if it hurts….

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Lottery Fantasy

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Lottery Fantasy

Being emotionally rich everyday has the power to produce all other riches. –  Hiral Nagda $1,745,000 2 bd 3 ba 1,116 sq ft 828 Duval St, Key West, FL 33040 A sale is “pending.” There has been previous pending. I deny I purchased three tickets and claimed I was in the market for a business opportunity. Have this fantasy…

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Immersive Charlotte

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Immersive Charlotte

It is good to love many things, for therein lies strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done. – Vincent Van Gogh Dawn. Take the dogs to the kennel. Bust out of house arrest. We headed for the first place anybody would think…

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Happy Grandparents’ Day

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Happy Grandparents’ Day

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She’s ninety-seven now, and we don’t know where the heck she is. – Ellen DeGeneres As you might well expect, I am childless. Still getting calls about my student loans a half century after graduation, didn’t think I could afford offspring. And then there’s…

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How Can I Prevent Abortion?

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How Can I Prevent Abortion?

I locked myself out of my car next to an abortion clinic… It was really awkward asking them for a hanger. 8 Abortion Prevention Tips by Amy Otto 4/6/2015 for The Federalist. [Really.] Sarah Silverman recently shared some rape prevention tips. Here’s some for preventing abortion. Sarah Silverman recently found humor in sharing these rape…

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Three Types Of Terror (A Children’s Campfire Story)

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Three Types Of Terror (A Children’s Campfire Story)

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. – Stephen King The 3 types of terror are The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it’s when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. Then there’s The Horror: the unnatural,…

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My Dead Little Brother’s Birthday

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My Dead Little Brother’s Birthday

Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. – Jack Kerouac July 17. This date in history. My dead little brother’s birthday was July 17th. Michael Charles Welch was born on July 17th, 1948. Sad, I know. The year after Jack Kerouac got on the road. July 17, 1947. I…

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Fifteen Years In Witness Protection. Hurricane Headed Straight To The Trailer

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Fifteen Years In Witness Protection. Hurricane Headed Straight To The Trailer

If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too, et cetera, etc. – Rudyard Kipling Like a small team I can trust. So the wife and I we work alone. Together. If…

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People Who Say They Know What They’re Doin’

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People Who Say They Know What They’re Doin’

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot… for he sees what no one else does; things that, to everyone else, are not there. – Marshall McLuhan People who say they know what they’re doin’ usually don’t. ‘Cause if they did they wouldn’t have to tell you they did. They…

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All I Remember Of A Dream

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All I Remember Of A Dream

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde When I came down the stairs for breakfast, the table was already crowded. Poe, Buddha, Michelangelo, Hitler, young Amelia in…

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