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Son and Father
I have had my hands and head full the few days and I nearly skipped-out of this week’s blog,( for the first time). Then I realized that this is my first anniversary with” Four Foxes, One Hound” and I just … Continue reading
Posted in childhood, Jeff Salter, Tonette Joyce, writing, youth
Tagged Afghanistan, Air National Guard, beach, beach vacations, blogging, child's view of fatherhood, children's insight, Colorado, family, fatgher/son relations, fatherhood, fathers, fathers and sons, fathers day, Florida, interviews, Jeff Salter, Jonathan Dominic Skube jr, memorial day, memories, potato cannon, school, service in Iraq, Southern Kentucky Bookfest, The Bella Series, trips to the beach, vacations, violin student, Webelos Scouts, zoo
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Whoo-Whoo, End of School!
We are talking about memories of the last days of school. Mine were pretty much the same all through elementary school, which for me consisted of grades first through sixth. Almost no one I knew attended Kindergarten, which were all … Continue reading
Car-ing, Not Caring
Open Week and I don’t have a guest, no stories or articles published recently,(want to see my newest rejection slip? It’s a badge of honor; I’m ‘out there’.) And I don’t want to talk about a work in progress. I … Continue reading
Posted in Tonette Joyce
Tagged automobiles, Blazer, Caprice, carburators, cars, grandchildren, grandsons, husband. Jaguar cars, internal cobustion engines, Little Old Lady From Pasadena, published articles, ragtops, rejection slips, rocket engines., science class, science teachers, sentimentality, sons, sporty cars, teachers
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Throw Mama from the Train a Kiss
Jillian-the-Fox keeps inspiring my posts, (which is strange, because I know she doesn’t like writing prompts), and her post this week about her mother in NYC reminded me of my mother’s New York tales. This one involves my mother and … Continue reading
Posted in Tonette Joyce
Tagged children, family, grandmothers, immigrants, Italian language, Italy, Mothers, New York City, Pennsylvania, secretaries, Throw Mama from the Train a Kiss, time, trains
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Mooning Over the Moon
The Moon, it conjures all sorts of ideas. From folklore to folk wisdom, every culture knows or believes in the Moon’s influences in everything from tides to moods. Even those beliefs that may not have scientific basis are real in … Continue reading
Posted in romance, Tonette Joyce
Tagged Andy Williams Andy Williams' Show, anti-war songs, Beethovan's Moonlight Sonata, Bing Crosby, Blue Moon, Blue Moon of Kentucky, Carlo Buti, Country music., dancing in the moonlight, Dark Moon, Diddle Diddle, Dubussey's Claire de Lune, Elvis, Enterprise, Fly Me to the Moon, Frank Sinatra, Full Moon and Empty Arms, Gale Storm, German language, Hey, Internationalculture, Irish revolutionary songs, King Harvest, Lt.Uhura, Luna Roas, Marcels, Moon River, Mr.Spock, music, Nursery Rhymes, Oh, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2, revolutionary songs, satellites, songs, Star Trek, Susanna, The Capris, the Earth, The Moon, The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The Rising of theon, the Sun, There's a Moon Out Tonight, Vulcan, Wynken and Blyken and Nod, Yellow River
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The Amen of Nature Is Always a Flower (O.W. Holmes)
We’re talking about favorite flowers and gosh, how do you choose? I love flowers. I prefer them growing, either those that I plant, those in other people’s gardens, parks or wildflowers on the sides of the road. Like the “Newcomers” … Continue reading
Posted in Friendship, Tonette Joyce
Tagged "Newcomers", 'Man of the cloth", Alien Nation movie, cultivated flowers, Dutch flowers, floral arrangements, florists, flower gardens, flowers, flowers of Holland, friendship, FTD florists, Indonesia, The Netherlands, the priesthood, travel, wildflowers
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Have an Environmental Plan? Can It!
With Earth Day upon us, we are thinking about the environment and what we can do to help save the planet…sounds ominous, but true. Maybe, just maybe, each of us doing a little can help…factories around the world not withstanding. … Continue reading
Posted in Tonette Joyce
Tagged charity donations, crafts, curbside recycling, decoupage, decoupage canisters, Earth day, ecologically-sound crafts, environment, environmentally sound crafts, make-your-own TV dinners, PUR water filters, recycle/reduce/reuse, recycling, reduce waste, reuseable grocery sacks, reusing grocery sacks, Save the Planet
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Book ‘Em,Grando
This week were asked to expound on what we’d do with a $5,000 tax refund…may as well $5mil for the likelihood, but we’ll go with it. It got a bit scary here when I realized the actual need I had … Continue reading
Interview with Author David Parmelee
This is one of our promo weeks and I couldn’t be happier to introduce you to David Parmelee and his first published novel, “The Sea Is a Thief” The Sea Is a Thief Authored by David Parmelee List Price: $14.95 … Continue reading
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