This week’s Illustration Friday word is “sight”. The assassination of President Kennedy was a traumatic event for the generation before mine. Everyone knew where they were, what they were doing and who they were with when they heard the terrible news that the president was shot In a Dallas motorcade. It was something they would never forget. …
The current Illustration Friday challenge word is “kernel”. “Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn’t pop. I’ll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.” Orville Redenbacher In 1951, 44-year old Orville Redenbacher and his partner …
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “hitched”. “Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “jump”. Two soldiers who were in boot camp together meet out on maneuvers. “Hey, I heard you joined the paratrooper division.,” the first recruit says, “Pretty impressive.” “Yeah.” answers his colleague, “Last week we went up for our first jump.” “Great! So, how did that go?” “Well, they …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “heights”. I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. Cyrano De Bergerac
This week’s Illustration Friday word is “puzzled”. This is one of two illustration that fit the topic. HERE is the other. Where ever she was — whether it was on the front lawn with the other evacuees or in her home watching it all unfold on the live local news coverage — Robyn Anderson was …
In the end, Wendy O. Williams had just about enough of the world’s shit. As a child in Webster, New York, Wendy was a student of music, studying the clarinet and even making an appearance on The Howdy Doody Show. At 16, she ditched school and hitchhiked her way across the country, selling crocheted bikinis …
This week’s Illustration Friday challenge word is “return”. “I’d like to return this here circular saw. …And this here fielder’s glove.”
For years, my wife has been in pursuit of the perfect hamburger. While a lot of carnivores share this quest, it should be noted that Mrs. Pincus has kept a strictly kosher diet for over forty years. Eating kosher meat within the privacy of one’s home is a fairly easy task. At one time, a …
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This week’s challenge word on the Illustration Friday website is “swamp”. “Well, Dr. Holland, I see by your resumé that after securing employment as a research scientist, you spent the next twenty-seven years in the position of ‘Swamp Thing’. Is that correct?” * * * * * This post marks the fifth anniversary of the josh …
