The suggestion for inspiration on the Inspire Me Thursday website is “in good company”. Lon Chaney Jr. was in good company with Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and his father, Lon Chaney Sr. However, Lon Chaney Jr. is the only actor to have played all four major Universal Monsters.
This week’s inspirational word on Inspire Me Thursday is “chair”. My brother was born in 1957. The Pincus family was a nice, sweet, calm family for four and a half years. Then little Josh was born and all hell broke loose. It began when I was brought home from the hospital. My parents thought it …
The word of inspiration on the Inspire Me Thursday illustration blog is “pear”. The poor pear. The pear has always gotten a raw deal. It’s been treated as a second-class fruit the red-headed stepchild of the produce world. New York City is “The Big Apple”, not the “Big Pear”. An endearing term for a …
The word of inspiration on Inspire Me Thursday is “cupcake”. As mentioned many, many times on this blog, I love going to Disney theme parks. I went to Walt Disney World for the first time when I was nineteen. My wife and I went to Walt Disney World on our honeymoon. We took our son …
The ispirational word this week on the InspireMeThursday website is “holes”. “There’s nothing wrong with you that a gaping hole drilled into your skull under unsanitary conditions couldn’t cure.” Trepanation. An innocent enough sounding term. Trepanation is an antiquated and misguided medical procedure in which a hole is drilled into the human skull, thus exposing the meningeal layers surrounding …
The inspirational word this week on Inspire Me Thursday is “glasses”. Although he had been to countless Oktoberfest celebrations, Günther could never get the hang of clinking glasses.
The inspirational word on Inspire Me Thursday this week is “owl”. Despite his claims of being a night owl, Stanley fell asleep in the spinach-artichoke dip at 7:18 pm.
The word of inspiration on Inspire Me Thursday is “cheeks”. When Harpo Marx was a kid in New York, he perfected “The Gookie” his signature, sure-fire, laugh-getting face. Harpo worked “The Gookie” into every comedy act and movie for his entire career. The face involving the puffing of the cheeks, the crossing of …
The word of inspiration this week on the Inspire Me Thursday website is “chalk”. They’re out to get you, better leave while you can Don’t wanna be a boy, you wanna be a man, You wanna stay alive, better do what you can So beat it, just beat it
The Inspire Me Thursday inspirational word this week is “ticket”. I live in Philadelphia and I’ve been going to baseball games for a very long time. I struggled alongside the struggling Phillies in those years in the late ’90s when they out-and-out stunk! I also sat in the stands as the Phillies fought their way …
