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Lori Duff June 17, 2013 at 08:57 pm
Thanks! My family is a sitcom. I would write more about them, but I don't want to make anyone mad.
Wendy Fine June 18, 2013 at 02:13 am
I can just picture it and, yes, your family sure is a sitcom and that's why I love you. I can SO…Read More relate!
Tammy Osier June 17, 2013 at 09:45 pm
Loved Monster's INC. Great message. Can't wait for the new one to come out. I'm going with all 6…Read More grandkids and my grown kids.
I think all of us can adopt the attitude that we are our brother's keeper and be the umbrella they need.
Tammy Osier June 16, 2013 at 08:34 pm
The above pdf is my Dad, myself and some other members of my family. From the blog post _Daddy said…Read More it, I believe it, and that settles it!:
http://loganville.patch.com/blog_posts/i-was-raised-by-an-opinionated-southern-gentlemandaddy-said-it-i-believe-it-and-that-settles-it
Tammy Osier June 16, 2013 at 08:39 pm
My Dad worked two jobs for most of my life, but always managed to spend his spare time with the…Read More "little people" in the family. My Dad taught me about dedication to family.
Amy L June 15, 2013 at 07:14 pm
I have another rant about slow drivers. The intersection with the ramps to Sugarloaf Parkway from…Read More New Hope road is the only opportunity there is to pass anyone as you travel east or west on New Hope. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE remember slower traffic keep right and give someone who isn't a scared old myopic grandmother a chance to pass you. Otherwise, I'll be riding your a55 and fuming all the way up to Lawrenceville.
Tammy Osier June 17, 2013 at 06:59 pm
Traffic rants aren't making traffic get better... So, here's one that I think will resonate with…Read More many people. When you've signed up for something new, your computer doesn't recognize your passwords right away, so tell you that the password you just put in isn't recognized. Then, you have to do it umpteen times til it lets you in. I've had to do this so many times it's unreal. For a while, my student loan account made me change my password every time I logged in. I don't quite understand why that one is so secure. What is somebody going to do, go in there and pay my bill? There's no money to be had, that's for sure.
Jim Stephenson June 19, 2013 at 07:10 pm
I take the bus to work, so I don't have a traffic rant..well, maybe those silly people who cut the…Read More bus off and make the driver hit the brakes and wake me up!
Tammy Osier June 18, 2013 at 12:09 am
Funny how we spend the early parts of our lives trying to be anything but like our parents, and then…Read More when we learn what life is really about, we realize how much we need to be like them.
North Georgia Weather June 15, 2013 at 08:30 am
You can find the latest NWS Public Information Statements here:…Read More
http://www.daculaweather.com/4_pis_ffc.php
Good Grief Y'all June 19, 2013 at 07:45 pm
All good points, Skalawag. I think bullying is a big problem with teens. When people are bullied…Read More they either become depressed and introverted or they become bullies themselves. We have examples all around us ;)
" the government phobic response" . . . good one and a perfect description of so very many comments on Patch.
TheSkalawag June 19, 2013 at 07:50 pm
As usual Dave all you have are complaints about possible solutions but NO solutions of your own to…Read More offer.
Tammy Osier June 15, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Well, Dave, back in those days that was what a man did. He did the best he knew to do by his family…Read More which was his expression of love for his family. My Dad sometimes worked two jobs too. but at the shop, at least in the 60's, he was sometimes 10 getting home. Father's and daughters have a different relationship than fathers with their sons and vice versa. He worked weekends, so his day off was on Thursday. He'd get me, not my brother up to go fishing. I asked one time why not my brother and he said, 'He doesn't like to fish like you do". He found other things to do with my brother such as paying for him to play ball. So, I think money played a big role in showing affection for fathers to their sons. But you know Dave, Dad's did that so that we would have our Mom's at home. Our generation had an advantage that this one doesn't in that respect.
Diane Lynch June 15, 2013 at 03:00 pm
This brought tears to my eyes. THANK you for your work--it's simply impeccable writing. Help, how do…Read More I post this specific piece on fb? Just copy and paste? :) Diane
Tammy Osier June 15, 2013 at 03:43 pm
Diane L., Do you mean, how do you post this on Facebook? If so, look just above the comment section…Read More and there's a place to forward. Diane, I started writing when my children were small. I put my "career" on hold while raising them, and one by one wrote stories that spoke to something about each one of them. I wrote The Dress about character being built in my daughter while growing up poor, The Time Capsule about the frustrations (and joys) of raising a 14 yr. old boy, and Rites of Passage about my oldest daughter's first job making money (also about character). Click on my name and you can read those. I love to share these stories as they were written during times of struggle and gave me a way to appreciate the thing I DID have. I'm especially close to my Dad since my mother died in a tragic car accident when I was 12. Luckily, I already had that bond formed. My Dad is special and is 80, with cancer. I go see him as often as possible. I guess you'd say, for a girl, that her father is her first love. :)
Tammy Osier June 13, 2013 at 08:38 pm
I was never blessed up top so had to keep my bottom half together so that there wouldn't be such a…Read More great contrast if I gains weight (the poor females in my family have the pear shape). I agree that one reason women probably are proud of them, is that most women will suffer big-butt syndrome for most of their adult lives (why does food go straight there???), and having big ones evens it out and takes the eyes away from what we don't want anyone to notice. I never quite got why men put so much stock in them when they don't DO anything. All the action goes on elsewhere. Although, that explains a lot about what they say about men, that if you cut them open you couldn't tell which was their brain and which ...went...uh...elsewhere since they think with both ends. lol
David Binder June 14, 2013 at 04:21 am
I'm thinking I'm glad you didn't ask my opinion on this. I would have been totally honest of course,…Read More but you may not have been able to print it here. LOL !! Proud to be part of your 98%
North Georgia Weather June 17, 2013 at 07:09 pm
Tammy, there is a cell over Lithonia right now that is headed your way, should be there within 30…Read More minutes.
I created a new blog post for today and tomorrow:
http://dacula.patch.com/blog_posts/wet-day-or-two
Kristi Reed (Editor) June 17, 2013 at 10:39 pm
The devil was beating his wife here too for a while, but now it is just cloudy with about 110…Read More percent humidity.
Lynn Halverson June 13, 2013 at 03:25 pm
How fun is this? To get the scoop from a theater newbie! We love you in Bo!
TheSkalawag June 19, 2013 at 07:35 pm
I remember my Great Grandmother putting just enough coffee in a cup of milk to color the milk and we…Read More would sit and have our "morning coffee" together before we went to the farmer's market on Saturdays or before we went to church on Sundays.
Those were some of my most cherished times in my life.
Sharon Swanepoel (Editor) June 19, 2013 at 07:58 pm
So glad you have found your voice again Skalawag!
TheSkalawag June 19, 2013 at 08:12 pm
Me too. Couldn't have done it without you and your great IT team. Thank you Sharon.
Iberostar9 June 13, 2013 at 11:14 pm
I posted the story on Facebook. Hopefully, Maddie will get her home.
Tammy Osier June 17, 2013 at 07:48 pm
As I was re-reading these, and noted the chain link fence, how many remember these highways only…Read More being two lanes?
George Louth June 18, 2013 at 08:17 am
Funtown was on Stewart Avenue (Metropolitan Parkway) across from Zayres near Stewart Lakewood…Read More Shopping Center
Tammy Osier June 19, 2013 at 05:12 pm
GL - OH yeaaaaah! I remember now! And I wanted to remind Sharon that not only did people reminisce,…Read More but even traded information. That's what's cool to me!
Jason Brooks June 12, 2013 at 09:06 pm
Sara - I dreamed of a condo today while cutting my yard. I cannot tell you how often I've lamented…Read More my decision to buy a house with almost an acre of ground to maintain. I don't know how people with more than an acre do it.
Jason Brooks June 12, 2013 at 09:07 pm
Hillary - My daughter is nearly 10. Once she reaches double-digits, the yard will become a regular…Read More part of her weekly duties (not all of it, mind you; but enough to help me stay sane!).
Jason Brooks June 12, 2013 at 09:08 pm
Skalaway - I cultivate artistic creativity through writing. Mainly because I suck with plants.
Robbi McCaig June 12, 2013 at 12:08 pm
"There are people in all levels of government office who would like nothing more than to be…Read More able to conduct all the public business out of public view"
The problem is, who's going to stop them? Certainly--no one from this justice department who is complicit in multiple overreaches and coverups.
Tammy Osier June 12, 2013 at 12:41 pm
I wrote this on another post but it so applies here and is worth repeating:
James Madison wrote in…Read More the federalist paper (no. 51) concerning the separation of powers and need for limited government , "“ It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government……”
We need to have a "Madison moment"...
Tammy Osier June 12, 2013 at 12:41 pm
I remember when I opened up the news to see that Holder was going to investigate Holder. Ha! What's…Read More scary is that there are some who think that's just fine?
Tim June 10, 2013 at 10:02 pm
I am SOOOOOOO....tired of this rain.....it plays havoc with my trapline.
Kasey Hurst June 10, 2013 at 11:15 pm
Oh I know we are too, it started to flood one of our chicken pens. We ended up moving them.
Wet Day or Two
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