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TJs Things

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holiday things

  • A conversation with Dad.

    I don’t talk to my Dad much on the phone, but I had been hoping I would get the opportunity to speak to him today. I had been listening to a radio program about fathers and the impact they can have on their children. My father and my relationship has been a bit stormy at… Read more

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  • Let me get this straight.

    Mattel did a recall because they had lead paint in their toys. Ok. Now, the recall was not so much about lead paint as it was about design flaws. And Mattel is sorry to those of us who, for whatever reason, purchased their toys, and to the Chinese people and government. Uh huh. Let me… Read more

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  • Uh.

    We’re under heat advisory, and I’m out of popsicles. In the second week of September. Yep. We’re supposed to be in the mid 90’s. for a day or so. I look forward to the cooling off part of the week. There will be a congressional hearing on Sept. 19 on hazardous toys. I’ll have to… Read more

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  • Not titled.

    I had to give myself a little pat on the back today. I was getting Al’s stuff together to get things going well for back to school and I started to enter his parent teacher conferences in my PDA when lo and behold, I had entered them already from the first time I got his… Read more

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