It is tough being a woman:
1. In another woman's shadow
2. In a world where beauty is a treatment
3. In a mean world
4. Thrown a giant-sized weight
5. In the tight fist of fear
6. Who can balance passion with patience
7. Who feels responsible for the how.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Christmas Cookie Rules
1. If you eat a Christmas cookie fresh out of the oven, it has no calories because everyone knows that the first cookie is the test and thus calorie free.
2. If you drink a diet soda after eating your second cookie, it also has no calories because the diet soda cancels out the cookie calories.
3. If a friend comes over while you are making your Christmas cookies and needs to sample, you must sample with your friend. Because your friend's first cookie is calorie free, (rule #1) yours is also. It would be rude to let your friend sample alone and being the friend that you are, that makes your cookie calorie free.
4. Any cookie calories consumed while walking around will fall to your feet and eventually fall off as you move. This is due to gravity and the density of the caloric mass.
5. Any calories consumed during the frosting of the Christmas cookies will be used up because it takes many calories to lick excess frosting from a knife without cutting your tongue.
6. Cookies colored red or green have very few calories. red ones have three and green ones have five - one calorie for each letter. Make more red ones!
7. Cookies eaten while watching " Miracle on 34th St. have no calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel.
8. As always, cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breaking causes calorie leakage.
9. Any cookie consumed from someone else's plate have no calories since the calories rightfully belong to the other person and will cling to his or her pate. We all know how calories lke to cling!
10. Any cookies consumed while feeling stressed have no calories because cookies used for medicinal purposes never have calories. It's a rule!
So, go out and enjoy those Christmas Cookies. We only get them this time of year!
This is from my friend Rhonda Hobby
2. If you drink a diet soda after eating your second cookie, it also has no calories because the diet soda cancels out the cookie calories.
3. If a friend comes over while you are making your Christmas cookies and needs to sample, you must sample with your friend. Because your friend's first cookie is calorie free, (rule #1) yours is also. It would be rude to let your friend sample alone and being the friend that you are, that makes your cookie calorie free.
4. Any cookie calories consumed while walking around will fall to your feet and eventually fall off as you move. This is due to gravity and the density of the caloric mass.
5. Any calories consumed during the frosting of the Christmas cookies will be used up because it takes many calories to lick excess frosting from a knife without cutting your tongue.
6. Cookies colored red or green have very few calories. red ones have three and green ones have five - one calorie for each letter. Make more red ones!
7. Cookies eaten while watching " Miracle on 34th St. have no calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel.
8. As always, cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breaking causes calorie leakage.
9. Any cookie consumed from someone else's plate have no calories since the calories rightfully belong to the other person and will cling to his or her pate. We all know how calories lke to cling!
10. Any cookies consumed while feeling stressed have no calories because cookies used for medicinal purposes never have calories. It's a rule!
So, go out and enjoy those Christmas Cookies. We only get them this time of year!
This is from my friend Rhonda Hobby
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The Twelve Days of Christmas
From 1558 until 1829 Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. So someone wrote this song. It has two meaning. a surface meaning and a hidden meaning.
The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.
Two turtle doves were in the Old and New Testaments.
Three french hens stood for faith, hope and love.
The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
The five golden rings recalled the Toorah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.
The six geese a laying stood for the six days of creation.
Seven swans a swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit-- Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership and Mercy.
The eight maids a milking were the eight beatitudes.
Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the holy Spirit-- Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, kindness, Goodness, Gentleness and Self- control.
The ten lords a -leaping were the the Ten Commandments.
The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.
The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles Creed.
The partridge in a pear tree was Jesus Christ.
Two turtle doves were in the Old and New Testaments.
Three french hens stood for faith, hope and love.
The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
The five golden rings recalled the Toorah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament.
The six geese a laying stood for the six days of creation.
Seven swans a swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit-- Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership and Mercy.
The eight maids a milking were the eight beatitudes.
Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the holy Spirit-- Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, kindness, Goodness, Gentleness and Self- control.
The ten lords a -leaping were the the Ten Commandments.
The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful disciples.
The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in the Apostles Creed.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
My Grandmother
Edna M. Chandler
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Born: February 13, 1920
Died: November 25, 2010
Services: Graveside services will be 2:00PM Sunday, November 28, 2010 at Marshall County Memory Gardens. Elder Robert Chandler and Bro. Charles Sturgell will officiate and burial will follow in the Marshall County Memorial Gardens.
Visitation: Friends may call after 5:00PM Saturday, November 27, 2010 at Filbeck-Cann & King Funeral Home and Crematory.
EDNA M. CHANDLER, 90 of Murray, KY passed away at 8:40PM Thursday, November 25, 2010 at Britthaven of Benton.
She was a member of New Hope Primitive Baptist Church.
She is survived by one daughter, Mary Ann Burkeen of Murray, KY; three sons, Jerry Chandler and Robert Chandler both of Benton, KY; and Randy Chandler of Centerville, TN; one sister, Mary Lee Brewer of Hohenwald, TN; eighteen grandchildren, twenty one great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Cecil Junior Chandler; two sisters, Louise Barber and Irene Brison; two brothers, Raymond Hinson and Onis Hinson and her parents, Stanfield Hinson and Annie Lee Anderson Hinson.
Cemetery: Marshall County Memory Gardens
Location: Filbeck-Cann & King Funeral Home
Click on an image for larger version.
Born: February 13, 1920
Died: November 25, 2010
Services: Graveside services will be 2:00PM Sunday, November 28, 2010 at Marshall County Memory Gardens. Elder Robert Chandler and Bro. Charles Sturgell will officiate and burial will follow in the Marshall County Memorial Gardens.
Visitation: Friends may call after 5:00PM Saturday, November 27, 2010 at Filbeck-Cann & King Funeral Home and Crematory.
EDNA M. CHANDLER, 90 of Murray, KY passed away at 8:40PM Thursday, November 25, 2010 at Britthaven of Benton.
She was a member of New Hope Primitive Baptist Church.
She is survived by one daughter, Mary Ann Burkeen of Murray, KY; three sons, Jerry Chandler and Robert Chandler both of Benton, KY; and Randy Chandler of Centerville, TN; one sister, Mary Lee Brewer of Hohenwald, TN; eighteen grandchildren, twenty one great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Cecil Junior Chandler; two sisters, Louise Barber and Irene Brison; two brothers, Raymond Hinson and Onis Hinson and her parents, Stanfield Hinson and Annie Lee Anderson Hinson.
Cemetery: Marshall County Memory Gardens
Location: Filbeck-Cann & King Funeral Home
Friday, November 26, 2010
Did you know
When you carry the bible satan has a headache, when you open the it he collapses. When he sees you reading it, he faints, so lets read the bible everyday so he keeps fainting. (maybe one day he will have a stroke and never wake up).
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Writing memoirs
I just finished reading the book:" Old friends From Far Away" by Natalie Goldberg.
I wanted to write about what she says in her book. This really was not a book about journaling but what she says in here about writing is why I have journaled since a teenager. there is a lot of usefully information in this book. I have read several of her books. I have enjoyed them all.
The word memoir comes from the French memoire. writing is the act of reaching across the abyss of isolation to share and reflect. Writing has an urgency. it is alive. A writer has to have a third thing. That is something to write about. Memoirs are usually not about your whole life. They are more an expression of your life through something. your writing needs to become transparent. We need to write about the ordinary; otherwise we won't know what they are and what direction to head. Memoir is not reportage. Memoir examines how one thing leads to another, how human life unfolds. Memoir is taking personal experience and turning it inside out. We surrender our most precious understanding. this means when we write we give up ourselves. The reason we write memoir is to surrender ourselves. Subjects to write about come from your life and surroundings. With memoir we can go back to retrieve our lives, to make sense of them. One of the jobs of writing is to not pass over hurt, pain, loss or missed connections. you write your memoir to remember everything. The good and the bad. Your writing is a breathing organism. Pour your heart out in your writing. A memoir is like a mirror reflecting back your life. A memoir is like walking into a vast room full of beginnings and endings.
I hope this helps you to understand what a memoir is.
Natalie has written many books on writing. I highly recommend them all.
I wanted to write about what she says in her book. This really was not a book about journaling but what she says in here about writing is why I have journaled since a teenager. there is a lot of usefully information in this book. I have read several of her books. I have enjoyed them all.
The word memoir comes from the French memoire. writing is the act of reaching across the abyss of isolation to share and reflect. Writing has an urgency. it is alive. A writer has to have a third thing. That is something to write about. Memoirs are usually not about your whole life. They are more an expression of your life through something. your writing needs to become transparent. We need to write about the ordinary; otherwise we won't know what they are and what direction to head. Memoir is not reportage. Memoir examines how one thing leads to another, how human life unfolds. Memoir is taking personal experience and turning it inside out. We surrender our most precious understanding. this means when we write we give up ourselves. The reason we write memoir is to surrender ourselves. Subjects to write about come from your life and surroundings. With memoir we can go back to retrieve our lives, to make sense of them. One of the jobs of writing is to not pass over hurt, pain, loss or missed connections. you write your memoir to remember everything. The good and the bad. Your writing is a breathing organism. Pour your heart out in your writing. A memoir is like a mirror reflecting back your life. A memoir is like walking into a vast room full of beginnings and endings.
I hope this helps you to understand what a memoir is.
Natalie has written many books on writing. I highly recommend them all.
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