Dorie’s Different Reality

Thirty days hath September,
April, June and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone
Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine,
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
No day is complete without a bit of trivia. I had to look this up: today marks my 14th leap year day- the first occured in 1956! Also, […]

I got this definition from the Merriam-Webster online dictionary: \prə-ˈpiŋ-kwə-tē\ Noun Etymology: Middle English propinquite, from Latin propinquitat-, propinquit as kinship, proximity,
from propinquus near, akin, from prope near — more at, approach Date:14th century
An old word that I’ve found sums up the way relationships zig and zag […]

Well, we finally watched “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” the other day. I think I loved it. But also, my brain kind of went, “um- what was that?” I do enjoy Monty Python and the occasional Dr. Who. So if you enjoy things like that, you’ll love it too. Now I have to read the […]

Every person who does needlecrafts has a “stash” (Nope, not like what we called a stash in the 70’s) I have a buddy who sews and she has boxes and boxes of lovely fabric. I have a nifty plastic box full of dozens of colors of DMC floss. I used to do a lot […]

Four years ago, the USA Today online edition was running a daily Haiku contest and my little haiku, “Pink” was the winner for Feb. 26, 2004. Yippee!I was entered to win the weekly prize, of a book, but I didn’t. Anyhow, this is “Pink”:
girly whirly dots
cotton candy poodle skirt
pink like puppy tongues

When she goes, she’s gone.
If she stays, she stays here.
The girl does what she wants to do.
She knows what she wants to do.
And I know I’m fakin’ it,
I’m not really makin’ it.
Fakin’ It, Paul Simon, Bookends, 1968
I question Hillary Clinton’s anger over issues raised in two of Obama’s campaign flyers. I’m sure she’s […]

That’s Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 3 in LOL Cat! The whole Bible has been translated into cat language. My links aren’t working for some reason, but it’s located here: http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page It’s all for fun. Probably will encourage people who wouldn’t normally pick up a Bible to look things up that don’t make sense […]

On the Today show this morning, they did a short piece on “The Dumbing of America.” They showed such cultural milestones as Kelly Pickler on a game show asking if France was a country and that teen beauty pageant contestant who made the national news for her moment of dumbness. Most disturbing of all is […]

Hello! I’m feeling a bit woozy today; wondering if I’m catching a cold. But I didn’t want to totally abandon the blog, so I found a pretty neat picture to show you. http://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities-news-in-pics/17-02-2008/46908/
Yep, that’s little Sean. Then standing next to Yoko, it’s like 1972 all over again.
Neither Sean or his […]

My long-time BBF, Pallie,  sent me this in the e-mail today. My sentiments exactly! (by the talented “author unknown”)

Every day there are news reports of more deaths.
Why are we still there?
We see images of death and destruction on TV every night.
Why are we still there?
We took this land by force. We occupied it. It causes […]