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Yes, the correct email address is quite important. I am still so glad I called & verified an email address last week. We'd left our car keys in a hotel room safe. They found them & I needed to email a mailing label to them. What I thought I was hearing on the phone the first time I talked to the hotel & what it really was differed by one letter. If I'd gone ahead & sent it, I'd be calling the hotel again wondering why our keys hadn't arrived!
Funetik Spelling
Marilyn Thiele It’s a dull week when the most interesting event I can remember involves spelling, but these are the dog days of August, so that’s the week that was. It started with an advertising e-mail from the company from which I bought both my laptop and my e-reader (the name of which does n...
My legal name is Joan Elaine. I was named after Joan of Arc. My aunt, who was my primary babysitter, had a niece in-law named Joanne whom she did not like. She refused to call me Joan & always used Elaine. My dad, who with his 4 brother spoiled their only sister, told my mom to let it be & I ended up as Elaine. I toyed with varieties. My mom called me Jody as a pet name. I even thought I'd try Jei, my initials. I was going to be Joan when I started college, but 2 girls from my area remembered me as Elaine & that took care of that. Later, right after I graduated from college, I was working as a waitress. There had been an Ellen, a Helen, and & Eileen at my last job, so I was using Jody. I met my husband on a blind date & gave him the choice of Jody or Elaine. I've been Jody for far more years than I was Elaine now. The relatives have gotten used to it, though the first few years I'd sign my Christmas cards as Jody (Elaine).
Naming Yourself
Elaine Viets My grandfather called me Angel. Spend five minutes with me, and you’ll know that nickname doesn’t fit. No one ever called me Angel after Grandpa passed away. In fact, I’ve never had a nickname. One friend tried Lainie, but that didn’t stick, either. When Catholic children are co...
I can do this.
Jody
Covered: Tuesday, August 23rd 10-11 am, Help Desk
I have a previously scheduled meeting. Happy to trade!
If I were blind, I'd still be able to "read" books since so many are now available as audio books. Glaucoma runs on one side of my family; macular degeneration on the other. It's always possible that I may lose some of my sight. I do think I'd prefer blind, but we don't get a choice, do we?
Blind vs Deaf - part 1
Somewhere around the time my daughter was in middle school, she approached me with the question that signals a pre-adolescent's first tentative attempts at philosophical reasoning: "Mom, if you had to choose, would you rather be blind or deaf?" (To my knowledge, my daughter had not been readin...
I was a grown woman with 2 children of my own before I heard about my dramatic birth. My mother's nurse gave her an overdose of the medicine to increase contractions. Her cervix clamped down on my head during labor. I was forcibly removed with forceps. She said I was paralzyed on the left side of my face for several weeks. My parents fretted that I would have brain damage. I blame my klutziness on that.
When my mom started contractions with my brother, she was living alone (except for me) on the farm. My dad had died 3 months previously. She took me to my grandparents across the road & drove alone into town. On the way her car's water pump broke. Luckily she was right by another farm & the farmer took her in to the hospital.
I didn't have such dramatic times with my children.
Birth Days
Margaret Maron In a recent NYT magazine article, Melanie Thernstrom wrote about how she and her husband used two surrogates to give birth to a boy and a girl born five days apart. (Meet the Twiblings ) Even though the babies share the same egg and sperm donors, they did not share the same ...
I can do this.
Jody
COVERED: Help Desk Thursday May 7 10-11 a.m.
Thanks Jody! Laurel
I can work 10-11.
Jody
Covered: Help Desk, 10-12, April 23
Thanks Jody for covering 10-11! Thanks Laurel for covering 11-12!
I can work this hour.
COVERED Friday, March 27th, 9-10am, Help Desk
Hi. I am looking for a trade for this hour at the Help Desk. Thanks! Erin
Looks like just the book to get for my son-in-law for his birthday.
Jody
Be AFRAID, be very AFRAID
Barbara Poelle The wickedly talented Grand Central editor Jaime Levine and I were enjoying a recent outing together when I commented it’s been a while since I was sure that both Pennywise and The Other were standing in my closet. I’ve just been needing a good old fashioned scare from a boo...
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