My Favorite Picture Book When Young

My favorite was The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Something eerie about it, kind of a horror tale for kids. I had up to three copies of it, all with different covers. One was harmless and showed only the silly goats on the cover. Another showed the goats plus a rather comic, definitely non-threatening troll 'neath the bridge. The last was more menacing, showing only a black space under the bridge and just the lethal eyes of the troll.

I liked being creeped out by such books and covers!

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Interesting Obituary Seen

Saw an interesting obit on a 97-year-old widow woman. Here it is in full, though brief:

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Obituaries can be funny

Seen in obituaries:
. . . She loved gravy. . . She chewed each bite of food multiple times, just like her loving father taught her to do.

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Why I do not own a cell phone

We no longer lead lives of quiet desperation--sorry, Henry David Thoreau, but your old saw is no longer so.

These days, the sum total of existence for most of us is having a cell phone pressed up to our nose or ear at all times. Oh, and aren't they beautifully formed and colored; so much so, many of us will replace our current one with another, later model, even more current and fashionable, long before it has used up its usefulness,or uselessness, depending on your viewpoint. Life is sweet, getting another one of these must-haves; so, off to the electronics store we go . . . but not to Radio Shack, of course.

That's what we've come to, being obsessed with these gadgets. So why do I not own a cell phone? That's easy: someone might call.

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