Thursday, December 18, 2008

These were the words used in a search
query by someone (likely a high school freshman) who found
StoryRhyme.com. To the seeker: I'm going to go out on a limb here
and guess that you didn't read the story, did you? Because if you
did, you'd know that O. Henry's use of irony is not exactly subtle.
In fact, if at first you didn't know what irony meant, you would
after reading "The Gift of the Magi..."
Update: Jim And Della's Gifts;
Irony... Okay, since it's the season of giving and since I
don't want to feel like I've got spiders in my soul like The
Grinch, I'm directing this post to the many of you who are seeking
the answer to the question: What is ironic about the
gifts Jim and Della gave to each other. Also, what were they really
giving...
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Saturday, December 13, 2008
Laura finds herself in a classroom
full of enthusiastic, well-groomed and always polite high school
freshman eagerly waiting for her to teach them the proper way to
diagram a sentence...
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Monday, December 08, 2008
The spirit of the holidays, whether
you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, is really about
giving to others. The saying "'Tis better to give than to receive"
is true. As we get older, for most of us, there's not much that we
need.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Scanning, building, linkiing, coding
pages for Mason and Andrew's guide is a bit of an undertaking
(Husband has the dark circles under his eyes to prove it). So much
so that if it weren't for the persistence on the part of one of our
young friends (frequent phone calls to the house), this undertaking
may not have taken place so, um, quickly (11-year-olds are not
known for their patience and forbearance)...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
I made a dogfood cake and gave the
dogs individual treats. We attempted to put party hats on them
(except for K.C. who was a nasty little thing), and took pictures.
What good are dogs if you can't put hats on them once in a while
for your own enjoyment..?
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Friday, May 02, 2008
By comparison to Eli, Chance is a
complete slacker. While Eli would patrol the yard constantly,
Chance merely pokes his head out the dog door to see if it's worth
his trouble to go out (and for Chance, it's usually not). We
discovered that dogs, like children, are their own unique
individuals. Eli lived to please us and couldn't bear to be
scolded. Reprimands roll off Chance's back like water...
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Saturday, April 19, 2008
I know, we're wimps. Husband insists
he's had enough from his scouting days to last him a lifetime...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
He walks up to us as if he's about to
deliver some important pronouncement and -- burps...
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Friday, March 21, 2008
He was a little nervous about going to
school the next day and wondered about the reaction he'd get from
his schoolmates...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
There he was inside his homemade
cardboard spaceship with his astronaut helmet on. In another
picture he wore his pith helmet with vest full of tools -- insect
net, magnifying glass, and compass...
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