Beeker’s Words

Sara Schaefer Munoz posted an article on The Wall Street Journal titled Life’s Not Fair: How to break it to your kids. She discusses this topic and how Betsy Brown Braun has authored a new book called “Just Tell Me What to Say,”. Braun recommends the following things:

Eliminate “that’s not fair” from your own daily usage. Adults [...]

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Please add to the population of my Mini City: Beeker’s Wordsville by clicking here.

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The Caldecott Medal was named for the nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded each year by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children published during the previous year. The 2008 Caldecott Medal was awarded to Good [...]

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Who does not like a fortune cookie at the end of a good Chinese meal? I think all meals should end with a sweet cookie filled with sage-like wisdom, lottery numbers, and a handy Chinese phrase phonetically spelled for the masses.  I knew that the cookies did not originate in China, but I was always [...]

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I was reading everyone’s secrets on postsecret.blogspot.com and I died laughing at the one above. I could not do this because I lack the ability to recognize a strip club when I see one. There is a strip joint called Pumps on Route 36 here in New Jersey. I drove by this place almost daily for [...]

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I was looking for a picture of a missile for my last entry and I came across these two images while I was searching. Both made me pause and then I had a guilty giggle at their expense. I hope that missile was not the last thing that man saw with both eyes and I [...]

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photo by Gavin Oliver
I was reading Yahoo News and came across this story by Dmitry Solovyov and Vera Kalian:
“MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s military Thursday offered compensation to a homeowner after a small rocket veered off course and hit his country house outside Moscow…A defense ministry official told Reuters two rockets had gone astray during a military exercise [...]

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On December 29th I wrote an entry about how much I love my new Dr. Grip Gel pen by Pilot. I still love my new pen but I found the master of all pen reviews courtesy of haha.nu.
Matt Williams is the master of the pen review. He really loves his BIC Crystal Point Ballpoint Pen. [...]

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