Beeker’s Words

photo by: respres
My friend Nicole took her 4 year old son James with her to vote yesterday. Upon arriving at the registration table, a volunteer asked Nicole for her name. Thinking that the volunteer was talking to him, James proudly recited his full name. The volunteer explained that he needed his mom’s name because she [...]

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photo by: soupboy
I think everyone knows a man that would rather cut off a finger than stop and ask for directions at a gas station or such. Lately I have noticed a new phenomenon among these men. It is the “Let me roll down my window and yell at the guy in the car next [...]

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I think most people are familiar with this cartoon cat from You Tube:

Take a look at this video of the real Simon’s Cat:

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Me: Niece, would you please come here?
Niece: What? (She yells from her room.)
Me: Please come here.
Niece: What? What do you want? (She yells as she walks from her room.)
Me: Don’t what me.  Please come here. You should say, “Yes, ma’am or sir. It is not polite to respond to an adult by bellowing the word [...]

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Today, I was kid sitting for our friends and had the pleasure of spending the day with their 4 year old son.  I watched Finding Nemo twice today.  He just LOVES the movie Finding Nemo. Apparently he has watched it so much they have gone through at least one copy of the DVD.  Well as [...]

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photo by: Alex
Don’t you love looking up into the canopy of the trees around you?  I love driving down winding roads that are draped with the limbs and leaves of surrounding trees. If I ever need to focus and find an inner calm quickly, I think of trees.  Well today I was doing some research [...]

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I did not have time to fix my hair today and I came across this Natalie Dee cartoon that expresses how I feel:

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Last night Pete and I went up to NYC to Radio City Music Hall to see our favorite comedian, the amazing Eddie Izzard! His show was freaking hilarious and we had a great time. I have not laughed so hard in months. I will never look at Wikipedia, Moses, Soup, or the Great Flood [...]

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We went out to dinner tonight with some friends. During our conversation the website ManBabies.com was mentioned. People submit photos of fathers with their sons. The twist is that they switch their heads using Photoshop. I found some of the photos very funny and others to be more than a little disturbing. I think it [...]

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My niece Hanniah (age 4) gave me a huge compliment this weekend. She told me on Sunday that she wanted to be a wonderful Aunt like me when she grows up. This was after she told me that the Smurfs were lame in comparison to the 3D-CGI produced Backyardigans of her generation. This was after [...]

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