Friday, January 27, 2012

Greetings From Planet Paula: My Grandpa's mischievous spirit...

Greetings From Planet Paula: My Grandpa's mischievous spirit...: ...entered my body when he died so young, I just know it. Since I have only two clear memories of him when he had a heart attack (I was 6 ...
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BEWARE OF NORTON LIFELOCK!!!

This is a short story about a disreputable, despicable company by the name of NORTON LIFELOCK. They deducted over $250.00  from my account W...

  • WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN...?
    This photo was taken at Kensico Dam, upstate NY in 1965 by my very first "serious" boyfriend, initials R.A. I was 17 years old w...
  • "WEATHERWISE, IT'S SUCH A LOVELY DAY..."
    Thanks to Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn, that line from "Come Fly With Me" will always be remembered when discu...
  • A DAY AT THE BEACH!
    I am now at the one-year anniversary of my Facebook note "A Day At The Beach" and thought it would be nice to re-publish it for...
  • BEWARE OF NORTON LIFELOCK!!!
    This is a short story about a disreputable, despicable company by the name of NORTON LIFELOCK. They deducted over $250.00  from my account W...
  • MY NONON, A TYPICAL ITALIAN GREAT-GRANDMOTHER!
    Maria Rosa Mastroianni This is my great-grandmother, Nonon, circa mid-1950s. She was my grandfather's mother (thus, my mother's...
  • "STRONG FOR TOO LONG..."
    It's no secret among my family and friends that I've struggled with depression most of my life. When, in my 20s, I could find n...
  • A CHRISTMAS STORY
    It was my 4th grade Christmas play. My classmates and I had been working on it since the beginning of school in September, and I could h...
  • CHICLET TEETH, TRANSVAGINAL MESH AND BOUNCING BLADDERS
    Lately, it seems like the pharmaceutical industry is going absolutely bonkers with new products (which generate new, and quite unusual law...
  • MIND OUT OF TIME
    (Title inspired by Bob Dylan's brilliant Grammy award winning-recording, "Time Out Of Mind.") Ever feel like you were born...
  • THE WILD, WILD (DIRTY) AMERICAN WEST
    "Clean water extra"...?? How dis gusting! So if a person doesn't have "extra," that means you get to bathe in some...