The Thirteen Thursday Matchbook Message
1. It was an honor to receive an email from long time blog friend Pearl telling me that she had written a poem about me. It’s HERE.
2. Joe and I were watching Saturday Night Live last weekend when he surprised me by asking in all seriousness, “So who are they going to get to replace Seth Meyers on the Weekend Edition?” He got the idea that Seth had left the show by only reading the misleading headlines HERE.
3. I got a phone call from my son earlier this week asking, “Mum, do you really have scars in rings around your ankles?” He read about it HERE.
4. Why doesn’t anyone engaged in the mammogram guideline debate have the guts to say publicly that mammograms used to detect breast cancer emit radiation, which is known to increase the risk of cancer.
5. Recently my email inbox suffered a glitch and deleted 3,000 old emails, which gave me the strength to delete the other 3,000. Since our community newsletter (the Museletter), my blog, and the writer’s circle I belong to are in flux, I took it as a metaphor to let go of the old to make room for the new.
6. The difference between a compliment and a complaint is just a few letters.
7. Question mark moon … Each star is a period … in the lyrical miracle … of the story eternal. After posting this poem on Monday and getting a comment from a reader about God, I answered “I think God is a poet who wrote the uni-verse!”
8. Even in November: My laundry is sun dried. My supper vegetables are garden grown, and my wood stove kindling is gathered from the woods around our house.
9. My father never taught us how to ride a bike or play ball, but he taught us that bullies act tough because they feel small inside and that the sickest most deranged people in the world are the ones who don’t think they are sick.
10. Bottles of bubbles and flashing spinning tops are mixed with the cans of beans and jars of peanut butter on the shelves in my pantry. There is not even one can of cranberry sauce.
11. I found the mysterious matchbook scene (there were more outside of the shot) on the gravel driveway in front of my mailbox about a year ago. Today seemed like a good day to post it.
12. If you think this Thirteen Thursday list (posted for Thanksgiving Day) is void of the traditional holiday fixins, read last year’s entry HERE.
13. Need a compliment? Go HERE.
Thank you for reading. Read more HERE.
November 25th, 2009 5:47 pm
So you are posting TT on Wednesday this year??
Happy Thanksgiving Coll. xoxo
November 25th, 2009 5:50 pm
Yes, because I skipped Wednesday. I was at Bryce’s all day and meant to post while there but forgot my jump drive and since my blog was moved I can’t seem to post date posts. I used to post TT’s on Wednesday night but could put Thursday’s date on it.
November 25th, 2009 6:54 pm
#4 I said it forever everyone poo pooed me– I’m going to Bryce’s house Thanksgiving !!
November 25th, 2009 8:34 pm
I hear you on 4. The scare mongering that has been going on since, oh, the presidential campaign, has diverted the conversation from the question, have we been over-examined? Yeesh. Follow the money….
November 25th, 2009 10:20 pm
Love the poem written about you. Great post, as always. Happy T13!
November 26th, 2009 12:15 am
So that’s why my doctor told me to stop getting the mammograms even though we were monitoring a lump.
November 26th, 2009 6:24 am
This is a very interesting and varied list.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate and a Happy Thursday just to celebrate.Thursday Thirteen
November 26th, 2009 7:03 am
Happy TG Day. Enjoy your family. I enjoyed your post!!
November 26th, 2009 9:32 am
I really liked the compliment page. Great TT.
November 26th, 2009 12:20 pm
I force myself to be ruthless and delete old emails a couple times a year. It can be difficult, yet uplifting at the same time. Happy Thanksgiving!
November 26th, 2009 2:15 pm
Haven’t been here in a long time… dropping by to say hello and to wish you and yours a happy Thanksgiving 🙂
November 26th, 2009 4:02 pm
Interesting points you bring up 🙂
Have a great Thursday!
http://iamharriet.blogspot.com/2009/11/thursday-thanksgiving-13-facts-and.html
November 26th, 2009 9:40 pm
Funny how sometimes mistakes turn into positive experiences (re: #5). Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, Colleen!
November 26th, 2009 9:49 pm
Happy Thanksgiving!
glad you liked the few words about you. 🙂
neat compliment generator.
8 nice scenario. low eco footprint and pleasurable besides.
November 26th, 2009 11:19 pm
I’m really glad your comment on my humble blog led me here. It doubled the gift of your kindly words! This was a good read. Thank you for sharing!
November 27th, 2009 1:55 am
At least your son READS your post ! mine is only looking at the pictures, if he looks, lol !
November 27th, 2009 7:51 am
I have a terrible time deleting old emails—it sometimes feels like I’m throwing away old letters. So I guess I’m fortunate that my email program automatically does it for me. 🙂
Wonderful Thursday 13, as always, Colleen.
November 29th, 2009 5:02 am
It sounds like the computer did you a great favor…lol! I have a hard time with old emails, but, I DO go through everything periodically and “delete”…Yours was certainly a clean slate, my dear…!