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• SOME THINGS NOT FOR SALE: Modeling Joy
• Posted by Granny La Te Da • 12/7/11

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Hello O-Mamas!

Should I tell you the good news or the bad news first?  Okay, bad news first.

I don’t like sales.  I don’t like to shop in crowds.  So why did I go to my one and only, first and last, “door buster” sale about 35 years ago?  I needed an all weather rain coat that’s why.  And a quality woman’s store had them on sale for $5.00!

Wow!  Five dollars!  I was thinking that it was way...

• DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE: Thankful For My Many Blessings
• Posted by Granny La Te Da • 11/1/11

“thanks·giv·ing: the act of giving thanks; grateful acknowledgment of benefits or favors, especially to God; an expression of thanks, especially to God; a public celebration in acknowledgment of divine favor or kindness;  a day set apart for giving thanks to God.”  

I’m looking forward to another Thanksgiving Day. But I also want to think of the “first” thanksgiving in 1621, when the...

• DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE: Listen And Learn
• Posted by Granny La Te Da • 9/19/11

I was on my way to buy some birthday gifts when I saw my eldest son’s vehicle parked at a Star Bucks.  He goes there frequently to write his blogs for IdeaFestival.com and KY Space.com.  So, I stopped and thought I’d go in to just say “hi.”  I ended up keeping him from his business for a bit longer.  Okay, a lot longer!  (When a mother finds one of her adult children alone, she must take...

• DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE: Independence Day
• Posted by Granny La Te Da • 7/4/11

Hello O-Mamas! 

The Fourth of July in the United States of America commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from Great Britain. On July 3rd, a day earlier than the final approval of the Declaration, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail:

The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am...

• DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: Priorities
• Posted by Granny La Tee Da • 4/1/11