The new item on the dollar menu -Spicy Chicken McBites is not the only hot thing at McDonalds. It seems like it's the place to be if you want to see catfights by the McFlurry of them now available on YouTube. 

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The place where my breast used to be swelled up with fluid. My surgeon stuck needles in and drained. This doesn’t hurt because the tissue where my breast used to be is numb.

Three times it filled up. Three times, I let her drain it.

When it filled up for a 4th time, I refused the draining.

This isn’t just swelling and sloshing. This fluid makes it hurt to raise my arm over my head or do other stretches. It hurts from below where my breast used to…

Writer Wednesday is a Zoomers.ca feature where we issue a weekly open call on a particular theme or subject that our community of bloggers are welcomed to participate in.
 If you're a blogger that's interested in getting a handle on your craft (or even connecting with an audience!) then this is definitely the challenge for you. 
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Author and filmmaker Nora Ephron passed away on June 26th at the age of 71. She was best known for her romantic comedies including her academy award nominated scripts for When Harry Met Sally  and Sleepless in Seattle.

In…

This blog post is meant to accompany the video I posted in my video section (and just LOVE), about "Cool Dames".   I encourage you to have a look.

Ari Seth Cohen (in his 30's) has found himself to be inspired by some very voguish and dynamic ladies of a "certain age", some in their 90's.  In this post you will find a few tantalizing excerpts from an article in the NYTimes.com about Cohen and his very distinguished ladies.  

Please also read the entire article by…

I am severely allergic to cats and my last bout on Friday  had me down for the weekend. Because of the emotional loss of not being able to get near a cat I often read things about cats.

Actually, I am quite obsessed!…

I do believe this is called a 'Barka' ?

It's own heat wave inside there and not a lot to see either.

The last few days haven't been that bad here in the Southern Indiana of the United States, if it stayed this way, I'd be glad.  

Low 80s, slight breeze, desperate need for rain as not a drop has fallen in the month of June.

My plants and trees can tell you that last part sucks.

Starting tomorrow, the typical July - August temps will be hitting, well over a 100 degrees, not sure about the humidity, the weather man…

Hmmmmmm....a blog about a heat wave on Vancouver Island. That's a tough one, as today, June 26th,  it was only 18 degrees (64.4 fahrenheit). The last time we had a heat wave, in the Comox Valley, was in the summer of 2009. I remember it like it was yesterday. (Actually that's not quite true,…

My childhood friend Sheila Wallet kept every letter and piece of paper that I had ever sent to her from 1973-1989. Sheila emailed me last year and asked me if I wanted all the old letters and newspaper clippings I had sent her throughout the years.  When I received them they were neatly piled and carefully dated with the envelopes stapled to the letters. I had never seen anything like this and questioned whether my friend had OCD or was she…

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The heat in Georgia finally got to two co-workers at the Milton Wal-Mart on Windward Parkway last Saturday. Dorothy Kemp, 63, and Marissa Moody, 56, were giving out samples in the produce section when they got into an argument over a cutting board.  The victim told Atlanta's Channel 2 's reporter Mike Petchenik that she had issues with her fellow…

This recipe is a crowd pleaser. If you are having a get together you can freeze most of it beforehand, and finish it up the day of in no time at all. It can also be easily doubled

Artichoke Pesto

Ingredients:

Before the freezer:

• 1 (8-ounce) pack frozen artichoke hearts, thawed or 1 can artichokes packed in brine, rinsed

• 1 cup fresh parsley…

Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."

"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.

Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.

When the truth…

It's One Hundred Ella-ven Degrees Fitzgerald,

     but somehow it's still cool in the shade of this scat singing.

It's beyond balmy

It's more than muggy

It's surpassed Scorching

The lyrics by Irving Berlin explain local meteorological phenomena in clear non-technical terms.…