Becky's Greatest Hits Vol. II

Your standard non-sport package Cozy Coupe. Cruising the streets with Parent. Has its very own parking space! Kind of a Cozy Coupe flip-off to us licensed drivers. Broke down?  Waiting for parts?  Residence maybe? What about you????  Where have you seen interesting Cozy Coupe photo ops in your town?  I collected all these from the Interwebs, but I constantly see them broken down and lying around in various places in my neighborhood.  I always wonder what that poor kid is driving while he waits for his dad to get around to fixing his lil coupe....  This post, as random as it clearly is, means nothing more than to offer a distraction to whatever everyday struggles you may be facing in life.  I hope it put a little smile on your face and made you think about Cozy Coupes for a minute and forget about all that other overwhelming stuff.  Now you when head back out on the road today, you'll be on the look-out for Cozy Coupes ...

"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"   One of the most memorable lines ever written in literature by one of the most gifted writers and illustrators of children's books.      I don't think it's right to be very sad when a person who has lived a long and full life dies.  But I do think it's right to praise them, to miss them even if you didn't know them, and to pass on the joy they brought to you.   Thank you, Mr. Sendak.

For such a recent time in our history, it is very hard to find very many books about the Vietnam War.  I've always been interested because when I was growing up so many of my friends' fathers served in this war.  I was always grateful my father wasn't there.  And as I read this book, I still am.

Every time a childhood icon dies, I just feel a little bit smaller and a little bit older. Incidentally, Little Boy loves singing "Hey, ladeeeees!  Get fonk-ay!" 

In the weeks and months leading up to my decision to give up meat, I kept having these episodes that were turning me off meat. One day I was eating a piece of thinly sliced deli ham when I suddenly had a vision of it being some kind of flesh that had literally been ripped from an animal. I don't know where that thought came from or why it entered my head at that moment, but all I knew was that I had to get that stuff out of my mouth before I vomited all over my kitchen. After that particular moment of revulsion, I started thinking about a few other times that this similar thought had come into my head. Where it had come from, I'm just not sure, but it was a very real and disgusted feeling at the thought of having meat from an animal in my mouth. I was also realizing the smells and textures of meats were bothering me. E-Roc would bring home these delectable sandwiches and wraps from the deli, and I suddenly couldn't bear the smell of pork or salami. Or I would pretty m...

This is one of the weirdest and best books I have read lately.  It seems like something I should've written.  Damn her for thinking of it first, and very probably, doing it better.

I have been very caught up in my own personal stories lately and have not addressed a serious issue here in North Carolina.  On Tuesday, May 8th you must VOTE AGAINST AMENDMENT ONE.  This amendment wants to create a constitutional ban on same sex marriages.  What you may not know is that such a law would hurt many domestic partnerships including homosexual and heterosexual couples.  In my community, there are a few loud politicians that are working hard to get this law passed.  Do not support these guys just because they are popular.  Do not support these guys because you grew up with them and used to play basketball with them on their parents' carport.  Do not support anything that you really don't know anything about.  Amendment 1 will not hurt your heterosexual marriage.  If you are straight, married or single, Amendment 1 will pretty much mean nothing to you. However, if you are in a same sex marriage or an opposite sex domestic p...