Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Glad to know I'm not alone. I was beginning to be afraid it was an age thing. I had four kids (including 2 c-sections) and never had a meal brought over at all. It didn't even cross my mind to expect it. There are lots of alternatives and plans that can be made way ahead of time.

paternal grandfather: farmer
paternal grandmother: SAHM (with 13 kids no less)
maternal grandfather: dairy farmer
maternal grandmother: SAHM

Are cold war movies actually war movies? And is war movie synonymous with lack of romance? Or lack of female presence? Inquiring minds want to know.

But even without that being the real meaning, I still don't understand why "hardly any females" was even necessary in the answer. For a movie (military especially) made before same sex attraction was even talked about in polite society other than in a completely disparaging way, this is a...

I read books with (mild) sexual content for a good half-decade before I ever had sex myself. If you count Shakespeare, that initiation came even earlier. As did I, but that doesn't stop some parents I have encountered from being overly concerned. I've even read about some groups being offended by b...

Handmaid's Tale has a lot of great messages, but depending on the area where you live, you may get parents who are not pleased with the sexual themes. I read Dune both in junior high and then again recently. It has a lot of great political messages and imagery that I don't remember noticing when I w...

On the other hand, a nephew who was living with me at the time read both Kite Runner and Life of Pi as a sophomore and loved them both....

The only one of those I've actually read and not put on my I'll read this someday list, is Catcher in the Rye. I found it horrendously painful. I don't know if it was the stream of consciousness thing, or just the character's stream of consciousness, but by the end I not only understood why he was s...

Yarjka wrote:peen (v.) - to strengthen (a metal surface) by light hammering or by bombardment with steel balls or shot.

Sounds like that's probably the source of a ball peen hammer.

Sounds like it, Portia. Did somebody do a devotional last week on the joys of motherhood with a crying baby in the audience or something?

I have a coworker who has an audiobook of Redshirts. He listens to it on an average of once a week.

As a mom and as a math teacher, the common core for math is really well organized and makes a lot of sense. As was mentioned before, classes are not separated out into algebra, geometry, etc., but the concepts are interrelated and used together in a way, to this point, usually only gets done in acce...

It's sort of like the poster today who was upset because she can't get any straight answers. Part of the reason is there are no authoritative straight answers. Each mom is different and each pregnancy is different. I have four kids. 2 C-section and 2 VBAC. My first was a C-section. When the 2nd was ...