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Magaz8nes: our Walmart has completely eliminated magazines and has greatly reduced its book and physical media section. They dron"t even have magazines at check out anymore. Our Kroger has done away with its book and magazine section, but it still has a few titles at check out. Books a Million ...

Not at all. I think that's fascinating. Good memories run in my family, too, but nothing quite like yours. I also remember my third birthday quite vividly, for good reasons not bad, and I probably also have a few from before that. My mother could remember when she learned to walk. Apparently it was ...

Lol. I agree that your pronunciation is better. Although your girls are studying martial arts, so maybe the other pronunciation would work, too.

Not being very knowledgeable about Martha Stewart, I'd never heard that about her. But it might help explain her extraordinary success.

Speaking of whom, most of my stores around here have pretty much eliminated magazines, so I'm wondering if the seasonal Halloween magazines will show up.

That's certainly unusual, both the sleep pattern and the eidetic (? I guess) memory. As long as you're healthy, though, I guess it gives you an advantage over the rest of us. My mother used to say that the only truly democratic or equal thing on earth is that we all have 24 hours in a day. But if mo...

Oh, now, I looked up its meaning, and that's just lovely. Do you accent the first or second syllable? I've never known a Samara, but I've known some Tamaras that did one and some the other, TAMara or TaMARa.

I'm actually very impressed that you can carve out time to do all these things for your extended family, while simultaneously building a successful business and raising a young family of your own. Well done you!

I think it's great that you found a way to honor him with your first dsughter's name. I first heard the name Samantha on Bewitched, and I always loved both the character and her name. On the show she was frequently called Sam, which I thought was cool.

My goodness! We have a Wendy's in this neighborhood, and I'd heard nothing about this! Such a fun thing to do!

Your suggestions about digitalizing the stories and preserving the originals from fire are good advice. I really need to do that. I'm afraid my aunt's memorabilia is probably lost. Her only child, a daughter, preceded her in death, and toward the end a conniving couple, no relation, wheedled their w...

That's funny. I didn't realize I hadn't mentioned them before. My daughter was named for my grandmother. There are lots of Lydias in my father's mother's family, going back into the 19th century. I have two first cousins with that name. As a child I loved it and even found some short stories I'd wri...

Oh, man, what a gorgeous young woman she was! Beautiful like a golden age movie star. Actually, all the children in the first photo are attractive. Good looks apparently run in your family. I wish I had some of my mother's old family photos. Her younger sister was the keeper of them, and I have no i...

You sound like the boss everybody wishes he had. It's so thoughtful of you to treat your young employees like extended family. My boys are four years apart, so it was.a challenge when they were kids, trying to think of activities that would work for, say, 4 yr olds and 8 yr olds, or 8 and 12, etc. W...

My younger son's birthday is today, so I asked him where he might like to go before his next birthday. Since he's the only one of us who's never been outside the country, I suggested a trip to Canada, maybe Quebec, which would serm different from America. But he said he'd rather go to South Carolina...

You must have one of those photographic memories, HH. Yes, my sons have back-to-back August birthdays. The younger one's is today, the Chicago one's is tomorrow.