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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. -Helen Hayes (at 73)- I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. -Janette Barber- Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. -Lily Tomlin- My second favorite…

MONDAY: For sale: R.D. Jones has one sewing machine for sale. Phone 948-0707 after 7 P.M.. and ask for Mrs. Kelly who lives with him cheap. TUESDAY Notice: We regret having erred In R.D. Jones’ ad yesterday. It should have read “One sewing machine for sale cheap. Phone 948-0707 and…

[Roger shared this enjoyable adventure with me] My husband and I had been happily married (most of the time) for five years but hadn’t been blessed with a baby. I decided to do some serious praying and promised God that if he would give us a child, I would be…

As a married man, I’ve learned that I need to be careful what I say, for fear of taking my life in my own hands! Here’s some advice to husbands on what to say . . . DANGEROUS: What’s for dinner? SAFER: Can I help you with dinner? SAFEST: Where…

On our 25th anniversary, my husband took me out to dinner. Our college-age daughters said they’d have dessert waiting for us when we returned. When we arrived home, we saw that the dining room table was beautifully set with china, crystal and candles, and there was a note which read:…

[Forwarded from Mary L] After an overnight flight to meet my father at his latest military assignment, my mother wearily arrived at Rhein-Main Air Base in Germany, with my eight siblings and me (all under age 11), in tow. Collecting our many suitcases, the ten of us entered the cramped…

Subject: True Story of the 3 Bears It’s a sunny morning in the Big Forest, and the Bear family is just waking up. Baby Bear goes downstairs and sits in his small chair at the table; he looks into his small bowl. It is empty. “Who’s been eating my porridge?”…

A loyal Grif.Net reader shared, “Working as a computer instructor for an adult-education program at a community college, I am keenly aware of the gap in computer knowledge between my younger and older students. My observations were confirmed the day a new student walked into our library area and glanced…

“Walking down a path through some woods, I saw a water puddle ahead on the path. I angled my direction to go around it on the part of the path that wasn’t covered by water and mud. As I reached the puddle, I was suddenly attacked! “Yet I did nothing…

Dust if you must but wouldn’t it be better, To paint a picture or write a letter, Bake a cake or plant a seed, Ponder the difference between want and need? Dust if you must but there’s not much time, With rivers to swim and mountains to climb, Music to…

“I’s very happy,” said Olga, a medical student, in perfect English. — in the Lynchburg (VA) Daily Advance Sadness Is No. 1 Reason Men and Women Cry — the Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald Light meals are lower in fat, calories — the Huntington Herald-Dispatch (West Virginia, Southern Ohio, and Eastern…

[Adapted from a note going around the ‘net] No nursing home for me. I am checking into the Holiday Inn! With the average cost for a nursing home per day reaching nearly $200.00, there is a better way when I get old & feeble. I have already checked on reservations…

Sport’s Nicknames of famous athletes are sometimes funny and often descriptive. How good is your knowledge of these oddly-named Sports stars? 1 Jim Grant (baseball) – 2 Ron Jaworski (football) – 3 Willie Mays (baseball) – 4 Michael Jordan (basketball) – 5 Lou Gehrig (baseball) – 6 George Lemon (basketball)…