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Bandit made a "squirrel run" yesterday morning. That's what I call it when I look out the kitchen window at the bird feeder on the back porch railing, notice a familiar, very fat grey visitor with a luxurious tail dipping into my eight-dollars-a-five-pound-bag of hulled sunflower seeds, and whisper the magic words to my dog: "Hey Bandit, there's a squirrel!!" The squirrel's not a dumb fellow,...

I am a new 'Growing Bolder' member as of 13 Jan 2010. As an introduction, I offer the following...

"I mean this, Byron – if you let them take me out of here before you finish doing my hair, I WILL come back and haunt you – I will be your worst nightmare!! Plus, I will never buy Tupperware from you again – I mean it!” My longtime hairdresser (and friend) and I were having this discussion in his shop during a thunderstorm with lots of lightning. He was in the middle of...

"Hallo, this is Jacoba speaking." "Good evening, my name is Sofie, and I have a very special...

There was a mouse in my stove, and this time I vowed "no mercy!" Yeah, right. Like we haven't...

After making her obligatory phone call to butthead, Frannie sinks her toes into the day old, half-eaten ham and pineapple pizza that is on the floor, and it feels good; really good. She likes the feeling so much that she dips her other foot in, and giggles. She then walks across the cream colored living room carpet and loves the way the marinara sauce lights it up. Wow! It pops! Nothing compares...