LOL, that was a lie: more than five minutes had passed. :) Good to know I didn't exceed the word count. Not good that I still don't know what happened to all the tool bars and icons - even on my phone,

Everything about this is funny, familiar (too close to home), and full of wit. I love this: Unplug your devices, if only for twenty minutes a day. If you don’t have twenty minutes, unplug for an hour.

Copy-pasted this into Word in order to learn word count, and I cannot find "word count" anywhere, though I used to know how to call it up. Also today, Chrome reconfigured the way to find Passwords.

How did I know this story was not pure fiction.... I feel your pain!

What she said. :) Car wash profiteering - not even gonna go there today. Just, #StayAWAY from these money pits.

Dang, I'm slow. "Autumn leaves," brilliant against a black background, so artsy, so Owasco. Um, those leaves didn't fall from no tree. :) Love the image, and love the prompt! (Only I would be

Maybe this betrays my age too, but I knew exactly what you meant about that icon known as Burt. Thanks for tagging me. My first thought was, "But the story is already finished! He sees the incriminating

"Oh, uh, hi. Officer." A sheriff no less. I sidled out the door, hoping to block his view of what he had already no doubt seen. He grinned. Money. Bribe him with money. This grinning sheriff

Thanks @owasco! Actually, much to my surprise, Amazon PUBLISHED my review this time. But Amazon has yet to restore a thousand reviews they purged, and there's no way all of those violated their Friends

LOL! Gotta keep on failing better...

Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight - love it! A sweet-sad opening, swelling gradually, increasing - with such patience and insistence! If that even makes sense.

That photo - now I know who jazz bassist Matt Ulery reminds me of! My son @milesvkean has taken bass lessons from Matt while living in Chicago, and he saw this incredible concert live at Millennial Park.

How I love Oscar Wilde and his wit - thank you for the roundup (my favorite: Only the shallow know themselves) - and for the Dorothy Parker quote: "If, with the literate, I am/ Impelled to try an

"Milk Tart" - all these fab family photos and memories, and I cannot get past Milk Tart. Me want! Me can't.... gluten, milk, dairy, egg, corn starch, all things corn, and nope, it's not worth

P.S. That cat, on the leaf-splattered tarmac - what a brilliant composition!

Wow! So many rich details and insights here, and appreciation for this musician. I love this: "Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything" and your addition, "That's how

Oh, you get it!!! the melancholy splendor of Fall - how bittersweet, "That burnt gold of something precious, but tarnished…" that elusive (for me) sense of wisdom, "reminding us of the

You too???? FOR REAL...???? Every day, I forget what I learned the previous day... I feel like Sisyphus with the boulder, taking all day every day to get it to the top, only to have it roll down and start

#Fasting - Intermittent Fasting, zero calorie intake for 16 hours each day, and an 8-hour window for eating and consuming beverages (or even pills!) with calories. That was the topic I expected to see

I was just checking replies to see if Rhonda had seen this post - YES - of course she has. :) The Romani (aka "gypsy") for centuries lived in homes on wheels. In part because of persecution as