gaylegcurtin

Author, retired insurance professional, volunteer, and member of Author's Guild Tennessee.

Getting out of a wet paper bag

The quote today is the Free Dictionary’s definition of the phrase “one’s way out of a wet paper bag”: A phrase used to emphasize that one is particularly dimwitted, unintelligent, incompetent, or unable to do something basic, simple, or straightforward.  It’s me. I can’t find my way out of anywhere I have to say I take exception to the above definition since I get lost quite easily. Perhaps I could, in fact, find my way

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Forget brand squabbles – Mayonnaise or Miracle Whip?

It’s weird how the mind remembers the silly details. I still can’t remember the colour of my wife’s eyes, but I can remember that we were arguing about mayonnaise. ~ Matthew Munson, Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology Survey results Clearly, I am some sort of masochist. I know this, since I once again sought to confirm my

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Daffodils say, “spring is on the way & Winter is dead.”

“She turned to the sunlight    And shook her yellow head,And whispered to her neighbor:    “Winter is dead.”~ A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young Most of the world calls these lovely blooms daffodils. To me, they will always be buttercups. Whatever you call them, they are symbols of the easing of cold weather and, very often, markers of

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