Debbie Tanner

I'm offended when an author calls a book that was set in the 1980s historical fiction. Please. I have clothes that are older than that.

I loved this one too! Those little faces are so adorable!

Or Dan Quayle?

It's a big upgrade from yellow snow! 😆

Snow cream? You pour sweetened condensed milk onto snow and it's like ice cream. Or cafe con leche...

Same.

Or built chapels with frescoes to prove their devotion to God.

Maybe if you're using lava as a heat source, but it's hard to come by and would probably burn the onions unless you stirred them the entire 8 minutes without stopping.

It would certainly be easier to govern if everyone who disagreed was dead. So much cheaper than imprisonment.

This feels like it's maybe a little too close to the truth.

We had an all day eat-a-thon yesterday with appetizers all day. There are two big refrigerators full of food so I'm guessing today is going to be the same. So sure! Dinner at 8 pm is a great idea!

So when it's people he likes that are killed, no one can say anything bad about them, but when it's people who disagree with him, he can say anything he likes? Hypocrisy anyone?

My sister reminds me once in a while that since I'm retired, having fun IS my job. So if brunch is fun, then enjoy every minute of it.

I guess that's because the ballroom won't be ready by then?

But prices are coming down! Affordability is hoax!

Cute as an axolotl by Jess Keating?

Talk about some stellar customer service-ATT cut off our internet service this morning to coerce us into changing to fiber optic-I would have changed anyway, but is cutting me off really your best strategy? Thankfully there was a very nice customer service agent...

with leftover stuffing as the top crust.... mmmmm

Right? Like who does that? In what professional space would anyone else be allowed to that?

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That must be "stable genius" speak.

Because apparently being convicted of sexual assault isn't enough of a disqualifier?

Cover of "Time Lions and the Chrono-loop with a boy and a girl leaping over a lion surrounded by flashing lights

Cover of "the Curiosities" by W. H. Eatons A big purple tree with a boy, a bigger girl and cat running

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Doesn't it feel like Mother Nature is just showing off? Like in a good way, but somebody said "oh you can't put all those colors together like that" and she said "Yeah? Hold my beer."

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Cover of Dragonborn by Struan Murray A red and purple dragon behind an intense, windblown girl.

Cover of Outside by Jennifer Holm A girl stands before a jagged opening with a natural landscape before her. Behind her are four other kids.

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Advice which will go a long with people who rent Venice for their weddings.

And also who teaches your kids and who takes care of the old or sick people?

Please. As a Florida resident, I beg you. We don't need any more politicians here! Retired or otherwise.

And as a Florida resident, could I please say NO THANKS to another politician moving to our state to make things better? Pleeeease?