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No-one ever told me before today it is possible to lose a shoe while skydiving.  I was with two other first timers, and all three of us immediately tightened our shoes.  "If you lose one, just kick the other one off so you don't look like an

I'm posting this here because I'm the only one in class who had the book ahead of time (Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Journal by Alexandra Johnson) so everyone else is running a week behind.  I hate being first to post.  I had my first

Quantum is about two years old now, she was our house warming present from Pat and Jodi.  Her tail had been crushed, and then amputated since it wouldn't have healed, so she's a bobtail cat.  Her previous owners didn't want her without the tail,

The big event in the 1980s for me was moving from the new house to That House. The 1980s was when we moved from Stowemarket, a small village in Suffolk, England, to Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk.  We bought That House in 1981.  It seemed like a decent house

From Philip Gerard's "Writing a book that makes a difference" If you had the power to instantaneously change one thing in the world that didn't affect you personally, what would it be?  Why would you change it?  What's the most eloquent argument

Hubby and I went on our first ever float trip this weekend, on the Black River, with a whole pile of people, friends and family of friends.  After three days of solid rain, the river looked high and there was a noticeable current. Our first capsize happened about five minutes

(US Translation: bonnet = hood, boot = trunk, exhaust = tailpipe) We've been idly looking for the Mini dealer for about a year now, ever since we saw the web site.  On Saturday we got there and test drove a Mini Cooper S.  First, the dull technical stuff: 1.6 litre