A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. - Amelia Earhart

Happy National Carrot Cake Day!

Fri Feb 3, 2012 6:31 PM EST

Oh, drool! Today is the day set aside each year to celebrate that most delectable of confections, the carrot cake. If you're anything like me, this is a wonderful day indeed.

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Happy National Adopt a Senior Pet Month!

Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:19 AM EST

November is National Adopt a Senior Pet Month, a time of the year devoted to raising awareness of the benefits and joys of adopting an older pet.

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animals, cats, dogs, us-news, pets, animal-shelters, pet-adoption, senior-pets, november-holidays, human-issues

Happy National Deviled Egg Day!

Wed Nov 2, 2011 9:00 AM EDT

Yup, even deviled eggs get their own day. It's November 2nd of each year. Somehow, that seems totally appropriate, coming on the heels of Halloween.

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food, eggs, cooking, recipes, home-garden, rachael-ray, cooking-shows, deviled-eggs, november-holidays, national-deviled-egg-day

Want an Out-of-this World Experience? Try LillyDale, NY

Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:15 PM EDT

Looking for a tourist spot a little beyond the norm? A bit out of this world? You might enjoy a visit to Lily Dale, NY. Located in Western NY about an hour south of Buffalo, Lily Dale is a private, spiritualist community and home of the Lily Dale Spiritualist Assembly.

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entertainment, ny, halloween, paranormal, psychics, spiritualism, mediums, lily-dale, spiritualist-healers

Newsvine Vinemeet 2011 Recap - From Scorch the Dragon's Perspective

Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:11 AM EDT

By GoodBen (Clipped by Sydney - 5)

Hi everyone. Scorch here. For those of you that don’t know, I am a dragon, YES a dragon. Impressive, I know. However, I am not like the other dragons you may have come across. I am a friendly dragon and small.

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newsvine, sally, not-news, dragon, downs, tyler, churchill, vinemeet, scorch, dowser

Fundraising and Fun for Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Victims

Wed Jun 1, 2011 7:17 PM EDT

Residents of New York's Capital region, including myself, had a real treat in store recently when we attended a fundraiser for the Japan earthquake and tsunami victims.

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entertainment, fundraisers, martial-arts, calligraphy, origami, japanese-culture, feng-shui, good-news-wednesday, japan-japan-tsunami-and-earthquake, traditional-japanese-dance

Dog escapes yard, runs half-marathon

Fri May 20, 2011 4:48 PM EDT

By Kristen Seymour, msnbc.com - Only on msnbc.com (Clipped by Sydney - 5)

Many runners know that some of the best running buddies in the world come on four legs. Normally, they also come with a leash and an owner, but that wasn’t the case for Dozer, a 3-year-old goldendoodle that escaped the invisible fencing of his home and crossed the finish line of the on May 15.

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health, marathon, runners, dozer, targetblank, only-on-msnbc-com, today-pets--animals, maryland-half-marathon, espn-page, jon-sevel

Obituaries for Pets: What Do You Think (Poll)

Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:23 PM EDT

I saw something that surprised me the other day: an obituary or death notice for a pet. It appeared on the website of a local funeral home. The people whose pet it was used to live in our area but had moved out of state.

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obituaries, cats, dogs, pets, mourning, death-notices, funeral-customs

What is Your Favorite Groucho Marx Quote?

Fri Apr 8, 2011 5:44 PM EDT

I love Groucho Marx. All I have to do is think about that zany, low slung walk of his, and I smile. And if I actually see it in one of his old movies, I'm howling with laughter.

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entertainment, comedy, classic-movies, famous-quotes, groucho-marx, classic-tv

Career Opportunities for Your Out-of-Work Dog :)

Wed Apr 6, 2011 9:53 PM EDT

Is your dog out of work? Maybe the victim of downsizing, after some shorter legged breed snatched up his job and ran off with it? Is he spending his days padding the pavement looking for a job, sniffing out every possible lead? Or perhaps he's just in the market for a career cha …

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humor, dogs, bed-bugs, pest-control, home-protection, employment-opportunities, canine-pest-control, scent-detection-dogs

What are Your Favorite Love Songs?

Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:38 AM EST

There's nothing like the fast approaching Valentine's Day and TV programming full of romantic movies to get me thinking about my all time favorite love songs.

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entertainment, romance, andrea-bocelli, rock-and-roll, valentines-day, michael-buble, love-songs, doo-wop-music, broadway-musicals, romantic-songs

What Are Your Favorite Romantic Movies?

Wed Feb 9, 2011 4:14 AM EST

Valentine's Day is almost here, and, of course, that means romantic movies. Regardless of the movie, I like to laugh, and I also appreciate a movie that makes me think (although not too hard).

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entertainment, romance, movies, humphrey-bogart, valentines-day, casablanca, romantic-comedy, classic-movies, romantic-movies

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It's that Time of the Year Again to Think about Lost Celebs

Sun Jan 2, 2011 12:13 AM EST

It started about mid-December, just as it does every year. On both network and cable TV news, on the Internet, and in print media. The annual lists of celebs and other notables who've left us over the past twelve months.

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entertainment, actors, celebrities, movies, entertainment-news, new-years, authors, tv-shows, celebrity-deaths, years-end

What's the Best Christmas Present You Ever Received?

Wed Dec 22, 2010 3:25 PM EST

I wrote an article a while back asking people to share their family Christmas traditions. As I wrote it, I realized that I was having trouble remembering any of the Christmas presents I'd received as a child.

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children, toys, humor, christmas, holidays, not-news, christmas-presents, toy-trains, christmas-memories

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What Were Your Family's Christmas Traditions?

Wed Dec 1, 2010 12:15 AM EST

As I watched my neighbor hang his outdoor lights yesterday - something I've seen him do each year for over twenty years - I started thinking about the Christmases I had as a child and the holiday traditions in our family. Much of what we did was pretty standard.

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children, horses, memories, christmas, holidays, pets, traditions

Did You Support Small Business Saturday? Poll

Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:24 PM EST

Today was Small Business Saturday, a new event sponsored by American Express to boost the sales of small, local merchants.

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business, american-express, retail, consumerism, local-business, small-business-saturday

What a Girl Wants - For Christmas

Wed Dec 23, 2009 8:31 PM EST

I was just out and about grabbing a few last minute presents and was amazed at all the shoppers still out there. Wow. There are actually lots of people who procrastinate as much as I do!

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women, fashion, shopping, trends, christmas, jewelry, clothing, gifts, teens

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Recipe Central-- Links to the Recipes for Charity

Wed Dec 2, 2009 2:08 PM EST

By Dowser (Clipped by Sydney - 5)

Our On-line Cookbook is going great guns, but we need more recipes! Thanks to all our contributors!

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charity, recipes, seafood, vegetables, home-garden

Who is Your All Time Favorite Sesame Street Character? (Poll)

Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:38 PM EST

Today is Sesame Street's fortieth anniversary. Forty wonderful years of Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Elmo, and the rest of the gang. In our homes and in our children's lives.

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entertainment, anniversary, muppets, parenting, sesame-street, childrens-entertainment

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Do You Plan on Dressing Up Your Pet for Halloween? (Poll)

Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:47 PM EDT

There was a time when I thought that dressing up pets was weird. Not to mention annoying for the pets. Then I became "mom" to several fur persons – three dogs and a cat, to be specific – who loved dressing up.

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halloween, cats, horses, dogs, pets, polls, pet-owners, pet-insurance, companion-animals, trick-or-treating

(Halloween Humor).....Or.....The Undead Sure Know How to Party

Wed Oct 28, 2009 2:09 PM EDT

When my kids were younger, I took them out trick-or-treating one dark Halloween evening in our suburban neighborhood. Our first stop was the one they'd been talking about for a week, the house three doors down where the new family had turned their front yard into an outdoor House …

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neighbors, halloween, humor, parenting, costumes, vampires, neighborhoods, trick-or-treating, practical-jokes

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Do You Decorate Your Home for Halloween? (Poll)

Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:14 PM EDT

It's October 24. A week before Halloween. That means that I've just spent the better part of the past five weeks in my annual pre-Halloween battle of wills with the forces of evil, those that would turn my house and yard into a vision of unspeakable horror.

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home, halloween, decorating, home-garden

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(Humor) Would You Marry a Vampire? (Poll)

Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:24 PM EDT

If you've been watching any TV this month, you may have noticed that this year's pre-Halloween programming is full of vampires.

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entertainment, romance, halloween, humor, horror, vampires, relationships, tv-shows, marrriage

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A Halloween Question: What's Your Favorite Scary TV Show?

Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:42 AM EDT

I'm a sucker for scary entertainment, and last week, I had a real treat. As part of their pre-Halloween line-up, the SyFy Channel trotted out and dusted off several episodes of the late, lamented (by me, anyway) series Brimstone. A veritable Brimstone-athon. I was thrilled.

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entertainment, halloween, horror, tv-shows, scary-entertainment

(Humor) Top Ten Reasons Why the French Should Have Said No to a McDonalds at the Louvre

Mon Oct 5, 2009 11:43 PM EDT

By now, most of us have heard that soon a McDonalds will be opening in an underground area adjacent to the Louvre. The end of civilization as we know it? Well, that's pretty much my take on it, anyway.

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entertainment, art, mcdonalds, humor, the-louvre, french-culture

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You are one of the bright spots on NV. It brightens my day to read your popsts and comments.
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Happy Halloween!!!
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Sydney- Thanks! And, it is so great to meet another Best Friend!! I hope that hubby and I can make it there late next spring-it's only about 10 hours away and I want to help out...I think with the dogs, maybe the cats, or, maybe the horses! LOL!
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Sydney .. I have so enjoyed reminiscing about our perfect little angels (with 4 legs) on the "Dogs get human names as they become part of family" story. I don't think them becoming part of the family is anything new though. At least not for me, it's been that way my whole life and we're talking the last 52 years! LOL Animal lovers do seem to find one another rather easily and quickly. We also, most definitely, stand together when the circumstances warrant. Thank you for accepting my friend invite! I look forward to many more brag sessions! Gotta run for now, Gizmo had surgery Wednesday (neutered and micro-chipped) so he's a bit demanding .. and, of course, I allow it. LOL .. Keep in touch! .. Mary Jane aka MJ aka Husker88Fan (Omaha, Nebraska)
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