Here we are again, scattershooting and going all over the place once more. And we're all thinking about Black Friday. I went out and people watched and browsed at a couple of area malls.

And you? Well, I guess we'll just find out this Christmas.

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If you're like me, you have favorite TV shows of years long past. And when you were a kid, you often wondered if, whenever you've missed an episode, you'd ever see that episode...

hi my name is talitha jones i been wondering about who my father is for 7 years and counting now i have been through so much stuff because i have no father in my life i look at my sister even thouht her father is dead at least she know who he was and know his side of the family than theres my brother even thought his dad is locked he still know him and than thers little old me dont know who her father is and wonder if the man she walk pass on the streets is him i think that no child should have...

Dreams are great -- that's why it's fun to buy Lotto tickets. But dreams realized can't ever be as great as the anticipation, near as I can tell from my own experience. No, I never won a Lotto, but have realized some other dreams, and they're no longer any fun.

Ambitions often change as we get into doing what it takes to realize an ambition. I'm reading "Team of Rivals" right now and find even the most successful among us (like Abe Lincoln) have no idea where their life is...

I have been married for 8 years to my husband. My best friend who happens to be an attractive gay male and whom I've been best friends with for 9 years. my problem is that my husband doesn't pay attention to me in ways that he should; my husband has always been very jealous of my friendship with my gay best friend. my husband seen us dancing a little to close, and said that it is very wrong to do that with him and it made my husband very upset. he is making me choose between them....I can't choose!...

I meet my girlfriend in may of 1996,when i saw her i told her that she was my last stop.Months later she was pregnant,by that time she and i was already living together.After our first child, two years later we had our second child,then we moved to massachusetts in 2001,where i cheated on her,but felt guilty and shameless ,i told her as soon as i got home.I also find out that night ,that she was pregnant with our 3rd child.Then 4 years later we moved again.At this time i had join the service,spent...