Visit The Directory - locate and preview unique blogs. click here.

80 Visitors are currently online including logged in users below:

Mister

Articles listed by month…

Article real-time statistics…

  • 1216Articles read today:
  • 1592Articles read yesterday:
  • 13469Articles read last week:
  • 1372432Total articles read:

Facing the Hills….

Photo Credit: Creative Commons- yalaminy

Here’s a great guest post from one of my favorite online writing buddies, Eileen Knowles. She’s funny, insightful and loves coffee as much as me – how can you NOT like somebody like that? If you’d like to write a guest post for The Daily ReTORt, check out the guidelines here: ======================================================== My family and I recently moved from North Carolina to Georgia. It’s a coming home sort of move for my husband who was born and …

Continue reading: Facing the Hills….

Those of the tyrannical persuasion

Those of the tyrannical persuasion What better way for those of the tyrannical persuasion to color themselves in the hues of perfection and ambiance and wan worlds of preciousness and precociousness than to shout tyranny this and tyranny that and rail against those who would in any way mitigate their desires and callings to hate despise, clobber, disdain, break and ruin? What better way for those of the tyrannical persuasion to color themselves …

Continue reading: Those of the tyrannical persuasion

Tips on Growing Dahlias

dahlia, yellow

Dahlias are a must for any garden, especially cutting gardens. They come in a wide variety spectacular colours, shapes and sizes! Their big, beautiful blooms will add a burst of bright colour and beauty to the summer garden. Dahlias are easily one of the most popular flowers in the garden, as they are beautiful, easy to grow and readily available. Here are some tips to growing dahlias: They do best in climate zones …

Continue reading: Tips on Growing Dahlias

Guess the Celebrity Home

Jeff Gordon New York City Apartment

Summer always brings out the kid in me. It’s the season of fun, so let’s have a little! A house doesn’t really become a home until it reflects the owner’s style and taste. Of course, style and taste don’t always go hand in hand. Even celebrities, with their limitless budgets and options, don’t always make the wisest decisions when it comes to interior design, but I’m always intrigued by their choices. Whether quirky, opulent …

Continue reading: Guess the Celebrity Home

Play into their hands

Play into their hands So the government now knows all the stuff that we poor bastards have been giving away for free to corporate America and corporate world and corporate hackers and sweet little second graders in Dubuque and we are are charged, chagrined, apoplectic and mercilessly scared. So they have our thoughts, our dreams, our movements, our loves, our hates, our night sweats and our false stories and false hearts. They have our …

Continue reading: Play into their hands

Friends and Strangers Can Get People Talking to Each Other

Book-Shop-model-house-in-garden-768x1024

Hubby and I were treated Sunday night to a delightful home-cooked dinner at our friend Anne’s friends Bonnie and Ron’s home—in a heretofore unexplored (by us) location. Our Garmin failed us as we neared their residence, and our sense of direction did, too. But luckily, the hostess had said they were on a circle, so we figured out we could keep going and we’d get another chance at it. I did joke, as …

Continue reading: Friends and Strangers Can Get People Talking to Each Other