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Re: Adopted Dog With Multiple Issues, The Animal Doctor | uexpress

mrs_helm — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 12:56:52 -0000

Contact a few Border Collie rescue groups, and see if they can help you find someone willing to take this dog. There are people who find it very rewarding to work a training schedule, overcome challenges, and bring a dog back to a healthy place. This dog is NOT beyond being helped - there are many worse than him who've been saved. But it sounds like this commitment is more than you were prepared for.

Re: Are You Clutter-Blind? Or Do You Know Someone Who Is?

mrs_helm — Mon, 16 May 2016 13:18:20 -0000

I am clutter blind and I can say that it isn't so much "not see" as "not a problem". If it's " in progress ", and I put it there - not a problem. If I don't know what else to do with it yet- not a problem. If there is a plan for it (X goes out Tuesday) - not a problem. We dealt w it h this in our marriage by having certain spaces that are "clutter free zones" (kitchen counters, entry table) and I have an office where all my "in progress" stuff lives.

Re: Online Ordination Is Questioned by Disapproving Wedding Guest

mrs_helm — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 13:41:42 -0000

Any worse than being married by a cruise ship captain?

Re: Creative Writing 101, or, Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Rules for Writing Fiction.

mrs_helm — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 09:08:58 -0000

I don't think it is necessary to "be a sadist" to reveal someone's character. Plenty of people's character is revealed in the little things they do (or don't do) in daily life and interactions. That said, if the "awful things" are the story - if their ability to keep their character, or their growth or change, in the face of these things...if that is the story, then this makes sense.

Number 8 - giving your readers all the information. I sort of agree, but I don't want the story to be so transparent that I could write the ending myself...why finish the book then? I would rather have the information be there, but in a sort of way that at the end I think "wow, of course he did...it makes total sense, but I never would have thought of that". Then when I re-read it, I pick up on the things I missed. (My husband and I agree that our favorite movies are ones where watching them a second or third time, you see things you missed, but that add meaning or understanding or humor. Like "Signs".)

Re: Microsoft Unveils New Plan to Speed Up the Web

mrs_helm — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:33:04 -0000

Wait...HTTP S&M? It isn't April 1st yet, is it?

Re: Ten Tips for Getting Along with Your Mother-In-Law.

mrs_helm — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:46:27 -0000

Come prepared to distract. If you find your conversations always devolve into the subjects you argue about, then on your next visit come prepared with distractions. If possible, plan to get out in public and do something - such as minature golf. Or bring your newest/favorite board game or card game...and ask them if they have a favorite game to play as well. Find out about their hobbies or interests, and get them talking about those instead. Keep them busy enough with other things, and they might not get around to nagging you about your parenting. Plus, they'll be having such a good time they might decide you aren't so bad after all.

Re: Idea #6 Innovation Cards

mrs_helm — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:41:30 -0000

You should talk that up with Roger von Oech. It sounds a lot like his "Whack Packs", only with bloggers instead of philosophers.
http://blog.creativethink.c...

Re: Idea #1 Coffee Card

mrs_helm — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:43:59 -0000

The punch cards kindof suck, because the shop will only accept their own cards. But there is a site that combines your scannable 'loyalty' cards.
http://www.justoneclubcard....