'Time Bomb'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Nugget! I love when they're sleeping in your arms, or on your lap, and they're all warm and boneless.
That's cuz we grow 'em on the boneless chicken ranch.
Matilda is totally sitting up. And then falling over. Okay, she's basically doing crunches all day, but her back is one nice strong bit of sinew now.
I love when they're sleeping in your arms, or on your lap, and they're all warm and boneless.
And she was so light! That really impressed how ittle she was (excuse the baby talk, little critters do that to me). I even snuffled her hair, but all she did was kind of blink blearily at me then continue to stare at the light.
New baby snuggles are the best.
The clean up here is mostly done, except for the stuff I need TCG to do when he gets home, so I am rewarding myself with an afternoon out with thessaly.
Sleepy baby weight is heavenly. I'm still all mushy from snuggling dear Matilda.
I'm still all mushy from snuggling dear Matilda.
She flumped so trustingly on you! Hec said, "It's 'cause Suzi has the mama-bosom." No disrespect to any of the other bosoms that snuggled her that evening, but you were definitely the most stacked.
She's on my lap now, semi-nursing (stopping every few swallows to smile up at me). So intent and merry and gracious, all at once.
Americans still have a difficult time talking about race and slavery, and the Underground Railroad deserves to be part of the national discussion. It forced Americans to think about slavery in new ways, by delivering tens of thousands of former slaves into Northern communities.
Tom, thank you so much for that article. I'm bookmarking it for use in my class this semester.
I just made my school to do list for the weekend. I really should cancel my plans for tomorrow, but I don't wanna.
Erin, you might try having the kids reinterpret their lines into modern language. for R&J and the other biggies, just have them do their major speeches.
Good link, Tom. I didn't realize that the abolitionist newspapers were running a play by play of escaped slaves.
"Henry Lee, previously of the Courtland Plantation in Mississippi has crossed the Mason-Dixon and will be closing in on Manhattan within the fortnight."
Two historical notes about American slavery in the South that were illuminating to me:
1) Many many slaves "lit out for the West" instead of heading North. Hence black cowboys and blacks being absorbed into so many Native American tribes. There were also interracial itinerant groups like the Ben Ishmaels.
2) An anthropologist analyzed the bones of slaves and said that house slaves didn't have it any better than field slaves. He pointed out the grooves that their tendons had worn in their elbow joints were very deep. That the only modern equivalent where you'd see that kind of stress on the joints was in Olympic level trained athletes. People that train at the furthest point of their physical ability 7 to 8 hours a day.