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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Transplanted_Texan on February 10 at 3:01 p.m.
Thanks for the link, DFO.
I’ve got three posts about the stimulus today - one about Sen. Gregg skipping the vote, one about the bill’s substance, and one about the bipartisan effort that produced it.
JeanieSpokane on February 10 at 4:18 p.m.
Great post, Sparky - I tried to comment to it, but failed:
Oh, I love this!!!! See - I’m the Mom of boys. Girls would knock on the front door - IN GROUPS to see my youngest, the Lady Killer. They would swoon, wink, blush, talk fast, and he would be all suave and debonair (and I would watch this and look at these BE-YOU-TI-FUL girls and think to myself, do they know he chewed off the heads of all his GI Joe’s?).
Sparky on February 11 at 8:44 a.m.
Jeanie, I have two girls and I see it from the other side of things. Both of my girls are not the boy chasing kind of girls. My oldest woke up one day and had developed a killer body (direct quote from one of her guy-friends). Next thing we knew, she was bombarded with hoots of appreciation. I remember one time, Princess was standing on the corner of library with me waiting for her Dad to come around and pick us up. A car came by with music blaring, they passed us slowed down on the other side for a couple of minutes and we could here some hooting from the inside. They took off and came around the block again this time, the window was rolled down and a boy yelled out I love you while waiving. Princess was in shock and kind of waived back this prompted them to come to screeching stop at the curb. They started to get out of the car while asking what she was up too. I stepped out from under the tree and said she is only 13 years old. They looked her up and down and said “Damn, call me when you are not jail bait. Love ya babe.” I have to tell you that we had a long talk with Princess that night including what Jail bait means. Princess was embarrassed and a little scared by her ability to draw attention for a while. Now, she uses it. Scary, huh. I am just grateful she is smart and snarky, this seems to intimidate boys. Hence, why the dating issue has not come up yet.
Did you do the texting phenomenon or your boys older? Princess will receive text from boys she doesn’t even know. We have changed her number at least once now. Nothing rude or sexually explicit, thank goodness. Texting is the new passing of the note, we experienced as kids. Can’t wait to meet you at the blogofest. Bring pictures…