Vicious nuns

  • 2nd Grade & Why I’m Not Catholic

      The piece below recounts the actual events of a day at St. James Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL. 1966, or so.  I flunked a phonics test and Sister Eleanor is scowling like Satan: goose-stepping back and forth, spitting “God Hates You Brats.” She doesn’t know that God likes kids, even brats and kids who

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  • 3TC MM20 | Margins of Mayhem

    Welcome to the daily Three Things Challenge.Use your imagination and creativity using one, two or all three words that may or may not be related. There are no restrictions regarding length, style, or genre, though please keep it family friendly. Tag your responses with 3TC, #threethingschallenge or TTC, and you can add Di’s logo if

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  • Greg & Iggy

    Greg & Iggy

    He’d been waiting for an hour. Well, maybe not a whole hour, but it sure felt like it. The little girl who sat next to him had been waiting for a long time, too. He could tell by the way she squirmed in her seat and the panic in her eyes. A second-grader with three

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