DailySally - Stories From A Life
Sally Swift
- Location
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Birthday
- June 14
- Title
- Wordsmith in Chief
- Company
- DailySally.com
- Bio
- sally: a journey, a venture, an expression of feeling, an outburst, a quip, a wisecrack ... me
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Steve, you snuck in on
me... and you're absolutely
right.
Plus, nobody has to
do…”
6:58PM - “Verbalicious, right back
atcha.
Claytonia,
you're right, I'm right...
we've become…”
6:57PM - “Real family, real life.
Nice reality check. Have
whatever
kind of Thanksgiving
yo…”
6:48PM - “I'm with Owl, pics of
the feast, please! I love all
of this
and am just
wondering…”
6:38PM - “Wow do you have a LOT to
be thankful for... and so do
they.
You are clearly a
won…”
6:35PM
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- Stories From A Life
Below is the
result of a writing assignment given by an English professor from
the University of Colorado. A “tandem story”
was to be written by two students, one male, one female.
The story was to be compiled in alternating paragraphs via email,
with CC’s to… Read full post »
Just in Time for Christmas, The Teflon Freak
It takes faith to believe in
Santa Claus. And in Michael Jackson. Reminder: keep
your kids away from the latter.
When Jacko was on trial in 2005 for molesting children, I'm proud
to say I showed great restraint. My lips were sealed throughout
virtually the whole circus -- though, to be… Read full post »
[This sometimes shows as a video inside a video and I can't seem to fix it, so if it does that, just click on the rotating arrow inside the smaller window and it will enlarge to normal size. Sorry.]
This came to me from a friend with whom I used to work in/… Read full post »
Michael Phelps might be in trouble, but he's in pretty high end company, scandal-wise. The reporter who broke the Big Bong Story is Georgina Dickinson, the US Editor of the English tabloid News of the World. She's the scandal-monger who brought us Sarah Palin in a hot red swimsuit,/… Read full post »
My Top Ten Cheesy Movies - Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner
Queen of My World started this
with My 10 Favorite Cheesy
Movies. Her criteria are "the movies you
secretly love, but are too ashamed to admit to anyone
that you even watch, let alone enjoy."
She's got some wonderfully cheesy movies on her list and so do
others.
Most of
Picturing War, From Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." Robert E. Lee
This is the 34th anniversary of end of the War in Vietnam. It's being ignored. And that's wrong. As history is doomed to repeat itself, we are also meant to learn from… Read full post »
LA Times ariel photo of the crash site,
firefighters spraying foam during rescue..
"His nose was up, but
he was coming down. When I saw that, I said, 'he's in trouble.'"
Bill Fulco, crash witness
"The engine was still running, but just as I lost sight of the
plane, there/… Read full post »
This post was already planned, but I was inspired to publish it now by Matt Morris' hilarious post Britney Spears is F*@%!ng With My Creative Process.
"I do want to go to college. Right now I want to focus on my music, but I definitely want something to
… Read full post » 
I never wanted to marry, which is odd because even though I've sown my share of wild oats around the globe, I'm basically a monogamous homebody. Wherever I've lived, I've created a nest. And preferred only one man at a time to share it with me. But never
… Read full post »
This post was inspired by
Gwool's review of sex studies, Ideal Time For Sex Is How
Long???? And by Meg Ryan.
"The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are
identical." Wilhelm Reich
A book came out a couple years ago which is still the
object of substantial scientific/… Read full post »
What Kind Of Mood Are You In?
Seems people are having some moods lately. Feeling under the weather or beset by the weather. Feeling blue. Out of sorts. Grumpy. Needing some OS love.
I thought maybe our animal friends might help. Which one are you?In a bad mood...
Feeling a little sorry for yourself...
%IMAG
… Read full post »
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day: "Never Again" UPDATE
6.11.09 ... In light of recent events, let's review. The Holocaust was horribly real. Anti-Semitism is alive and well in the 21st Century. Racism and hatred and violence in the unholy name of twisted religious righteousness is on the rise. To the rallying cry Never Again it seems we are forced… Read full post »
Me, near the beginning of Before, @200 pounds: (still searching for those hidden pics that will truly show the SIZE, since I can't show the PAIN)
[Found some... still looking...]
@200 pounds &nbs… Read full post »
Ever since viewing one five-minute segment of the children's TV show "Barney and Friends" I have been eternally grateful that our son, and therefore his parents, missed the Singing Purple T-Rex era ... if only by inches.
There's not enough insulin in the world to have gotten us… Read full post »
UPDATE: LETTERMAN'S FULL DESCRIPTION
"I'm motivated by
nothing but guilt. If you know anything about me, I am just a
towering mass of Luthern, Midwestern guilt." David
Letterman
Yes, his revelations Thursday night were stunning and handled with
David Let… Read full post »
"Never continue in a
job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll
like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, you
will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."
Johnny Carson
Late Night TV was created by Jack Parr… Read full post »
Tests, Tattoos and Temperance - Are You A Jerk?
***Tests***
It's time for a couple of those
silly tests. Here's the first one. Just
sayin...
ARE YOU A
JERK? <-- TAKE THE
TEST
I am not a jerk, which I hope surprises no one:
You treat everyone as fairly as possible. You think it's
important to be good to people.
You may… Read full post »
"It's the genteel anti-Semitism of the time. Jews were
politely shut out of the country clubs and the higher echelons of
WASP culture." Dan Wackerman
Racism is much in the news lately. Religion and
religious extremism has been getting a lot of play too. It's all
made me remember (not tha… Read full post »
Patients shall have the right to:
- Considerate and respectful care at all times and appreciation for
their individual dignity. PATIENT'S BILL OF RIGHTS, Boca Raton
Community Hospital
Everything in this Healthcare Nightmare is true. It
happened to my parents this week. And they're among… Read full post »
Treat Williams, not Fred, but there's a striking resemblance, so this is how I remember him.
Brian B got a lot of us thinking and reminiscing with his post Do You Remember Your First Kiss?. I was going to answer as a comment, but you know me, the… Read full post »
Okay, busted. I'm a Miss America fan. Not just any fan -- I have a 100% perfect, unblemished record of picking every single winner since 1960. Usually from… Read full post »
Déjà vu all over again. Fate--in the person of a new
OS blogger--has now told me it's time to tell the version I heard,
supposedly from the horse's mouth, of what really happened almost
40 years ago at
Chappaquiddick.
In a thoughtful post called My Kennedy mystery, wr/… Read full post »
[P]erhaps the worst thing about the breakup is the fact that music gets caught in the fallout."
I found a web site called Ruined Music where people share stories of break-ups that made the music die. It struck a cord with me, so to speak. And seemed especially appropriate with the outrag/… Read full post »
"We Are The World" (If Only) *UPDATED FOR MICHAEL
* Thursday, June 25, 2009 ... A legend
died this day. A giant in the world of pop music. Like him
or not, Michael Jackson was one of the most
talented artists, gifted performers and universal trend setters the
popular music business has ever seen.
We will not see his like… Read full post »
MORE Nude Oscar Nominees! (I Need to Lay Off the Nyquil)
I'll be watching the Oscars this year with a whole new sensibility. And not necessarily in a good way. Because I accidentally happened on a couple of um, specialized web sites and have now seen nude photos of eight of the 2009 Academy Award female nominees. And several of the/… Read full post »
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