These little guys (called tumblers, or tumble sets, from Fitz & Floyd — I only have two sets so they aren’t really one of my “collections” . . . YET) are currently adorning the corner of my to-be-read bookshelf.
Just sharing a piece of Halloween cuteness on this cold, rainy, blustery weekend.
As you were.
🙂
Continue readingI have an interesting job. Throughout the course of my week/month/year, I visit board rooms and bedrooms, classrooms and hospital rooms; I am attendant at weddings and funerals, at births and deaths; my presence (and the reason for it) is necessary for a multitude of events, the depth and breadth of which is sometimes only an inch deep but is more than a mile wide.
One of my favorite things about my job is that I often get to work with people who say what they really think.
When those people doing the ‘saying what they think’ are children, it often tickles my funny bone.
As, yesterday, was the case:
My young client, carefully collecting large yellow leaves from the ground, asked of the therapist I was working with: Why are these leaves all beautiful and yellow but that one — she pointed to a brown, withered leaf — is all crunchy?
The therapist thought for a moment and then answered, “Well, maybe that crunchy leaf is old.”
To which my young charge responded: …OH. Well, that makes sense. I mean, old people are crunchy too.
Continue readingExcerpt from Society News, October 1897
Miss Ophelia Thistlewaite, soon to be Mrs Jedediah Oren, has been seen about town wearing a gold chain about her neck to which is attached a large charm in the shape of a key. This new fashion has turned many curious heads and more than one young lady has decided it must be that Ms Thistlewaite carries around her neck the key to Mr Oren’s heart. Neither party will comment, but this writer overheard a punch-bowl whisper at the Abernathy’s Friday fete that it is “key to much more impertinent an organ than a heart.” Perhaps this ornament is due to become the newest fashion this autumn season?
Continue readingTrainer’s Log: Exercise Room Training, Parsin Estate, September 1897
5 Sept. TRAINING. Subject: Jedediah Oren; Trainers: Miss Wunderly (unclothed) and Miss Straton (clothed) — stimulation applied, alternating speed of stroke continually — reactions: tumescence, shivering, protuberance of vein along shaft, shortness of breath, loss of balance, eventual faint. Control excellent. No expulsion of seed.
8 Sept. TRAINING. Subject: Jedediah Oren; Trainer: Miss Wunderly (clothed) — subject non-combative, appeared dazed, asked if in a dream — general attitude: responsive, cooperative — change of stimulus: held small portrait of subject’s fiancee, Miss O.T., in front of his eyes while applying stimulation — reactions: sweat, shivering, immediate tumescence, leaking of clear viscus fluid from the tip of his member, shortness of breath, vocalizations mimicking the throat-growl of a dog waiting to pounce. Arousal heightened compared to 5 Sept. Control excellent.
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