Here's to the original beauty queen

Tammy Faye Messner dies at 65

Probably better known as ( Tammy Faye Bakker )

So this is kind of sad for me. I basically grew up with Tammy Faye. I can't remember a time when Tammy Faye wasn't on TV at my Grandma's house. My Grandma almost single-handedly helped in the building of the PTL ministry. And as odd and crazy as she sometimes seemed to be, I have great respect for her. She's such a pop culture icon that it would be remiss not to notice that she's gone.

Peace be with you.

Question to anyone who book swaps

I guess that means you ajayne since I know you use paperbackswap.com.

So when you have a book that is requested and the requestor has conditions for accepting the book, do you a) really want to get rid of the book, so make sure that your book definitely meets the requestor's conditions or b) figure that someone else will request the book without conditions so save it for later?

I guess I'm a bit annoyed because I've posted 8 books this week that were all on someone's wishlist. Which is nice because I know that the book isn't going to sit around here. But about half of the requests had weird ass restrictions. The non-smoking, non-cat/dog/pet, non-library request I understand. Those can be serious issues for some people. And other things like dirty books and torn covers, I understand. However, I'd like for the people who use those restrictions to be a little nicer in their words. They're a bit hostile. But I had one this week that was "no books that look previously read". Ummm, hello, this is a book swapping community. And today was the "I don't accept books from smoking or pet homes." - OK - "Nor do I accept bookcrossing.com books". For some reason today, that last line ticked me off. I would hope that most people wouldn't send out books that they wouldn't want to get. Anyway, I guess I'm complaining to complain.

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We're all connected like the scarf, one piece of yarn.
If you cut it up into little pieces, it's useless. You can't make anything out of it.
We're all responsible - everything that we touch, everything that touches us.


Connections exist long before we're aware of them.
They've always existed.
They always will.


from Joan of Arcadia Season 2