I plan on investing my $2000 stimulus check in the same place I invested my $5000 DOGE refund check.

Cool! I'll invest it in the same place I invested my $5000 DOGE check.

Don Snoreleone

The GOP is the party that believes your rights begin at conception and end at birth.

I love your excerpt, and my goodness, my heart breaks for your loss. I've always had dogs (have three currently) and they are SO important to me. I've been through that before, and it's so hard. Big hugs to you.

Here's my contribution, from "Nightingale": "What I am doing now, to spend the next decades on my little estate, growing duller and fatter and more indolent, and when I die, to be forgotten by all? That I cannot accept.”

Oh, this is brilliant!

Stop threatening me with a good time, Mikey ol' boy

Nice going!

My novel (historical/paranormal fiction, set in 13th century France and Scotland) is titled "Nightingale." I'm at 22K words! What genre is "Harvest Hills"?

Don Snoreleone

Honestly, I think it's more about "they told me no. NOBODY tells me no." He is about as extreme as a narcissist gets; nothing matters except his own desires and his own desperate need to get his way and to always be right.

Followed all!

I hear you. I had kind of a miserable childhood, too.

My wife and I have an expensive bottle of red wine set aside for the occasion.