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We’re making plans to meet hubby’s family in Kansas.
They’ve never heard of vegetarians before. You don’t eat
meat, they asked, but do you eat chicken? No fish? No pork?
You don’t eat ANYTHING? We’re from different planets.

World’s Largest Ball of Sisal Twine (Cawker City, Kansas)
How to make a Family Disaster Plan (wikihow.com)
Tornado Safety (Kansas.gov)

“Men are what their mothers made them.”
Quotation by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don’t know a dowel from a spandrel from a copula. Some
day I’ll learn to recognise a corbel. I’ve added Learn about
Architecture to my lengthy “Things-To-Learn-Someday” list.

“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
Quotation from Coco Chanel

“Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form
and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in
the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.”
Quotation from Frank Lloyd Wright

The baby hippopotamus header photo was taken at the San Diego Zoo.

At what age do boys mature and become men?

Wikipedia article on Rumored “Humanzees”
Half-Human, Half-Ape by Paul Stonehill (Fate Magazine)

“True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become
a father figure to his girlfriends’ boyfriends—and he accepts it.”
Quotation from Larry McMurtry, Some Can Whistle

What Mothers Say to their Daughters:
Say anything about anyone as long as you say “Bless her heart”.
Don’t make a face, your expression might freeze that way.
Don’t read in the dark, you’ll ruin your eyes.
Never ride on a motorcycle.
Play hard to get.
Sit up straight.
Stop whining.
Bless her heart.

How to make an Origami Fortune Teller (Heather Watts)

What is your fortune, my pretty maid?
“My face is my fortune, Sir,” she said.
Nursery Rhyme

Sometimes, I count to ten before saying anything.
Then twenty. Then thirty. Finally, I don’t say anything.
Most of the time, though, I’m impatient. My words
race ahead of my brain. I have an opinion on everything.

“Our impatience betrays us into rash and
foolish alliances which no God attends.”
Quoted from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship

“Waiting for you
I’m waiting
Can’t you see I’m waiting for you
Don’t break my heart”
Song by Madonna, Waiting

I have special needs.
No, I’m not handicapped (in a conventional way).
I just think I’m special.
Or more to the point,
I like to be treated as someone special.

“Who we are has been sidetracked by labels for who we aren’t. Phrase names have divided us. Stay-at-home mom, new dad, parent of special needs child, working mother, job sharer, non-custodial parent, single parent, empty nesters, spouse caring for spouse, parent with teens, teenage parent, elder caregiver—these and so many other titles have put us in little niches and kept us thinking that we can’t help each other because… we are so different. But we are not a collection of separate sub-species. We caregivers are more like one another than not, no matter how we spend our days.”
Quotation from Paula C. Lowe, Care Pooling

If you have a pretty face, you can get away with
almost anything. That’s the way the world works.

Spoiled Girl Sharon Stone in Paris

“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled.
It is the secret of their attraction.”
Quotation from Oscar Wilde, Edinburgh Magazine

I’m not a fan of self-loathing. I’ve done that
and concluded it’s not attractive. It doesn’t
get you where you want or need to be.

“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile
a sin as self-neglecting.”
Quotation from William Shakespeare, Henry V

“I hear, I know. I see, I remember.
I do, I understand.”
Saying attributed to Confucious

There’s an art to writing postcards. I’m terrible at
writing them. I either have nothing to say, or I
have too much to say. Mostly, I don’t have time
to write postcards when I’m having the most fun.

Temple University Writing Center Postcard Project
(If their site is still currently down, I emailed them about it)

“And you undid the reins
and I undid the buttons,
the bones, the confusions,
The New England postcards,
the January ten o’clock night,
and we rose up like wheat…”
Poem by Anne Sexton, Us

Tomorrow’s Comic- Fall In: Equal Pee, Equal Spray

Interpol issued an international security alert this morning against vegans
being used as mules to smuggle drugs through airport security. Apparently,
vegans have thicker intestinal walls than meat-eaters, so they are less
likely to be detected by airport security. The Interpol security alert calls for
increased vigilance against all Californians, bohemians and fashion models.

Happy April Fool’s Day! (Museum of Hoaxes)
The D.B. Cooper Story: A Mystery (CrimeLibrary.com)

This is comic #299. Tomorrow is my 300th comic. C U there!