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Meet a Families.com Blogger – Courtney Mroch!

Courtney Mroch is the next awesome blogger to be featured here in our Families.com Blogger series. Courtney, thanks for taking the time to chat with me today. How long have you blogged for Families.com? I started in December 2006. What topics do you blog about? I started out assigned to Pets, but in September 2007 I also took on Marriage. But I like to guest blog in Food, Travel, Computing, and have recently ventured into new territories in Home, Money, and Health. What is your favorite thing about blogging for Families.com? Hands down, my fellow bloggers and the readers! (Something … Continue reading →

In Memoriam – 2006

Each year, we lose many talented and brilliant celebrities. Some are taken in what seems like an untimely manner while others live to a ripe old age. Here are some of the people we lost in 2006: Lou Rawls, 72 – singer January 6th Rawls was known for his R&B hits such as “”You’ll Never Find, Another Love Like Mine.” Shelley Winters, 83 – Actress January 14th Shelley won two Oscars for supporting roles in The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue. Wilson Pickett, 64 – Singer January 19th Wilson was famous for such hits as “In … Continue reading →

Andy Griffith Dies at 86

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This week, America lost a true television icon – Andy Griffith. The actor passed away suddenly – well, at least the news seemed sudden to me – July 3rd at the age of 86. I guess when we lose someone like Andy Griffith, someone who lived such a long life; it is hard to be too sad. But certainly, if you are like me, you feel like part of your childhood died with him. Griffith, a native North Carolinian, started his career back in the mid-fifties when he wrote “What it Was, Was Football.” If you’ve ever heard this monologue, … Continue reading →

Hee Haw Tragedy: Stringbean

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The other day, I blogged about the death of “Hee Haw” regular Jim Hager. Despite the wholesomeness of the show, here have been some tragedies on “Hee Haw” – LuLu Roman was suspended from the show for one year because of drug abuse, “Hee Haw” honey Marianne Gordon suffered a nasty divorce from singer Kenny Rogers, and Junior Samples died of a heart attack in 1983 while still a regular on the show. However, there was actually a “Hee Haw” murder that some people don’t know about. David “Stringbean” Akeman came from a musical family. During a performance with Asa … Continue reading →

Hee Haw Loses a Twin

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When I was growing up, there were only four channels and that included PBS, which when I was a child had THE most boring programming, even for kids. So, when Saturday afternoon rolled around, there was only one show to watch – “Hee Haw.” Yes, it was cornier than the cornfields that they told their jokes in, but the competition was – well, there really wasn’t any. The show, which started in 1969, was so wholesome that it made “Little House on the Prairie” look risqué. Even though it was cornball comedy at its best, there are some skits that … Continue reading →

Dogs Detecting Cancer: Does It Provoke Attacks?

As I wrote last week in National Pet Cancer Awareness: What You Should Know, November is Pet Cancer Awareness Month. As I also wrote in that article, pet cancer reminds me of Budly because that’s why we had to put him to sleep. But the week before Budly’s health took such a nose dive that we had to rush him to the animal ER, he got attacked. The Attack We were out for our usual morning walk and had stopped to talk with a neighbor who had just gotten a chocolate lab puppy. All of a sudden this huge dog … Continue reading →

Gerald Ford Dies

They always say death comes in threes, which really doesn’t make much sense because if you wait long enough, someone else is going to die eventually. This week I had written about the passing of Senator Robert Stafford. Then on Christmas day, soul legend James Brown passed away. Yesterday, I wrote my “In Memorium – 2006” blog for all those we had lost this year. As I pressed the button to save the blog, I thought to myself “Well, we do still have a few more days in the year – what if someone else dies?” But I convinced myself … Continue reading →