Today’s Bits and Pieces: Blanky Farms Chicken

31 Dec 2008 1 Comment

by Sheila Clapkin in Letters

Dec. 29, 2008

Dear Blanky Farms Consumer Affairs, (name Blanky protects the brand name in question)

I am busy, just like you. I do not want to write this letter, but I can’t sleep at night for wanting you to know how I feel and how worried I am about your chicken product.

I am a very long time consumer of your products. I have 5 children and we do eat a lot of chicken.  Lately, I have purchased Blanky Farms chicken and it is tough.(more than once this past month) It does not cook properly and it looks wrong and it tastes wrong.  When you have cooked chicken for so many years, you know when something just is not right.  True, I do not go to the same market all of the time and do buy Blanky Farms product from different markets, but the product name is there and the product should be the same.  I do not buy off brand chickens because of the tough, wrong tasting, wrong texture I have been experiencing with your chickens lately. More

Today’s Bits and Pieces: Cuss Like a Drunken Sailor

29 Dec 2008 1 Comment

by Sheila Clapkin in Reflections

I waited with AT&T for 45 minutes to change my program to a different package. Suddenly, they switched me to a survey.  I never got my request in and never heard from a real person. I gave them very bad ratings and then they said you have 30 seconds to tell them what you think and I learned something.  I can take a shower while on speaker phone, de-ball two cashmere sweaters, clean the kitchen, make the bed, get dressed for an afternoon luncheon, sew up two pockets of my favorite all time jacket on the sewing machine and cuss like a drunken sailor for 30 seconds.

Today’s Bits and Pieces: I’ll Try Again Tomorrow

27 Dec 2008 2 Comments

by Sheila Clapkin in Poetry

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying…I will try again tomorrow.”

Today’s Bits and Pieces: An Irish Blessing

27 Dec 2008 1 Comment

by Sheila Clapkin in Poetry

“Being happy doesn’t mean everything’s perfect, It means you’ve decided to see beyond the imperfections”An Irish Blessing –

Today’s Bits and Pieces: SPARKLE AND SHINE

27 Dec 2008 Leave a comment

by Sheila Clapkin in Poetry

“People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within” Elisabeth Kubler Ross M.D.

Bits and Pieces From:Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi

10 Dec 2008 Leave a comment

by Sheila Clapkin in Poetry

Be Sun, in tenderness and mercy

Be Night, cover of disgrace

Be Stream, in gracious and generosity

Be Dead, in anger and nervousness

Be Earth, in humility and modesty

EITHER SEEM AS YOU ARE OR BE AS YOU SEEM

Come, no matter what you are,

Whether atheist or sun worshiper

Whether you’ve backslid a thousand times,

Come, no matter what you are.

Thank you for sending this Anna in Istanbul.