notebook: Browse The Strips
Tuesday, May 27, 1986
Sunday, June 1, 1986
Friday, September 5, 1986
Saturday, September 6, 1986
Monday, August 24, 1987
Wednesday, January 18, 1989
Wednesday, September 20, 1989
Monday, May 25, 2015
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Sunday, May 31, 2015
Lynn's Comments: This was a scenario from home. My daughter, Katie, had, at the age of four, learned how to use a screwdriver, and had gone about my mother-in-law's house unscrewing things. Ruth tried to open a kitchen cupboard door and it came off in her hands along with the handle. We were both perplexed. How in the world had all the screws come loose? We looked about for Katie and found her outside in the driveway trying to take the license plates off my car!
Friday, September 4, 2015
Lynn's Comments: As soon as I could talk and interact with other kids, I knew there was a hierarchy, a pecking order into which I had to fit. In the classroom and out in the playground, I knew where I was welcome and where I wasn't. So many different elements came into play: temperament, ability, looks, interests, even cleanliness were things we considered before friendship could begin.
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Lynn's Comments: The names in the first panel are all names of people with whom I went to elementary school.
Monday, August 22, 2016
Lynn's Comments: This is true. I still love the smell of new erasers! Is "Pink Pearl" still being made? I wonder!
Wednesday January 17, 2018
Wednesday September 19, 2018
Lynn's Comments: I once bit the coil off my scribbler. It was exhilarating…but hard on the teeth.
"What do you call a dog with no legs? --. It doesn't matter. He won't come anyway."
(This works.)
"What would you call a dog if it didn't have any legs" --It doesn't matter because he wouldn't come if you called him anyway!"
(This one you stumble over.)
It takes time to learn how to write with an economy of words; to be able to engage your audience thoroughly and not waste precious seconds on "roadblocks." More after dinner speeches should be written this way!