Phyllis Diller Remembered

A friend sent this to me
With love,
Russ
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. 
-Phyllis Diller
  
Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance? 
-Phyllis Diller
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
-Phyllis Diller 

The reason women don’t play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.
-Phyllis Diller
Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out. 
-Phyllis Diller 

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. 
-Phyllis Diller
I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them. 
-Phyllis Diller
  
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. 
-Phyllis Diller
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. 
-Phyllis Diller 

We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up. 
-Phyllis Diller
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. 
-Phyllis Diller
  
What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. 
-Phyllis Diller
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. 
-Phyllis Diller
  
His finest hour lasted a minute and a half. 
-Phyllis Diller
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. 
-Phyllis Diller 

My photographs don’t do me justice -they just look like me. 
-Phyllis Diller
I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away. 
-Phyllis Diller
  
Tranquillizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle –  keep away from children. 
-Phyllis Diller
I asked the waiter, ‘Is this milk fresh?’ He said, ‘Lady, three hours ago it was grass.’ 
-Phyllis Diller 

The reason the golf pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing. 
-Phyllis Diller
You know you’re old if they have discontinued your blood type.
-Phyllis Diller
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My First Novelette

I’m writing a story that has the working title of “Santa’s Helper.” It is an action/adventure/mystery/crime fiction. I hope for it to be my first electronic novelette (defined as a single story that is 7,500 to 17,500 words)/e-novelette.

The genesis for the story came when I read an interview about a man who was retiring from being a shopping mall Santa for many years. He loved the job but was saddened by some of the heart-felt requests he heard from children as they pleaded for things for others, or to bring back a loved one, or to help the family find a place to live so they could move out of their car. My story is about a young man who is forced by recent family tragedies to quit school and to answer an ad to become a Santa’s Helper. He quickly comes to realize that all is not as it seems. Soon he’s fighting for his life…

With Love,
Russ

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Christmas Grotto – Children’s Books – Clyde and I by Russ Towne

Thank you, Sally, Chris, Charles, Pamela, and Beth! This post, your re-blogs, kind messages and support touch me deeply and mean a lot to me.
I’m blessed to have you in my life.
With Love,
Russ

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Today’s Quote

I LOVE this quote. It beautifully expresses the way I attempt to experience and appreciate each day.
With Love,
Russ

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Santa’s Helper: The Beginning of a New Short Fiction Story

Hi. I’ve been so focused on releasing several children’s books that I’ve not written a new fiction story for adults in months. Well, finally a story has begun to bubble up for me. The working title is called Santa’s Helper.

The gist of it is that a poor young man named Derek Shackelford has recently experienced the sudden terrible loss of his father and the possible loss of his mother from a horrific car accident. He’d planned to work himself though school but had to quit his job and school four weeks into the semester to deal with the ongoing family emergencies, get his family’s affairs in order, and care for his mom and younger siblings. Now the family’s saving and his father’s life insurance are gone, and he needs to find a part-time job during the hours his siblings are in school. The only position he’s able to get is a “Santa’s Helper.”

But he quickly begins to realize that all is not as it seems. It appears that “Santa” is up to no good, and now Derek suspects he has gotten dragged into a scam that involves Grand Theft and perhaps much worse…

If you’d like to be one of the relatively few who receive the entire rough first draft of the story (when I write it) and to have the opportunity to provide feedback to me about it, please let me know. Please also send your email address to me if you haven’t already done so recently as I plan to send the draft via email.

With Love,

Russ

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A New Look To Show What I’m Most Grateful For

I’ve been concerned for some time that the old dark banner photo I’ve used for years and since the beginning of the blog didn’t accurately reflect the lighter and brighter content I attempt to create and/or share on this site, so today I did something about it. The new photos reflect more of the key blessings that make me such a grateful man.

I also changed the text in the header.

I hope the changes resonate with you.

With Love,

Russ

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Don’t Let Anyone Steal Your Dreams!

The best antidote for Dream-Killers are Confidence-Builders, those who help others discover the greatness within themselves and enthusiastically encourage and support them. I’m blessed with the latter as readers of my blogs and you have made a hugely positive difference in my life.
With Love,
Russ

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All of us have dreams…dreams of what we might want to become, a dream of something that we always wanted, or maybe even a dream that we were someone else. It is sort of sad to say, that when I was a kid, I had so many dreams of things that wanted to be, do, or have when I got older…it was amazing. As I got older, I found that some of my dreams turned to reality, some disappeared, while others are still in the making (I hope 🙂

The one thing about dreams is this: they are the hope in things that we would all like to experience. The worse thing that anyone can ever do to another person is to crush those dreams and discourage the individual’s desires to accomplish them.

That’s why, when I read the following story written by an unknown…

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This Is What Happens When You Domesticate a Squirrel

This is what happens when you domesticate a squirrel

With love,

Russ

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I Just Wanted to Make Sure Your Heart Was Okay

This kid and his parents get it.

I Just Wanted to Make Sure Your Heart Was Okay

With Love,

Russ

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The 2nd Edition of My Book “Touched” is Now Available on Kindle Select and Unlimited

Touched

The second edition of Touched is now available for Kindle lovers!

With Love,

Russ

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