I thought dsboards was gone for good.  After days and days of trying on all the connections I have - google, microsoft edge and firefox - any attempt to find you was fruitless.  All led to sites that said you had been "sold" and your space was available.  I figured that after more than 20 years, it had been a good run.

Gerard

Joe:  "No, it's step, step, side-step, step...  Look, if you want to learn dirty dancing, you've got to focus."

Gerard

Elizabeth:  "Sock and underwear always go in the top drawer.  That's a rule around here; none of your business why."

Gerard

Elizabeth:  "I hope you don't mind instant, because that's all I know how to make."

Gerard

Vicki:  "A family worth millions, and not one damn TV in the house.  So much for keeping up with Secret Storm."

Gerard

Roger:  "I'm at home, not planning on going anywhere, we had to make meatloaf for dinner since we don't have cooks or other servants than Matthew.  So why am I forced to wear this suite and tie?"

Gerard

They look like the works of the classic artist and stage-designer Edward Gorey.

Gerard

Back in the stone ages, when I was in elementary school, on the first day (Tuesday after Labor Day). we kiddies were given a list of what we needed.  The schools didn't provide supplies - parents were expected to.  In the early evening off we went to the local department store to pick up everything from crayons to pencil holders and everything in-between.  We'd get a "school-bag" (no backpacks back then) to carry it all in. 

School began.  We'd doodle on rubber and gum erasers and drill holes in them with pencils and pens.  We had a "tablet" known today as a "notebook."  At Thanksgiving, four days off.  At Christmas, two weeks.  At Easter, one week.  No make-up days for snow days.  Memorial Day weekend, school ended.  Summer school was for this kids who failed courses and had to make them up or else get flunked and held back.  No classes to make things out of clay that all ended up as ashtrays.

School was school, not a babysitting or daycare service

Gerard