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May 6, 2006
Volume 4, Number 9
ISSN 1554-6330

In this issue:

1. Carpenter Country
2. Top Drawer Article
3. Top Drawer Tips
4. Top Drawer Book Review
5. Top Drawer Satire

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CARPENTER COUNTRY
What's Happening in Our Neck of the Human Experience

 

It’s almost Mother’s Day and here in Carpenter Country we’d like to send a greeting to every woman in the world.

Some of you may not think of yourselves as Moms. You may feel only those ladies who have raised children should be celebrated on the second Sunday in May.

Not true!

To use a famous comic’s opening line - You’re a Mom if you’ve ever:

Taken in a stray dog or cat.

Saved a baby bird.

Rescued a whale.

Tried to revive a dying butterfly.

Fed a hungry squirrel.

And yes, you’re a mom if you’ve simply staked up a drooping flower.

The list could go on forever, but we’d run out of space. What the words boil down to is nurturing, and women do it so well.

Over the centuries those who never thought of themselves as Moms have most likely saved, fostered and reared to adulthood countless millions of babies of every species.

Sure, there are some who are better at tending, supporting and sustaining than others. We even know a few who confess they really bottom-out at motherhood.

But what does it matter? Good, bad, traditional or unconventional, all women deserve to be honored on May 14th. Without us the world would be an empty place.

So, to everyone whose gender is female…

Happy Mother’s Day!

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TOP DRAWER ARTICLE

The Legal Services Corporation
by
HL Carpenter

 

Your government at work ... and the result is justice for all.

Before 1974, low-income Americans with a legal problem involving civil law were mostly on their own. Then Congress established the Legal Services Corporation (LSC).

Read the entire article here

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TOP DRAWER TIPS
Topics and Tidbits

 

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TOP DRAWER BOOK REVIEW

by
HL Carpenter

 

Every Mistake in the Book
by F.J. Lennon
ISBN 0-7858-1832-4
195 pages; hardcover; $23.00
Castle Books, New Jersey, 2005

The original edition of Every Mistake in the Book was published in 2001, which means it was probably written a year or so earlier, given the glacial workings of a publishing industry stuck in the 18th century. Why is that significant? Only because the most useful fact in the book is the one not included – the one about how little things change.

Read the entire review here

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TOP DRAWER SATIRE

Creating a Crisis
by
HL Carpenter

 

Creating a crisis used to be an ordeal that took days, weeks or even months. Would-be agitators had to be persistent in attempts to whip up controversy and fear.

But thanks to advances in technology and communication, as well as related declines in civility and listening skills, crisis creation has become easy.

Read the rest here