I've been tagged

Aspazia  tagged me for a new meme , sent to her from Goldbricker, at Mad Melancholic Feminista, and I dare not break the chain lest evil come to us all. 

First we have the rules:

• We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
• Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
• People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
• At the end of your blog post, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
• Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they're tagged, and to read your blog.

I am a 68 year old grandmother.
I have been married for 43 years.
I am a retired teacher. I have taught English as a second language and high school equivalency and other subjects in a prison.
I speak, read and write German fluently.
I am working on a long reading and writing project examining the notion of "normalcy" in the Third Reich. This may or may not take me a year. It may take longer.
I live on Hilo Bay in Hilo, Hawaii. And yes, it is Paradise.
I loathe racism.
I love novels.

The Froth
Redneck Mother
Unsane and Safe
The Boomer Chronicles
Donkey o.d.
Self Portrait as
Angry Black Bitch
Soul Glo

Don't fail to respond, lest dire events transpire!

Comments

[Jennifer Cascadia]

Well, i did it but I'm not naming people, caaaz...

[Maiden]

Hattie--
I hope you'll weigh in--especially since you know so much about the Third Reich!
http://nomoretorture.blogspot.com/2007/06/bloggers-on-torture-open-invitation.html

Best, Maiden

[Holly]

Thanks for thinking of me, Hattie, but I'm breaking the chain, on principle. I decided decades ago, when I got my first anonymous chain letter in an envelope with no return address, threatening me with the most dire of consequences unless I sent the same nasty message on to other unsuspecting people I kenw, that I would never, ever subject someone else to that. I used to hate it when I got email chain letters from friends, telling me that if I didn't pass it on, something really, REALLY TERRIBLE would happen to me. Why would anyone want to subject a friend to a curse? I would always reply and say, "I value your well-being enough that I would risk harm to myself in order to avoid passing it on to you; if you don't feel the same way about me, then maybe we're not really friends after all."

So--

even when it's done in jest, I don't play that game, because I don't think it's fun. I make it a point to break the chain, because I don't like chains of coercion.

[Hattie]

Holly: 'Twas only in jest, but heavens if you don't want to participate, that's fine. I don't need a treatise or statement of position on the topic.

[Hattie]

This has been fun, and I enjoyed the contact with bloggers that I like and read a lot.
Angry Black Bitch wins the prize for the most amusing response.

[Regina]

Fack from Vacation and worse off than before we left! I am dead in on this and with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek I will reply tomorrow! ABB always wins most outrageous, damn her! :)