Erica S

Sometime in the early to mid '80s, I owned a book I am almost certain was titled 'Zilliah' (or a variation of that spelling). It was the story of a ghost, Zilliah, telling the tale of herself and other girls who were kidnapped and forced to make lace by an old lady and a man, who sold it for profit. The girls escape the cottage they are kept in, and one of the captors ends up drowning in a river...? It seems there was possibly murder involved in the story somewhere as well-- not sure tho. Was very somber and dark for it to be a children's book, but I am certain it was. I have searched and searched, and am turning up nothing... its NOT 'The Lacemaker and the Princess' nor 'The Children Next Door'. It was definetly published sometime before 1988. Any help locating a title, an author, etc would be greatly appreciated!!! I loved this book!

My 16 year old son has been home-schooled for 4 years and is now returning to public school. Dress code for the school states that boys' hair can be be no longer than the eyebrows in front, must be above the bottom of the ears, and can not touch the back of the shirt collar. We abided by these guidelines when we took him for a haircut prior to the first day of school. My son has naturally curly hair-- keep this in mind , please.

On the 3rd day of school, I was called to come up to the school. The vice-principal informed me that my son's hair is too long, because when the curl is manually pulled down and stretched out, it is longer than the handbook/ dress code guidelines. The VP stated that we must cut his hair, as other long-haired boys have tried to get by the policy by brushing their bangs aside or tucking it behind their ears and arguing that it was above earlobes, not below eyebrows, yada yada yada. My arguement on that is that those boys are manually manipulating their hair to duck the policy--- my son's hair, in its natural fall, NOT being brushed aside, tucked behind ears, or having the dang curls pulled out straight, is within the dress code guidelines according to the handbook. Nowhere does it state anything about when the hair's natural state of being is manually manipulated how it is to be measured.

We aren't refusing to cut his hair, it isn't long, and there is no religious or cultural issues about the length of it. We just find it somewhat discriminatory in regards to him having naturally curly hair and the fact that they are measuring it by having him pull the curls straight to determine how short it should be. And before anyone can ask-- no African Americans with 'fros in the school, so I can't argue with them about making the VP stretch their natural curls out to define length...lol

We did get him another haircut-- and it is absurd looking as it is only about 1inch in length in front-- as it is VERY curly, and after cutting it to his eyebrows while holding it straight, it sprung right up. I am intent on refusing to cut it again once it grows back out, so long as it is within policy in its NATURAL CURLY STATE. I am just looking to see if anyone else has had this situation with their child, or themselves, or can site some references to similar issues they may know of. Thanks!!

Why do some people take the time to log into yahoo, come here, and pose a question who's answer can be found so easily with a quick search on Yahoo or Google? For examlpe: What is the meaning of the name Sarah? I need a list of exotic flowers.

Do they not know how do a search? Sarah "meaning of" or "exotic flowers" list

Drives me crazy people take the time to ask these things but are too lazy to actually try to look for the answer themselves.

My Yahoo toolbar on IE is showing I have 3 new messages, and my Yahoo home page app is as well. As soon as I actually go to my mailbox, the warnings disappear, only to show back up after exitingthe page. I have checked each and every email I have, in all folders, deleted numous old ones, dumped my cookies, restarted my browser, restarted my computer, signed in and out of Yahoo, everything i can thing to try including running spyware software. Not only is my laptop doing this, but my desktop PC is as well. No recent Windows updates or software has been installed-- it just begain this morning and is driving me crazy. Anyone else having this issue? Thanks!