I think most of us have done this. We buy a lottery ticket and then spend the next few hours or days thinking about what our life might be like if we were to hit that big jackpot. We’d go from scraping up our pennies...
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These Are Not Unusual Times
People say it all the time…it’s basically a variation on the theme that, today, everything’s falling apart and society is going insane. We hear it from neighbors and politicians, friends, co-workers, tv shows, direct advertising and just about any other method through which messages are...
Continue reading...In Memoriam
Today, twenty years after 9/11/2001, may we, as Americans, be reminded that we have the capacity to care for one another and unite together to create a stronger community. May we never forget.
Continue reading...Big Family Vacations (Oblications)- I Don’t Like Them
I just got back from a long weekend trip with my extended family and I’m generally pissed off about the whole thing. Because I’m dealing with the trauma that was my entire childhood in the form of emotional neglect, I know I’m in a delicate...
Continue reading...Cancel Culture or Cancelling Ourselves?
Cancel culture. It’s a phrase that’s being used everywhere. A person says one thing and receives backlash for it and immediately the masses cry out “CANCEL CULTURE”! Like so many phrases, this one just annoys me. Probably because it is an example of how we...
Continue reading...I’m Part Of The Problem. So Are You.
We’ve been angry at one another for a long time. It’s been building since at least the 2000 election and became intense during the Obama administration. We have divided ourselves into factions. No one really asked us to, at least initially, we did that all...
Continue reading...Democracy Is Not A Spectator Sport
We’ve all be seeing the non-stop lawsuits challenging the results of our free and legal election. These lawsuits are the result of a demagogue who was fairly (if not foolishly) elected as leader of our country four years ago. He has been claiming that our...
Continue reading...I Deleted My Pinterest Boards (And Other Social Media Notes)
I’ve had this website for about a year and a half now. During that time, I’ve tried several times to create a subscription button which would allow someone to receive any new posts in their email. The main issue I was having is that most...
Continue reading...My Thoughts On Individual Freedoms
Enough with the crap about infringing on individual freedoms. Actually I’m pretty sure this was my thought six months ago and yet, here we still are. Let’s step back a moment and think about this from a slightly bigger picture viewpoint. Individual freedoms are not...
Continue reading...We The People…Voted!
“We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union….” Our founding fathers got one very important detail right over two hundred years ago and that was the first three words of the preamble to the United States Constitution. We...
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