Perhaps it’s because I’m entering the ‘thicker’ part of my mid-life years that I find more time to care.  In my twenties the drive to acquire and achieve collided with failure in just about every attempt as I found with each passing year just how little I knew.  Over/… Read full post »

It’s officially seven hours and twenty four minutes into the first day of 2009’s Winter Holiday Vacation.  So far the teenagers have engaged in six arguments over television channel selection, four somewhat vulgar quarrels over computer sharing, two fiery debates regarding hot water/… Read full post »

Wake up Barack!  Cheney’s crapping in the oval office again and needs to be smacked with last weeks rolled up Waterbury Republican. Too mean?  I don’t think so.  After all, this guy condones water boarding among other “interrogation techniques” that are all tort… Read full post »

What ever happened to the golden rule “Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see”?

In the eighties (right after the rebellious sixties and sexy seventies) an American icon rode onto the set of American politics to audition for the starring role: President.… Read full post »

Aunt Gigi’s house was old.  You know, with those black, push button, toggle-type light switches.  A special room had to be added to the house to accommodate the late forties, early fifties refrigerator and equally old washing machine.  Aunt Gigi didn’t have a dryer, she had/… Read full post »

“What you give away can never be taken from you.”  I recently heard this and the statement’s been resonating with me since.  In more than recent years, I’ve noticed a genuine fear which seems to have lead people straight toward selfishness.  Don’t get me w/… Read full post »

In light of recent heartbreaking events that have taken place in my current hometown I submit the following opinions.

For all of the parents out there who feel they are short changing or even damaging their children by not being able to buy them what they want (or allegedly need), or… Read full post »

Biting

Chewing

Gnawing Worry

Please give me a job

I need some money

Hurry!

Doing everything

Doing nothing

Nervously I ponder

Shooting off resumes

And references

To Craigslist and Monster

Unemployment?

Maybe.

Perhaps unemployment compensation

Will save me?

Scrapping toget… Read full post »