The prodigal daughter returns after not slaying the dragon.  I was supposed to own this family business by now. I left my real broker job to come back because I was promised ownership. At long last. I have been here, in some capacity for 24 years. Goddamn, it has been awhile. … Read full post »

It has been several days since I watched the Oprah episode on child pornography, and there has not been a day I have not gone back to the haunting glimpses of hell she impanted in my brain.

I knew better, I should have turned it off. My mother did, failed… Read full post »

A tough day. We have all had them. Wait... before I finish this let me go kiss the little one, the one who banished me from his room over some infraction I caused while 'helping' him brush his teeth.  He forbade me from kissing him goodnight, and it was everything I… Read full post »

You must make an effort every single day to laugh. At yourself, with or at others... does not matter... you must try to laugh everyday.  Get a joke or the day, google dane cook, read some old erma bomback.  Does not matter, just do it.

I love comedians,… Read full post »

I cook like a fiend and I want a family that EATS.  I make homemade sauce, (obviously), meatballs, pizza, yeah, I make my own dough, too. Random dinner tonight:

Homemade marinara sauce w/ Rigatoni

Homemade pizza

Grilled flank steak

side of sauteed mushrooms

& Grilled chicken Caesar salad.

De… Read full post »

How does the world change children so? 43 people dead from random shooters since january, the latest in Binghamton, NY and I think we are becoming numb to the headlines. 4 kids commited suicide this year in the local highschool and parents are left baffled.  how has human life been such… Read full post »

 After too much Pinot Grigio last night (it IS possible) I am feeling slightly edgy... like anything and absolutly nothing is going to happen. I brought homemade cream of chicken and rice soup into work for lunch, but I would rather meet a friend out at the pub.

I decided,… Read full post »