“I don’t really make new year’s resolutions,” while fully knowing that I am formulating a list of resolutions in my head–things to stop doing, things to start doing, things to start doing again. (Self: I do
You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t been actively writing here for some time. I’m taking a bit of a break from updating this site at the moment. I’m keeping busy with a number of other projects, both personal and professional, but I do hope to start blogging here again in the...
To some they are only ever a prelude to seduction so why bother if seduction isn’t on the table. When you’ve lived alone for a while, a spontaneous hug out of the blue from your new companion is delightful but why? What’s the agenda? What do you want? So the happiest couples ...
we really didn’t know what to expect. We’d just had so many people ask where they could give financially for the kids so we thought it would be the easiest platform for giving. The generosity of people has blown us away. We will never be able to say thank you enough for the money...
have cost her a great deal. The widow needed to sell everything and move to a place where she wouldn’t be alone. The newspaper’s classified ad didn’t say all that, but it didn’t take much to figure out. I decided to buy a few things to help her in her season of transition...
This is not good for our economy; it has the potential to wreck our small businesses.” I was hopeful that the few Republicans who seem to retain a brain and a heart would seize upon the first ruling to say (to DJT), “Well, the court says you don’t have the power to ...
demanded the UAL party bolt the coalition and bring down the government. At the urging of party chief MK Mansour Abbas, the council did not insist on the UAL’s immediate departure from the coalition, but instead instructed the faction to cease all cooperation with the government for the time...
to pay off when my wonderful, loud, talented, beautiful, smart, and fiercely independent wife got a job that kept some spare change in our bank accounts. Her insane work hours kept her prying eyes a perfectly far enough distance away, so I could buy all the baseball cards, Funko Pops, ...
So, for anyone lucky enough to find a “party pumpkin” who wants to carve it for Halloween, here’s a little how-to: Find a pumpkin. A critical first step. Pumpkins must be the hollow kind – beware pumpkin-shaped squash that are solid all the way through. If you get one of those...
trying to feel hip as I search for coconut and a sympathy card I want to send. I find the cards, but there are no sympathy cards. Birthdays, Congratulations, Thank Yous, but no Sympathy. Maybe they were out, or maybe they would be too party-kill in the land of the Hawaiian shirts...