Letters from a friend

Last night, I got my first piece of hate mail. My overly-profane, “Smartassiness”-categorized rant about grocery shopping on a weekend afternoon was powerful enough to terminate a friendship. First, I was flabbergasted. Then, I was sad. Then, I got angry. I have been debating whether to say anything here, but I write this blog as [...]

Shopping woes

There are so many reasons not to go grocery shopping in the middle of a Sunday afternoon.

The parking lot is full. Of people, of shopping carts, of cars, and, of course, of SUV’s and mini-vans, because apparently, it is impossible to have a family larger than three members and not drive something bigger than a [...]

Workin’, slavin’ every day

I’m the kind of person who doesn’t want to think about work when I’m not working. Whether that’s good or bad is up for debate, I suppose. Regardless, my personal policy on extracurricular job-thinking is being broken by my head.
This is not the first time my brain has rebelled. When I used to work at [...]

So ashamed…

I have a confession to make.
I read. And, in my endeavors to eliminate “stuff”, I don’t buy many books. I try to utilize the county library system. It’s a very good thing that we can borrow books from any library in the county, because the one in our town? Hasn’t been updated in about fifty [...]

What a jagged little pill

I watched SiCKO over the weekend. It infuriated me. Not because I blindly believe what I am told by Michael Moore; not because I fail to see that there are agendas and two sides to every story and not because I’m oblivious to the art of storytelling, but because there is a problem in this [...]