Making each and every day fun!
What have you celebrated lately?
I’ve always dreamed of being a writer. A damned good writer. Someone that finds himself sitting at a tiny table in a New York bookstore, signing a hardcover book and adding some pithy statement. Perhaps for some yawning cubicle cowboy during his lunchbreak, who says to me ”I don’t get your stuff, but my son [...]
“Humor is tragedy plus time.” ~ Mark Twain Seriously. It’s pretty bad out there these days. Natural disasters, job losses, gas prices, and the Transformers movies just keep coming. We’re not waiting for the next shoe to drop anymore — we’re waiting for it to smack us upside the head. Hard. How do we deal [...]
We are surrounded by closet clowns. You see them, in the corners of your eye, as you look around at fairgrounds, concerts, mall parking lots and farmers markets. While you were spending your high school years trying to blend in with the crowd, they stood against the stream. Well, not technically. They rode their unicycles [...]
You’re a hard worker, trying to either shine or hide in this tough economy. You keep your head down at your cubicle, type softly, sipping your coffee with all of the abandon of a nervous hummingbird. Unless, of course, you achieve something worth marveling at; kicking in the bosses’ door and singing like you’re Adam [...]
“Behind every cloud is another cloud.” ~ Judy Garland As a child, I loved to spread out on the lawn and watch the clouds move across the sky. They seemed so alive, especially as I watched them form for storms, layering themselves before dropping raindrops on me, chasing me inside. March 12th is Look Up [...]
So you’re one of those types that has every gadget, right? You dance out of the Apple Store, deftly order online from the Android Store, and know the Best Buy Geek Squad by name. You scour the Internet for trends, and proudly show off each and every new purchase. Yes, you are a master of [...]
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. ~ Doug Larsen Every year right around this time, the rains start up, and my undernourished lawn begins to (somewhat) green again. I don’t mind it – I actually love mowing the lawn (almost) each and [...]