Daylight Stupid Time

Well, I hope you guys are happy! You always push and whine until you get your way and then you thumb your noses at those of us who see things differently.  And then, to make things worse, we have to listen to you gloat for almost eight months! Yes, as you’ve probably already guessed, it’s [...]

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Tell Me Why…

The world is so full of inexplicable things that I thought I’d throw a few questions I have out here and see if any of you faithful readers have the answers.  Okay, here goes: 1) Why doesn’t anyone sell a condiment that is a mixture of mustard and ketchup?  I love putting both of those [...]

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Foreign Instructions

Don’t you just love it when you have to put something together and the directions have been written by someone who is obviously not an English speaker?  And when I say “love it,” I mean “hate it!”  I can’t tell you the hours of my life I have wasted assembling something, trying to understand what [...]

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Not Exactly Cabin Fever

My nerves aren’t great in the best of times.  And, believe me, these aren’t the best of times.  We’re reaching that point in the winter when I start to get an overwhelming urge to bitch-slap people who annoy me.  Scary, but true. It’s not as if we’re having snow all the time, but more that [...]

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My Weather Moods

As I’m writing this, I can just feel a bad “weather mood” trying to sneak up on me.  I don’t even have to go outside to know.  There is blinding sunlight illuminating my entire  living room, to the point where I almost need sunglasses inside.  If one didn’t know better, one would assume that it’s [...]

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An Unwelcome Gift

So there I was, taking a card out to my mailbox, scurrying along because the temperature was only 24 degrees.  On my way back toward the house, I noticed the earth seemed to be disturbed in front of my porch.  I slowed down and took a good close look.  What was it?  And then I [...]

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The Illusion of Safety

I’m writing this a little bit after the fact, but it’s one of those news stories I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. In my city about a week ago at night, a man’s old van broke down on the side of the road, booming out backfires.  He got out quickly, fearing it would [...]

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Dear Stephen King,

Dear Stephen, (I take the liberty of using your first name since I feel like I’ve known you for some thirty-six years, since your Carrie days and have contributed hundreds of dollars to your present comfortable financial situation.) Where oh where do I begin in telling you how disappointed I am in you? First off, [...]

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Thanks, Government…For Nothing!

Lately it seems I’ve been bombarded with articles that illustrate the negative repercussions of our present administration.  And two of them really struck home with me. According to the Associated Press on Sunday, “The new health care law wasn’t supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the United States with coverage [...]

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What Kind of World Is This?

Sometimes when I look around and realize how much the world has changed since my father’s day, I just feel like crying.  I don’t know if it is the times we live in that make the world so uncaring and hateful or, if it has always been that way and I’m just more aware of [...]

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