Sensible Tirade 
We were not meant to stare at a screen for all our waking hours. For many of us this has become our entire career. By the time we are sufficiently middle aged (45 or so), minds go to thoughts of leaving the rat race, retiring early, going out on our own – maniacally entrepreneurial. In …
Previously I wrote of my genius adaptability when producing a pot of coffee using a napkin coffee filter. Today I write of personal failure and the coffee that almost wasn’t. One of two things happen when you wake up in the morning – you’re thinking of a million things, or you can’t think about anything …
Trying new things in our adult years can have amazing results. You may have also said no, by default, because some told you that it wasn’t your thing. Perhaps a parent or older sibling told you that you don’t like mustard and then one day by accident you pick up sandwich from the catering table …
There’s a hot new trend on the interwebz: throwing shade at other generations. It wasn’t long ago when the whole world’s ire was focused directly on the Millennials. They could do no right. The economy, work culture, and everything else was their fault alone. Never mind the bang-up job their parents (looking at you Boomers) …
When the information superhighway was young we went there for answers. It was an exciting and even magical edition to Encarta. Put a few lines of text into Yahoo or Lycos and what seemed like the totality of the human experience was at our fingertips. Mostly it was personal homepages. There were tributes to our …
Monday is a major source of depression. The first work day of the week feels like the worst day of your life on a continuous seven day loop. Friday had such hope. We were going use barely forty-eight hours to get out all of the hopes and dreams before going back to the grind. The …
There are a lot of hopes and dreams in a sandwich – an endless potential of flavor and portability. Pick a protein, may even four or more. Ham, Turkey, Bacon,Roast Beef, hell even some tofu if you are so inclined. Add some cheese. Any cheese. All of the cheese. Add enough cheese to scare your …
This morning I haphazardly dragged myself out of bed, bleary eyed and wondering why the dogs where scratching at the bedroom door. I couldn’t find my glasses. Blindly, I opened the door. The dogs had no reason for their excitement. In their minds I had simply slept too long. I found my glasses, put on …