Oh, God, when I have food, help me to remember the hungry. When I have work, help me to remember the jobless. When I have a home, help me to remember those who have no home at all. When I am without pain, help me to remember those who suffer. And remembering, help me to destroy my complacency, to stir my compassion, and be concerned enough to help ( Read more... )

This year's recession-friendly costume: Jon & Kate + 8.

JON: Me, holding a kitchen magnet-board scribbled with "Jon" plus random messages. See below.
KATE: Gary the Gargoyle atop a split-level end table, carted out to the driveway.
+8: Eight bobble-head dolls collected over the years from various promotional nights at the ballpark. (The president ( Read more... )

"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with." -- Stephen Stills

I've found out that I can be very self-centered. Whenever we get to talking, it's all "Me me me". Me and I would break up -- if it weren't for the welfare of myself.

Happy Iraqi Communist Martyrs Day, everyone.

STEPS:
(1)Take a sheet of paper and write "JOE" on it.
(2)Pin it on your shirt or jacket.
(3)Grab a plunger.
(4)Head outside and hand out candy.

In reviewing my hour outside, I must say I was impressed that some of the older kids recognized who I was supposed to be -- except this girl who thought I was Joe from the Saw movies...? Obviously, the ( Read more... )

MORGANTOWN -- So I survived. Who didn't?

First off, I headed to the WVU Coliseum to pick up tickets for upcoming basketball games in Charleston. (Aside to hagdinvincible: I like how the city literally wrapped the street signs on the electric poles along University Ave in Sunnyside ( Read more... )

MORGANTOWN -- OK, admittedly, I was running a little late to my cousin's house for Thanksgiving lunch. But once you (I mean, "I") throw in my luggage for a two-night stay with my aunt in anticipation of the WVU/USF game and topping off the gas tank, arriving six minutes late wouldn't kill anybody ( Read more... )

My cousin's kids, Cassidy (5) and Hunter (3½), were sitting with their backs to the Old Table. Hunter went to the kitchen to get more stuffing ( Read more... )