I am becoming so cynical in my older age -- perhaps a better term is "misanthropic". Every time I go to the mall, I dislike culture more and more ( Read more... )

I have been considering the idea of boycotting companies and whether or not it has any purpose. Here are some thoughts I've had:

• If I were to be fair in boycotting any given company for a certain issue, I'd probably have to boycott nearly every company, making survival difficult.
  
  • Nearly every company is going to support something(s) with which I do ( Read more... )

Let's go through a handful of the things that are just weird to me. (Some of these, I have observed while shopping. Others I am aware of from behind the scenes due to working at a department store one summer ( Read more... )

When I was younger, I was quite surprised to learn that few of my guy friends knew the difference between a skirt and a dress. (I was rather proud then that I did.) But I always had assumed that it was just a guy/girl thing. Girls tended to care more about clothes so as to have more words for them, just as those living in wintry places tend to have ( Read more... )

So, as my last voice post stated, I went shopping last night at the Towson Mall, mostly for my fiancée. I had such a wonderful time.

(I can talk rather freely on this public entry, because she does not have Internet access currently....)

( On Newer Relationships and the Difficulty of Shopping )