As several of my friends have often pointed out happily, my life often seems like an episode of some inane sitcom - complete with that 80's laugh track.

Last evening I intended to surprise goodboyaj by leaving his birthday card on his car windshield (that is, the card I neglected to give him on his actual birthday along with his present). I schlepped my ( Read more... )

Words are fragile commodities. Like stocks, their values can rise or plummet depending on the market. In the verbal sense, a person's stock as an individual has the ability to send their spoken word's value through the roof...or conversely through the floor ( Read more... )

These are not times for the weak of heart...Somehow the change of seasons - right here and now - seems appropriate. The transition from one state to another, the changes associated with the end of one thing and the beginning of something new...they all have meaning to me. And it's no coincidence that while I love summer for it's temporary and ( Read more... )