Here's something to contemplate before you take your grievance to social media ( Read more... )

- There are other cars on the road in addition to mine, going places; I want to go to a place and they are slowing me down ( Read more... )

Got the cat carrier out of my storage locker in the basement. I get anxiety going into my storage locker. There's stuff in there from my Gran's and my Uncle Steve's estates that I've never really looked at or dealt with, plus the cat carrier. If you watch "Hoarders," you know that one of the primary reasons people cram their homes with boxes is ( Read more... )

I want to tell a story from a couple years ago, but don't want my motives misconstrued. This is not a story about how great I am. It's a story about how you don't have to be great to make a difference; you just have to show up ( Read more... )

I've seen a particular Nerd Boy and Cheerleader scenario play about about a hundred times. I am expressing their identities in high-school terms because this is a scenario that belongs in high school, although I have seen it play out with actors well into their thirties ( Read more... )

About a half-dozen men, over the course of the last couple years, have attempted to strike up a conversation on public transit with me by asking, "You know there's a Kindle app for your phone now, right?" They see me reading my Kindle and occasionally taking out my phone when the text chime goes off, so they know I have an iPhone, too. They are ( Read more... )

People post the infamous "You mad?" video all the time, in which rapper Cam'ron taunts Bill O'Reilly for getting hot under the collar in a roundtable discussion. We're not meant to watch it every time it crops up, just understand that the person who posted it is taunting the inordinately angry person upthread. But I do watch it every time, because ( Read more... )

Children, back in my youth there was a show on the air called "America's Funniest Home Videos." Folks would film their friends and family using a device called a camcorder. Sometimes something unexpected would happen while the camcorder was rolling, and someone would  say, "Hey, Uncle Bob! Everyone should see that funny video you took!"

So every ( Read more... )

Will an exorcism bring the old Naomi Wolf back?

Michelle recently finished "The Beauty Myth," and attempted to pass it on to me. I told her I'd read it when it came out twenty-one years ago and she replied, "Well, read it again!" It's that vital a book; you know that other women need to hear it out. I've bought several copies as gifts. "The End of ( Read more... )

In the ongoing saga of My Wacky Apartment Building, today's episode features a door to the stairwell that will not open for love or money.  Tenants of the second floor, self included, have been instructed to enter and exit via the fire escape.  It's not clear when a locksmith is coming, if ever.

You know, just this morning I was turning the 200th ( Read more... )