The Forty-Five

My local hometown paper when I was growing up was a very small, thin set of newsprint called The Journal.  It was delivered (I believe) thre...

So yesterday, after some consideration, I canceled my Linked Out account. Linked Out, for those that may not know, is the (currently) larg...

Given my general bent, I spend more than my fair share of time thinking about, well you know, various things, like the weather and how my ra...

This last Friday we had our annual "Feel Guilty About Interacting With Your Fellow Employees" Training (otherwise known as Harassm...

Come I this day to the Father, Come I this day to the Son, Come I to the Holy Spirit powerful: Come I this day with God, Come I thi...

You must write. Finish what you start. You must refrain from rewriting, except to editorial order. You must put your story...

For those who may be living under a rock, the latest craze in urban living is The KonMari Method spearheaded by Marie Kondo, a very soft spo...

We have had Poppy for almost two years. On the whole, she has been a handful.  She has chewed multiple items constantly.  She wants...

Ten years ago today, I was laid off. The result of that layoff - after a 4 month job search - was job halfway across the country and the i...

For those of you that missed a certain shaving commercial last week, you apparently missed nothing in content.  But what was missed in the f...

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that ...

13 July 20XX My Dear Lucilius: We are in high summer here now: the days are very long (0530 or so comes the sunrise and we do ...

With the Other Party in power in the House here in the United States, I am expecting (and beginning to hear) cries for people to pay "t...

Upon pondering after thanking you all for reading (and again, thank you), it occurred to me that I could not only thank you, but encourage y...

Dear Friends: It occurs to me, every year, that I should make the effort and time to thank you. So, thank you. Thank you for spending ...

"By faith in Christ a person may gain such sure and sound comfort, that he need not fear the Devil, sin, death, or any evil.  'Sir ...

In speaking with a coworker the other day, I commented that I felt myself to constantly be under a cloud of stress.  She agreed.  She asked ...