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April 22, 2013 10:10 AM UTC --
There are about trillions of cells with my DNA in my body, and since each one of them is alive and conscious, I sort of like to think that there are a trillion little helpers getting my lazy butt . . .
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April 15, 2013 11:03 AM UTC --
There is one thing nice about losing the lottery, and that is you automatically know you are not alone. This feeling of being a part of a group, even a team can be helpful when you just lost . . .
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April 10, 2013 09:23 AM UTC --
I am not bragging, and you will know that from the rest of this post, but when I was a teenager, my teacher took me aside and said, " You tested near genius on the IQ test."
What she might . . .
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March 31, 2013 03:11 PM UTC --
Broad brushing any one group with a label is by common wisdom always wrong. It doesn't matter if you have facts to support you conclusions, it is just unacceptable to use a single characteristic . . .
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March 20, 2013 11:34 AM UTC --
I’ve actually always been pretty good at predicting the future. Well… except for the stock market, but that’s not the point I am trying to make.
Actually, it might be the . . .
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March 17, 2013 06:06 PM UTC --
Whenever I want to feel down, I just grab a newspaper. It is a quick and miraculous cure for the malady we call happiness. I have to assume that I am a glutton for punishment, because knowing . . .
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March 15, 2013 07:06 PM UTC --
I find it inconceivable
Just totally unbelievable
That something that’s not seeable
Can make me feel so miserable
I’m hosting many others
Perhaps your . . .
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March 14, 2013 09:47 AM UTC --
My wife called me a fool today, which is an easy observation for her to make, since I offer so many opportunities to prove her point. It was a gentle humorous chiding over the fact that I said to . . .
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March 11, 2013 10:53 AM UTC --
"But you're dead: What do you mean you don't believe in a God?"
I remember my mother's look as my dream that was not a dream faded, and as I reentered my own reality, I heard her . . .
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March 04, 2013 01:32 PM UTC --
I’m probably just like a lot of you in that my e-mail addresses all seem to be known to a bunch of scam artists. It used to be limited to messages from Liberia, Iberia or Siberia, asking . . .
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March 01, 2013 09:04 AM UTC --
I was thinking this morning, and like Martha Stewart says "That's a good thing," and the good thing is not necessarily for the content of the thought, but that fact that I was fortunate enough to . . .
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February 22, 2013 01:24 PM UTC --
You have to give it to the folks in Washington, and that's only because if you don't, they plan to take it away from you anyway. Now I'm not really picking on anyone in particular because I'm . . .
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February 19, 2013 11:53 AM UTC --
"I haven' t been able to tell you anything, Rahn," Annmar said as they cleared the breakfast dishes from the kitchen table. "Security regulations have kept me from telling you and the children until . . .
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February 18, 2013 04:05 PM UTC --
In the discipline of astrophysics, practitioners would say that Annmar lived in a complex world, one whose existence relied on a very delicate dance between the two suns that lit the sky of her planet . . .
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February 17, 2013 04:04 PM UTC --
Annmar sat outside in the waning light longer than usual, watching the setting suns touch the horizon and then slowly disappear from view. Sol one, setting in the east below the jagged edges . . .
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February 05, 2013 10:10 AM UTC --
I've often wondered about all those men and women who are just dying to get their names in the paper, and I'm not talking about the fools who grapple for fifteen minutes of fame, I'm talking about . . .
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January 25, 2013 09:29 AM UTC --
As someone who grew up during the depression, which of course I didn't except for the recent one, I have a hard time just throwing things away.
I was reminded of this tendency toward . . .
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January 21, 2013 04:01 PM UTC --
I have always concluded that the real genius of our constitution is that the republic sort of oscillates back and forth between extremes like a disturbed pendulum. Like a pendulum, it always eventually . . .
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January 20, 2013 12:37 PM UTC --
Well, actually I'm dopey, but I figured I'd get a lot more interest if I changed a few letters in the word normally used for my description
It is my hope that by admitting to doping, which I never . . .
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January 18, 2013 10:16 AM UTC --
I pretty much was raised with the belief that aging took the form of a somewhat skewed bell shaped curve. In the years leading up to my twenties, I knew that additional years would bring knowledge . . .
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