I recently attended a birthday party for my wife’s cousin’s 1-year-old daughter, which would make her my second-cousin-once-removed-in-law, if my math is right.But what’s not right is the audacity of my wife’s cousin to have a baby so close to Christmas.During the party, I felt bad for ...
Let’s face it, things are going amok.Now, you can fill in your own opinions relating to that statement — citing everything from the state of affairs of the nation and the world, technology advancing beyond our grasp or the fragility of the human condition.I, on the other hand, am not as ...
Well, seeing that Black Friday has come and gone, and you’re likely reading this on ash-gray Sunday and afraid you won’t find any deals until Christmas, don’t worry. There are still 29 shopping days remaining, and probably 32,438 more sales crammed in there if you look and shop hard ...
My gripes about Christmas arriving earlier and earlier have been well documented throughout the course of writing this column.To put it in statistical terms, out of every 10 columns I write, seven of them contain something about the premature arrival of Christmas decorations, songs, movies, ...
In the years since graduating from high school, I’ve always tried to stay true to the mantra I and many other students have adopted: I’m never going to use math when I get out of here.You see, I was horrible at math...and social studies, English, gym, study hall, biology, basic ...
I must say, as a non-believer in the phenomenon of mind over matter, a recent experience has led me to believe there may be something to it.Before I get into my experience, I want to tell you what mind over matter is exactly, if you don’t mind and if it does matter to you, of course.Mind over ...
