Please Join Me on the Dark Side

The day you celebrate how long you’ve had a mom… or something like that. I saw mine. And my sister – also a mom. And my Aunt Mary – a surrogate mom. And a lady that I haven’t seen since I was a teenager – a mom, but not related to me at all in…

I know, I know, award shows aren’t exactly the place to glean essential life lessons, but these aren’t exactly essential life lessons. They’re more like casual observations that have an element of something resembling something worth knowing. So, here they are. The ten things I learned from this years Oscars, in order of increasing importance,…

On Thursday, the company where I’m working had their big Christmas luncheon. I skipped it for some priceless alone time with a working computer and silence. Ah, what I can accomplish in forty minutes without distraction. Then- They came back. My current co-workers started flooding in and my time came to an end. Immediately, one…