Oh Tannenbaum

This weekend, many people will be Christmas tree shopping. Just the words conjure up scenes from the movie A Christmas Story, which is mandatory of you have not seen it yet. It has been many years since I bought a tree. I own a fake tree that I don’t always put up , But I do have memories of tree shopping as a child. My father had a friend who sold Fireworks in the summer, Pumpkins in the

A Fun Little Respite

Whew! FINALLY finished moving all the stuff into Hilda's house and even have it organized. Yes, I managed to fit the elephant into the shoebox, at least that is what it is like here, though it is kind of interesting, it feels like a dorm room in a way. Tom still has to find a home for the Mustang and is working on that right now so I thought I would take a little breather and do something

My Cursed LIfe: The Series

Well, never a dull moment around here! Tom and I were in the middle of tearing apart the behemoth that is my entertainment center and packing up all the movies, etc., that were stored within, when the doorbell rang. I answered it (since Tommy has more of a "Who Can It Be Now" mentality than I do at times) and who should be standing there in all his glory but a woman's dream fella...the UPS man.

The Worker's Plight

In case you have been asleep or living on the moon, things ain’t so great here in the US right now, or anywhere in the world for that matter. We seem to be stuck in this mega-recession, which I think is a depression at this point, but we wouldn’t want to scare people now would we? The political aspects of all this are so complex and volatile that I am not interested in commenting on them,

Helping The Gulf

  The media has covered the BP oil “spill” since the first day. I am tempted to write about everything from the folly of former President Bush, who allowed BP to omit mandatory safety equipment that would have prevented this incident, to the possible catastrophic global implications of this event. But instead I have chosen to do something more constructive.   Once the photos and footage