Tag: Letting Off Steam
Letting Off Steam – Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime—the devil in disguise
I joined Amazon Prime about a year ago. For those of you who are not familiar with the mega-online shopping...
Letting Off Steam – Serious Articles?
Help, I’m being held hostage
To all readers—I am being held hostage by four highly-motivated, spirited, committed women. They’re armed with flowery-decorated spray cans of...
Nostalgic thoughts from days gone by
I'll admit, with age I find myself more and more fondly drifting back to days gone by. I believe it's a natural progression that...
Can we have an elephant at my birthday mommy?
Since when did it become mandatory when throwing a kid’s birthday party to provide a bounce house, rock climbing wall, trackless train, live pony,...
A homerun for 3-Dog
A few weeks ago I discovered a binder containing many of my college creative writing class assignments. One in particular caught my attention, bringing...
Ebay is for everyone
The first time I listed something for sale using Ebay dates back to the late ‘90s. I sold two Morgan silver dollars and I...
Better to forgive and forget
I have always been extremely quick to forgive and forget inconsequential, irrelevant disagreements or perceived wrongs. Even if the “wounds” prove more severe, I...
Happy birthday to you
I’m a little confused. I “celebrated” another birthday last week and for some reason it didn’t make me happy. After all, it wasn’t the...
Types of people I try avoid…if possible
I would estimate that about 95 percent of the people I’ve met over my lifetime I’ve truly liked, or at least had no problem...
Is it time to retire?
I received the idea for this piece from a gentleman who reads my column each week. His name is Ben and we have been...
