I start my mornings with a cup of coffee. When the caffeine kicks in, I do a 20- to 60-minute exercise video at least six days a week. A few weeks ago, when I heard the video instructor say for probably the hundredth time in her squeaky, annoying voice, "Keep this up and you'll … [Read more...]

I am annoyed with an industry that, in an effort to keep us safe, leaped from reasonable to ridiculous. It started with the manufacturing of difficult-to-open, hermetically sealed medicine bottles and lead to me devoting huge portions of my life to assaulting pill bottles. Worse … [Read more...]

It's close to six a.m., day of the big opening at Good Buy Charlie's. I'm standing in the crowd of sleepy-eyed, early morning shoppers. Such nonsense! Already, we're lined up six deep just to get into the store. Why am I here? I ask myself, marveling at the mass of humanity … [Read more...]

I was 24 years old and working for a life insurance company that I have since realized has reestablished my belief in karma. It went belly up and crumbled like dry cookie, as it should. Anyway, one good thing about working there was that it was the first time I had really great … [Read more...]