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...]

People NEED skin. It keeps everything together. Without it, your organs would be hanging out and in danger of getting stepped on, zippered up or buttoned. Ouch! Think about it! Most people need clothes, too. For the most part, people without clothes are either Aborigines or … [Read more...]

If parenthood were a corporate America type of job, my wife and I would never earn a promotion. We do satisfactory work at most levels of the job description, but we constantly come up short in one area which our employer would consistently note as "opportunity for … [Read more...]