My precious. Now someone please shove me into the fiery depths of Mordor. Or bring me Vigo Mortenson. Whichever.

I am surrounded by jewels. Square cut rubies, multifaceted sapphires, round emeralds, amethysts, yellow diamonds… they rain down upon me as I race to match them up.

No matter how many times I line up the [...]

Mike at Too Many Mornings was corresponding with Nicky at We Work For Cheese when he acknowledged that he was bored.

“Nicky, I’m bored again. Please entertain me,” he wrote.

Nicky had an interesting reaction to this request.

“What am I, a dancing monkey?” she replied.

But then, because Mike is a good friend and has been [...]

So, while we’re waiting for Mike to get back to us on the wonder that is pickled cheese, I thought I’d share with you a very profound realization I had yesterday.

I was watching a show called American Pickers. Two guys, Mike and Frank, drive around America in their truck, [...]

Recently, I discovered a very funny blog called The Neurosis Files. The author is June O’Hara, and besides being funny and a wonderful writer, she is an incredibly perceptive judge of character.

Let me backtrack a bit. I am a card-carrying member of Tribal Blogs, a fantastic blog community of talented, humorous, [...]

So, a little over 3 weeks ago I wrote about how I was looking for a job since my previous position had been abolished. I was feeling pretty upbeat, had a couple of tentative offers, an interview, the possibility of some freelance work and the names of a [...]

Don’t.

Ever.

I was going to write about my vacation, but Nicky used up all the good post titles. See, I couldn’t call my post “Road Trip To New York” because it sounds too similar to Roadtrip To New Jersey. And, I couldn’t put the word “Vacation” in the title because [...]

Are you looking for things to do on vacation? Here’s a comment I left on Facebook when asked what I was going to do during my vacation:

Doin’ somethin’ if I feel like doin’ somethin’, doin’ nuthin’ when I feel like doin’ nuthin’. Gonna daydream and write and sing off tune. Gonna go to the beach, [...]