Category: Fluff
-
2025, so far I’m not impressed…
I don’t know about you guys but for me 2025 has been a hell of a year. I lost my mother and my two dogs within weeks of each other. I moved 1200 miles away to a new state, started a new job, and in a few more days will have bought a new house…
-
What Happened to the American Dream for Gen X?
My wife’s dog started barking at 5:30 this morning because he hates me, obviously, so I’ve been up for too long already. Engaging in my usual Sunday morning ritual (doomscrolling with coffee cup in hand) I came across a video of a history professor (or maybe economics I really don’t know) giving a lecture at…
-
Do not let them win
You earned all you have Don’t know if this will work, I’m still a little light on how things work here but I saw this on the gram and had to share it. Apparently companies are deleting female accomplishments to comply with the clown in chief’s desire…..
-
Inquiring minds want to know….
Can someone explain to me, like I’m a five year old, why having more jobs than expected (in the labor report for December) is a bad thing and sent the stock market (more importantly my I don’t want to work until I die account) into the toilet? Asking for a friend
-
the problem with editing
I sat down with my laptop to write a piece on a subject I have been mulling over for several weeks, but it seemed to me that I had already written about this subject before. so, not wanting to be redundant, I searched through my old posts looking for this particular subject. I was surprised…
-
#202
The most destructive myth, which also is probably the most widely believed, can be summed up in one word—ready. I’ll buy a house, start a family, save for retirement, write that book, take a vacation, start checking off bucket list items, (fill in the blank), when I’m ready. The best time to do anything was…
-
Another answer
With the move and all the chaos that goes with such things my wife and I decided to forgo the gift giving this year. In discussing our decision last night and in answer to the question of us cancelling Christmas this year, my wife stated, “If you bought me something I’m going to beat your…
-
Winter
That wonderful time of year when the weather turns chilly and my sweater collection comes out of the closet. Also the time of the year when I drive around in the first rains listening to my old and dried out windshield wipers skip across my windshield doing near nothing but create that nails on the…