The more I learn about my unconfirmed disease, the more I think I may have been sick for some time. I’ve been really tired for a long time, and sick quite a bit… both signs of the suspected flavor of Leukemia floating around in my blood. In a sick kind of way, it’s a kind of vindication. All of those times I told Cheryl she had no idea how tired I was… all those times she gave me that “I…
Have you ever known a child to enjoy washing his or her hands too much? I’m not a regular on the parenting circuit so I can’t claim to be an expert; but I can tell you it’s a 50/50 proposition in our modest household. Our daughter exhibits many of the signs of phobia. She has little time for cleaning, and little use for clean hands. I didn’t think much of this… I always thought this was…
Have you had one of those moments in your life when you felt you had rounded a corner, and you suspected you’d never see the other side again? I saw my doctor this week – Wednesday in fact – and she told me she thought I might have Leukemia.
“But my cholesterol is o.k., right?”
I was in to discuss the results of a routine blood test – part of my routine maintenance program. I had spent…
There are a couple different shades of meaning to the word “exploit,” but when you say it angrily, you rarely mean it in a good way.
As the dictionary might say:
Use (a situation or person) in an unfair or selfish way.
The “e” word has been tossed around today in connection with calls for tighter restrictions on handguns; and to be honest, I wasn’t crazy about the timing… in light of…
Taxes are on some folk’s minds… not many, given the events in Virginia, Washington, and the middle east… but they’re on some folks minds.
According to the Hoover Institution, the share of income taxes paid by the top 5% of wage earners in the U.S. has gone up from 35% in 1980, to 58% in 2004.
It sure makes me glad I’m not in the top 5%! There’s no telling what that kind of crushing…
There’s a little flap in the Sunshine State over an email and illegal imigration.
What surprises me about this is not the email, or the fact that we have illegal immigration in this country, but what people perceive is the cost of illegal imigration to us – the legal residents. So I started a little research project. It turns out there is quite a little debate going over just how many illegals…
There’s a phenomenon frequently associated with “Windows PCs” where apiece of hardware spontaneously takes flight. It’s usually a keyboard or mouse, but in a few documented cases it has happened to monitors and CPUs as well.
Recent studies suggest this “phenomenon” is not spontaneous at all; but rather, a pre-meditated attempt by an owner to bleed off a little pressure from the boiler.
Perhaps this is a little sexist, but I usually associate clouds of personal scent (of the optional variety) with women. Imagine my concern when I walked into a public restroom and my nose was assaulted by the smell of burning money (speaking metaphorically). The air was thick with the smell of the vanity wing of a department store. It was so strong someone could have filled a potty with eau de…
All my life I could count on the rocks of Honeymoon Island. I don’t know the complete history of Honeymoon Island, but I seem to recall a story about a developer who thought it would be a good idea to stabilize the island by dumping tons of rocks on the shoreline. In any case, the rocks were the sole sore subject of the island since I came to Florida as a young lad during the summer of ’79. If…