t know who first coined the expression “live in the moment” but I do know that I always found the phrase irritating.  I mean, where else was a person going to live?  Short of time travel, there wasn’t much choice.  Turns out I was wrong.  It happens from time to time.  While it’s true our [...]

The season of schmoozing is upon us again. While some look forward to all the party talk, I am the sort that is intimidated by it.  I love to listen but am not always great at responding. Too often my quick wit button gets set on delay which means I come up with the perfect [...]

For an entire year I was forced to go cold turkey on the woodstove habit.  I did not have an easy time of it.  In the winter the stove holds me like a yo-yo on a string.  It reels me out to feed the animals and to work at my desk, but before long its [...]

Two people, one cart and a very big grocery store; three key ingredients in a big batch of annoyance.  In every couple one is the cart pusher and the other is the seeker.  Unless, of course, you’re one of those in sync duos that are joined at the hip and sensibly and methodically go up [...]