I was helping some friends move recently. We’d worked for a few hours. My screwie louie body was starting to scream, so…
When I started some of my environmental training, I was handed a huge notebook. It was 4" or maybe 5" thick. It was cumbersome.
This is a format I’ve used the past. We’ve already established that my head is a wild place; sometimes, I have two very different ideas that connect in my head, and I want to share those ideas and how they connect.
I’ve written in bits and tidbits here and there about some of the health issues I face. It’s complex and about as much fun as listening to two old men grumble about prunes and regularity.
My recent layoff and employment efforts have afforded me plenty of time to think and learn and write. One of the areas I’m exploring is reduce-reuse-recycle, that is, how can you refresh an old piece through dyeing it with natural colors to hide stains or other imperfections.
Resiliency has been an important topic in many psychological circles.
First, as a grammar geek, I have to admit there are two forms of the word: resilience and resiliency. Both have the same root buried deep in Latin from the 1600s, resili meaning…
I finally gave up.
I needed a new hair dresser/stylist/whatever the modern, politically correct word is. I’m so frugal that I get a perm and a trim, and I’m good for months. So long in fact, that my former provider has moved on and the business doesn’t even have my contact…
The Bible has sales reps. Okay, not under the kinds of titles we’re used to like sales representative, account executive, territory manager.
The Biblical title for a sales rep is merchant. And it was full of merchants — grain dealers (Isaiah…
I recently went to grinding whole coffee beans to make my coffee using a French press. My French press is glass and cylindrical.
Author’s Note: I’m not sure I like this piece, but I promised some very kind people for every “trash” piece I published, I’d publish at least two “good” ones. It’s kind of a hybrid between poetry and essay. The Scripture references to explain my melodrama include the following: