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Reminiscing about Pop … and Carmel

I heard the craziest thing the other day. Someone told me a local company was offering potential staffers an extra $2 an hour “bonus” simply to (A) accept the position and (B) once hired, work their full, regular old standard, run-of-the-mill 40-hour work weeks consistently. Meaning, er, ...

Who’s best of the best? Why mom, of course

I am one lucky gal. First — and of most significant wowzer factor— I am the mom of the world’s most fabulous human. Seriously. No offense to the other Homo sapiens or anything. It’s just that for some reason, and through no particular worthiness on my part, I have been blessed with ...

Great contraptions I should have invented

You see it every day. Modernization. Innovation. Conceptualization. You know, new crap. Happens each new dawn in America. And Canada. And the Motherland. And ... well, you get the idea — the earth dwellers are a pretty smart bunch of cookies. That’s why nothing unveiled, released, ...

Spring snow shows 2021 is as sneaky as 2020

So... it happened in the waning hours of the evening of April 20. One by one, they glacially gathered — silently, secretly and under the dark sheath of night as their cover and shield. They’re sneaky like that — cold-hearted critters They kept calling out to their little frigid pals ...

Let’s take a stroll down food, er, memory, lane

It’s amazing, really, what triggers memories in the humans. Frankly, even the faintest of feels can spark total recall in the average earth-dweller. At least, that’s what I’ve noticed in my 53 years of observing, I dunno, about a gazillion or so of them. I mean, give or take a zillion, ...

Adversity builds character and dippy proverbs

You know how they say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? I think that’s true. You know how they say adversity is the foundation of virtue? I think that’s also pretty accurate. I mean, after all, it’s like they ALSO say: “Into every life, a little rain must fall.” Right? ...