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Hey, Where Did the Summer Go?

I’m not the biggest fan of the summer. I don’t like being covered in sweat when I get to work. I don’t like being devoured by evil hungry mosquitoes. And I despise flying beetles sneaking into my home getting caught in my ceiling fan’s down draft and landing in my sleeping face. I also don’t [...]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Love this song. It takes me back to my youth when the family, and I mean all of them, got together for every holiday from Mother’s Day to New Years Day. Times have changed and we’ve been through (and are going through) some stuff. But the love remains. This is how we used to do [...]

I BELIEVE…

That most people want to be happy but just don’t know how. In many ways it’s a life-long journey. But you have to want to take the journey and know what it looks like when you arrive at certain milestones along the way. That’s the hard part. Being a jerk is beyond easy. Sure it [...]

A POTTY MOUTH CHRISTMAS

Have you noticed that people, even in a big city like New York, chill out and relax their nerves a little during the holidays? Me neither. But let’s assume they do and we just haven’t been in the right place at the right time to experience it. I do think in general we feel more [...]