Writing about life... unrefined.
Scene: Local coffee shop. After a couple of crazy weeks, we finally have time to have a cuppa together. I just got my vanilla americano and you just got your (insert name of fancy coffee drink). We’re looming around a bit looking for a place to sit. Two old guys fold up their newspapers and get [...]
I hated the term “Return on Relationship” the first time I read it. I had been screwed over and used by a few people that I considered friends around the time that this phrase was becoming popularized. I wasn’t wrong about being upset that people were talking about cashing in on friendships, but I might have [...]
As a typical teen of the 80′s, you could usually find me at the roller rink, the movie theater watching the latest John Hughes flick, or… at the arcade. I spent too many hours and quarters playing Ms. Pac Man, Asteroids, and my personal fave, Centipede. I’m proud to say, you could almost always find [...]
What would you have to lose to gain the confidence to Get Naked? That’s the question we were asking at SxSW in Austin last week. We weren’t actually getting naked, silly! That question was the basis of a cheeky little campaign to inspire people to feel comfortable in their nakedness. On March 13, CoolSculpting took [...]
Having a cold is never fun. All that sneezing makes my nose stuffy. The worst part about that is not being able to smell all the marvelous smells in life. I can’t smell flowers. I can’t smell garlic wafting through my kitchen. I can’t smell the salt water floating on the breeze down at the [...]
It’s not that I haven’t had anything to say. Check Twitter. I’ve had plenty to say… just not as much as usual. It’s just that I was allowing myself some time to cocoon for the last few weeks, keeping to some editorial promises, letting others slide for a moment. The video that I posted a [...]
I was shocked when I heard this. So I ran to my computer and googled the words “state employee lunch nuggets” and found that my ears were not deceiving me. This is sad, but apparently, true. A state employee was rifling through a child’s lunch to make sure that it was up to USDA standards. [...]
