Yearly Archives: 2011

A Real Southern Winter Holiday Dinner

An unmis­tak­able smell of anise, cin­na­mon, cloves, and gin­ger lingers very dis­tinctly this morn­ing. If it was not for the fact that I knew what I had cooked, I could eas­ily have believed my mater­nal grand­mother had been cook­ing her … Con­tinue read­ing

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39 Years

We for­mally joined, at least as rec­og­nized by the state, 39 years ago today at 5:30 in the after­noon on a very cold winter’s day 5 hours west of the Prime Merid­ian. It all really started six months before that. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Where Did the Posts Go?

There has been quite a spell since the last post. What has hap­pened? Where did the posts go? Well, some got started, some were almost fin­ished; all of them were “down­ers”. I have no idea why they are all “down­ers”. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Struggles of an ENTJ Father Confessor

My work­place has been a bit tense of late; the dys­func­tional econ­omy, our own dys­func­tion, our customer’s dys­func­tion – a bit of a mess. Need­less to say, there are many opin­ions of what is wrong and what should be done … Con­tinue read­ing

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What If a Relationship Should Not Last?

The other day, we posted a dis­cus­sion on so many cou­ples enter­ing into a rela­tion­ship in ways that almost guar­an­tees fail­ure as the out­come. If you have read our blog at all you know that we are in a long-term, … Con­tinue read­ing

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I Am Zombie Bait

I thought it was just a joke, but now I am not so sure. And to make mat­ters worse, I am really wor­ried. When the US CDC posted Pre­pared­ness 101: Zom­bie Apoc­a­lypse it seemed like a bit of satire. But … Con­tinue read­ing

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England’s Own Puritan Ethic, also Death of BBC News

It is bad enough the Eng­land made the Puri­tans uncom­fort­able enough that they came over here and firmly estab­lished their sex­u­ally repres­sive atti­tudes into the Amer­i­can psy­che. But it appears that some of them stayed behind and are work­ing to … Con­tinue read­ing

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Bye Bye Bootie

Bye Bye Bootie I’m glad to see you go; Bye Bye Bootie, Why’d ya have to come? Time for sun­shine, It’s dri­vin’ top down time; I’ll smile Bootie, Caus’ you’re gone for good. … Well, you get the point. The Boot has … Con­tinue read­ing

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