Choices, good and bad, are in the forefront of my mind these days.  Graduation season, coupled with a most high profile national ‘sexting’ issue, has my thoughts turned toward the decisions we make in our lives.  A foolish throwing of…

When thinking of unbridled rage, my thoughts turn to television.  An out of control moment caught on video is an inescapable illustration of a person at their worst.  It would be easy to zero in on commentators and political figures as purveyors of anger but I’m doing my darndest to keep this forum void of polarization.  Sorry, there will be no link to a YouTube clip of…

Narrowly, I think I have averted that line also.  That line between surviving intact and getting run over.   While this cupcake image started out as a simple play on words, I often hearken back to it mentally as something more.  I feel I am at that precipice and fortunately, for now anyway, life’s steamroller seems to have moved on down the road.

When…

I suppose I am the only person that ever came up with the concept of putting a cupcake in a urinal.  I feel just a tinge of pride in that.  I actually had to clarify for some people just what a urinal cake is so they might better understand the humor.  I questioned if I should advertise that I had knowledge of less than gentile topics when my daughter informed me that she…

An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life.  “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.  “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.  One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego.  The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.”  The same…