Sometimes I feel like my life is really a movie; you know the kind where there’s some kind of cipher and everyone else is in on the secret but me … The DUH-Vinci Code. It’d probably be a lot easier if people stopped trying to communicate and just talked.
Part of the problem is that [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘words’
12/03/2007
Words, Words, Words
08/08/2007
Honestly
It’s not easy being honest. Especially when you honestly want to dismember the person ahead of you in the checkout line.
My wife and I dashed out to the new local Gigant-o-mart (recently built approximately 2.6 miles from the old local Gigant-o-mart) for a few vital grocery items; Cheetos, Poptarts, and two skeins of fuzzy purple [...]
05/12/2007
Legal Warning
Author’s Note: This is actually a piece I wrote about fifteen years ago. It’s never been published, that I recall, so I’m recycling this week. It’s been a busy week…what with my birthday, the Loreena McKennit concert, Les Mis at the PTC, and Oz at St. Joe’s. Oh, and the new word for the week is hospice. So, bear [...]
11/18/2006
Enjoy This Essay!
The illuminated sign on the front of the soda dispenser screamed out ENJOY! in letters large and bright enough to be read by nearsighted people in locked closets a half mile away. I wondered why the soda company felt compelled to tell me how to interact with their product. Were they afraid I wasn’t smart [...]
11/05/2006
Business Writing
From what I can see there are two ways to become insanely wealthy as a writer; pen a best-selling novel or publish a business advice book.
These days most best-selling novels deal with globe-and-time-spanning conspiracies, or dueling magicians, or failing marriages, or dueling marriages and failing conspiracies, or failing magicians and dueling conspiracies. I don’t think [...]
