Image via Wikipedia I follow the writing prompt of the day to irony and a wrinkled blouse that gets wedged against the ironing board that stands idly by lacking interest. With each pressing moment, blouse increasingly reacts badly to the steam. She is a shriveling mess and does not respond well to the pressure. Poor… Continue reading
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Just A.D.D. and Me and the Circus in My Head.
Image via Wikipedia ADD means different things to different people. To a mathematician, it means counting up. To a contractor, it means increasing square footage. To the tangentially inclined, like me, it means living with a circus in my head, deciding between watching the high wire act, the trapeze artist or heading to the concession… Continue reading
I Live in a Place Called Hope.
Image via Wikipedia A metaphysical place that is . . . as I reflect on the past year without cracking the satirical whip. Right now, in the east, it is bitter cold and snow covers the ground. Folks are losing their jobs and there is a huge gap between rich and poor. Despite my own… Continue reading
1960 Plane Crash Victims Families Exploited by Local Media.
Image by writRHET via Flickr Fallout from a Plane Crash. On December 16, 1960, United Flight 826 and TWA Flight 266 collided over Staten Island, New York. The United plane, while attempting an emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport, crashed into the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. From the Green-Wood Historical Fund: Ten brownstones near the… Continue reading
Reanimated after Death in the Unemployment Pit.
On the back shelf of my musty brain, I found emergency reserves of optimism to keep my thoughts afloat, not adrift, mind you. Otherwise, I’d be doing the doggy paddle in a sewer somewhere with the rats that stole my ego. I eventually got my ego back, not from the rats. I grew a new… Continue reading
Ideas Stew in a Crockpot not a Crackpot.
Image via Wikipedia Metaphorically Speaking. I write even when I don’t write. Thoughts simmer in my head like a Crockpot stew, as extraneous distractions, potatoes and carrots, pop to the top of the meaty brew. But where’s the beef? Holding its breath at the bottom. While thoughts simmer, the aroma wafts into my brain at… Continue reading
How to Prevent Traumatic-Post Stress Disorder.
Channel your energy to your writing and not to outside distractions. Fads pass through the blogosphere faster than a toe-tapping politician can talk his way out of a bathroom stall while an unamused cop rattles a pair of handcuffs. But fads are just distractions, as is stressing over frivolous stuff, like your subscriber count,… Continue reading
When Reality Bites You in the Ass and You Can’t Bite Back.
-Back to Work Back Post- Cover via Amazon I went back to work on Monday and haven’t had time to write. As soon as I strike a balance between reality and the virtual world, I’ll start sloughing the mind flakes.Until then … How blogging saved my mind but not my 401K. REPLACING THE DECK… Continue reading
The Backside of the Unemployment Front.
Image by kk+ via Flickr What Employer’s Want! The war is not on terror or on global warming or on 3-foot tall green aliens. The war is on unemployment and we, the jobless, dodge bankruptcy bullets and enemy credit combatants every day while trying to capture a job on the front line of the employment… Continue reading
Guest Post on 2012 DVD at Blazing Minds – The Actors Look Smaller on TV!
Image by joanna8555 via Flickr While watching the movie 2012 on DVD, I had time to compile a marketing list, as well as to ponder the weak plot points – the movie goes on a bit (2 hrs, 38 min). So, I decided to write a review. It’s not an ordinary review because my mind… Continue reading