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My day started off pretty positive: nice cup of coffee, a breakfast burrito, a short walk, and then bam! I’m hit with an incredibly unpleasant surprise. While visiting a hospital, I used one of the public restrooms. I couldn’t help but see this prominent signage. What particularly caught my attention were the words “DO NOTContinue reading “One Step Closer to a Nanny State”

There’s been many wise sayings around learning from one’s failures. Have you heard any of the following: maybe on a motivational poster, on a tea bag, or from an older-and-wiser somebody? Fail fast. Failure sucks, but instructs. Don’t be embarrassed by failure; learn and start again. We learn more from our mistakes than from ourContinue reading “Learning from Failure”

Hopefully, you weren’t watching our live, local TV news coverage of this morning’s Women’s March. We had a local event in our downtown, near our weekly farmer’s market. I was on my routine shopping trip for fresh vegetables when a TV reporter asked if I would be willing to be interviewed. “Sure” I innocently responded.Continue reading “My Response to the Women’s March”

Playwright’s Note: The characters’ lines might read a bit like James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. However with some imagination as to how the lines are delivered and the activity on stage, one will discover it tells a very simple story. Each character’s line is a palindrome–the sequence of letters reads the same backwards and forwards. PunctuationContinue reading “A One-Act Play In Palindromes”

I’ve recently been thumbing through my Western Field Guide to Email Messages. I spotted the following emails flying in my Inbox recently. Gray Low-writer (micrononpunctuous) – These email messages demonstrate the author apparently had the SHIFT key and all punctuation-related keys removed from the computer keyboard. These emails need to be carefully deciphered like ancient Greek manuscripts.Continue reading “Western Field Guide to Email Messages”

Pillowology is a fascinating discipline within the bedding sciences. Every day, I’m reminded that during college, my wife earned her minor in the bedding sciences while I was goofing off. I’m guessing her interest began during high school. We grew up in different cities and my high school didn’t have any courses–let alone AP courses–inContinue reading “Pillowology”

The following are short poems created by typing with only the left or right hand.* Left Hand As a creed: extra crafts create taxes.Swedes weave grease vests few wear.Crazed cats get free water sweaters. Vast waves are at Warsaw’s west reef.A stressed dredger crew craves rats.At dreaded estate, few trade raw qat.Crates are craved asContinue reading “One-Handed Poetry”

Philanthropy comes from two Greek words meaning “brotherly love” and “man.” I was reflecting on how this brotherly love has been spreading with technology. For example, I received an email that was encased in a series of forwarded emails-like one of those Russian nesting dolls. Once I clicked down to the original message, I learnedContinue reading “Philanthropy and Technology”

Admittedly, I’m a bit of a geek and I know enough about email marketing campaigns to be dangerous. So, when I saw this email from the United States Postal Service arrive in my Inbox, I had to grab this screenshot. Inspired by the USPS, I’m going to send a ye olde letter (yea verily withContinue reading “USPS Email Blunder”

Let’s imagine you “unplug,” go “off the grid,” and spend a few weeks backpacking the Pacific Crest Trail. After you’ve enjoyed your refreshing time in nature and return to “civilization,” here’s the email you don’t want to read first. Hi there! Hope you had a great time. Looking forward to seeing some pics! I checkedContinue reading “Welcome Back from Your Backpacking Trip!”