True Life Blog

Let me start off by saying that I LOVE Starbucks. Truly, I do. In fact, if it wasn’t for my daily dose of Starbucks coffee I don’t think my circulatory system would circulate. There is nothing on this planet more “life force giving” as when Starbucks coffee hits my bloodstream; making my heart race, my [...]

Last Saturday afternoon we had our first snowfall here in Philadelphia. Earlier in the week I kept hearing that we were going to get some snow on the weekend, so I was jumping up and down and clapping my hands for five days; zealously anticipating a snowfall like the final scene in the movie White [...]

Who knew when I was a little boy; dreaming of owning a Barbie doll, that one day in the distant future there would be a doll invented just for me? Billy. Billy was created by artist John McKitterick and marketed in the United States by London-based Totem International as “the first out and proud gay [...]

Hi Folks! With this being the last day of November, I just wanted to let everyone know that posting throughout most of December will be very light. This month gets extremely busy for me with my work hours doubling as we get closer and closer to Christmas. So, starting next Monday I will only be [...]

Well folks, it’s finally here. The scariest day of my life….BLACK FRIDAY. I think it’s strange that for someone who has been in the retail industry for umpteen years, I’ve never known where the term Black Friday came from. Thank heavens for wikipedia, because I discovered it’s origin right here in Philadelphia. “The term Black [...]

Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, I would like to use this post to reiterate the things I have to be grateful for. Last year, on this same day, I shared a post about something that happened to me when I first moved back east and how it taught me to notice the abundance in my [...]

As most of you already know, I never watch TV. In fact, the only time I turn my television on is to view a DVD rental. The last time I remember watching TV was when Golden Girls and Designing Women were still on. Could you die?? Television has never really been one of my favorite [...]

Hi Folks! Just wanted to let everyone know that I will be taking a weeks intermission from posting on Vent. I’d like to spend this time focusing on researching and reading blogs for future interview posts. Ever since I started hosting these interviews, I’ve been delightfully surprised at how much I’ve enjoyed putting them together [...]