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Try to imagine placing something about the size of a ping-pong ball inside your mouth and having it protrude out the side of your left cheek along your jaw bone. Are you imaging that? Well, that’s about what I looked like on Wednesday afternoon when I walked into the dentist office. For about four days […]

Hi folks! On Wednesday afternoon, I had to have emergency oral surgery performed on a nasty tooth abscess. And can I just tell you something? It was not the least bit enjoyable. However, I think it will make for a great blog post next week. That is, once I can begin forgetting how painful it […]

Quite frequently while I’m googling for photos to add to my blog posts, I will discover images that I may not being looking for at the time, but will suddenly give me an idea for a future post. I know this may sound strange, but often times I get my blog post ideas from an […]

When I was in my late teens my mother gave me a desk and a typewriter for Christmas. And I remember her saying to me, “I got you these because I know you’re a writer.” Funny, because I always knew I could express my feelings much clearer through written words, but never considered myself a […]

No sooner do I trim and coif the hair in my nostrils, two or three days later I once again have what appears to be two little bunny rabbits growing out of my schnozzola. It’s strange, because as the hair on my head recedes, the hair in my nose seems to precede. I’ve nicknamed my […]

As you all know, I hate summer. And I don’t mean dislike, or don’t prefer, or don’t enjoy. I actually mean the word HATE. No, wait, allow me to be more specific. I hate what the summer brings….HEAT. The type of heat that makes me feel as though I’m taking a 3 month sauna in […]

First, I want to say, I hope you Madame’s and Monsieur’s had a super week. I miss ya’ll terribly. Needless to say, my week in retail was exhausting, long, and chaotic. However, you would have been so proud of me because I didn’t even have the slightest urge to tell an annoying customer to sit […]

The sweet image you see above is from Herman Turnip, author of Terrible Analogies. This is a photograph of he and his son Tyler, hanging out together; watching TV. When I saw this photo posted on Hermans’ blog, I felt like it totally epitomized the essence of a fathers’ love. So, I asked him if […]