Arrogance

What do the experts say about it? Arrogance comes from a lack of self-awareness. The arrogant person cannot see their weaknesses and exaggerate their strengths. Arrogant people tend to not have an accurate picture of how others perceive them and lack an appreciation...

Pumping Gas

There’s something so cool about New Jersey, aside from the food and the accents.  You don’t have to pump your own gas.  Like it’s a rule.  They’ll yell at you if you even try to.  You stay in your car, roll down the window and say “filler...

Bloodwork

Once you hit Medicare, they want a lot of blood outta you.  Blood for this.  Blood for that.  Then they send the results with everything inside a range that means nothing to me.  I had bloodwork done Wednesday.  Just before I left the house, I crammed about six...

Christmas Gifts

Over the years I’ve received several questionable ones.  Like a towel.  Not a set of towels, just a towel. Underpants from my mother.  I was in my twenties and they were boxers.  Just plain awkward. Never wore them.  Great dusting rags though.   A canvas boat...

Martha, Rachel and Wendy

I had a job at a nursing school for seven or eight years.  Loved it.  Nurses are notoriously the most unsympathetic people going and they have to be.  Matter of fact.  Black or white.  No bulls*t.  My godmother was a nurse so I get it.  One Thanksgiving while chopping...