Sweep It Under The Rug

Sweep it under the rug means to conceal or ignore an issue rather than confronting it.  Everybody does it.   Taxes and Trump.  Sweep it under the rug.  Not the one on his head, and not the one in his secret documents room. My mother used to sweep it under the rug when...

My Sanity / My IRS

First let’s start by placing my hand on a bible swearing this story is the truth and nothing but. What’s that?  Oh you’re right.  I don’t have a bible.  I’ll go with a quartz countertop. Wait.  I hate this countertop.  It shows every...

A Skeptic of Weight Loss Trends

Right around the time I hit forty, most of me was in pretty good shape.  Decent muscle mass. Consistency on the ceramic throne.  Hair still making an appearance.  Eye sight and hearing like a bat.  But, a little flabulous around the waist line.  Nothing major.  Just a...

I Feel The Earth Move …

I really did.  We all did.  The text chains were buzz’n.  We just had an earthquake, and no we certainly had no idea what to do other than panic.  They just don’t happen here.  It is known that Manhattan sits on a fault line, but everyone passes that info...

On Being Short

I wasn’t an athletic sorta kid. But I was smart, which usually meant being a grade ahead of most kids my age. Puny, that was my norm. The part when kids picked other kids to be on their team was torture for me. If there was a minus zero draft pick, it woulda been me. ...