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I took a trip into Milwaukee today to have my hair done, and impulse buy a couch. Not totally an impulse. The original plan was to order form Ikea, but when I realized that the couch was $466 and the shipping would be an additional $380? It no longer looked like such a good deal. […]

We just had trivia night, here at the local high school. They’re trying to raise several million dollars for a new weight room, something that would be about as useful to me as a set of gills. But I’m trying to be a good sport. We bought tickets, we bought raffle tickets, we bought into […]

It is the end of the school semester and I am fighting for screen time with my two kids. We all have deadlines. We all need the computer to complete our work. And we all want to play games on the thing to relax afterward. I got a proposal out to my editor last night, […]

There is an essay written by Robert Benchley. I think it’s called, “The Way to Get Things Done.” The process he recommended was to make a “To Do” list, putting the most important things at the bottom and the least important things on top, preferably underlined in red, and starred with “Do this first!” Written […]

There are times in everyone’s life when they have to open their eyes and admit a mistake. You can’t keep plunging on in the wrong direction, blundering around and waiting for a miracle. It’s like that with me and the couch. When the kids were little, we invested in a set of This End Up […]