You’ve Got To Be Kidding

When I moved to California from Atlanta a year ago, I was overjoyed when I discovered that I had left state employees with an Attitude behind. Granted, my only California experience on which I based this observation was with the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles), but...

I had my bubble burst in the bank yesterday. The bubble that said that now that I am here in laid-back California, I won't have to adhere to rules about when Christmas trees go up and down. Having lived in Atlanta for more years than I like to count, I knew too well...

My European friends swear by it and now it's creeping into our American health conscious culture. I heard it being espoused on one of the mainline TV networks just last week. Eat locally--that is, only fruits and vegetables that come from your local area. That means...

Every profession has its own lingo, meanings of which are not always apparent to the uninitiated. The profession with which I am now dealing is real estate--and finding a place just to rent is reminding me of vocabulary--and other knowledge--that I have had on some...

I am weird, and apparently have been that way for some time--and I've only just found out. Now that was a shock, or maybe it wasn't, as I've always suspected I was perhaps "different," but would I have gone as far as to say I was "weird?" Maybe not, but now I have the...

I just came back from the neighborhood's latest cash guzzler, seemingly installed to suck the last red cent out of those who dare to enter. It is seductively arranged to lure even the most dedicated to frugality--will they pull it off? It's the latest in glamour...

They're back. The Today show has once more reported, and so it has to be true, that we are again in danger of being eaten alive by the dust mites that inhabit our beds and pillows. If you don't want to believe it, the doctor who reported this most disturbing...

I was tired of paying to have look at myself as I might appear in a coffin. The fluorescent/neon/gray-blue/steely hard edge lighting in the hair salon where I had been going gave everyone that look. So I decided to change salons and went to a place that had been...

I found myself hooked into watching the finale of one of those bachelor programs that has apparently been going on for weeks--the ones that start with one guy having to choose one out of 25 women over the course of 8 or so weeks. This one was "The Bachelor in...