Mother's Day
This Sunday is Mother's Day, a day for us to sit back and reflect on what terrors we were as children and then call our own mothers and apologize profusely for our behavior back then. :) Some believe the origins of Mother’s Day lie with Mothering Sunday, a tradition from the 16th century where individuals would return to their “mother…
Derby Day
The greatest two minutes in sports™. The run for the roses. The sport of kings. Tomorrow is the first Saturday in May. That can mean only one thing: Kentucky Derby Day. Ladies in fancy hats sipping mint juleps rub shoulder to shoulder with betting men, all while watching to see which of the twenty three-year-old horses run the fastest 1¼…
What if...?
My Day Job is stressful. I listen to some truly horrible calls. But, the nature of the job dictates that I deal with facts. Remember that 1960's show "Dragnet"? Friday was always telling people, "Just the facts." Sometimes I get callers who want to play the "What If" game with me. They ask "what if this happens?" over and over…
K.I.S.S.
My dad was a Marine and for many years growing up he was a Reserve Officer. Whenever he'd help my sister and I with projects at school or even at home, he'd always tell us to K.I.S.S. - Marine speak for Keep It Simple Stupid. Or in the case of impressionable young ladies, Keep It Simple Silly. Either way, the…
Brainstorming and Good News
Like I mentioned last week, I've been in a bit of a story funk lately. While I am confident my story is good and my motivation to continue telling it is still there, I've been stuck in a rut. There were - are - some rather big plot holes and I just couldn't figure out how to fill - or…