Tag: Random Posts
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Sail on the Titanic… In Missouri?
Branson, Missouri is well known for live music shows, entertainment, amusement parks and other fun family activities, but it’s also home to a unique, world class attraction – The Titanic Museum. When you think of the Titanic, you might think of the sinking ship or the blockbuster movie with Leonardo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet, but…
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How NOT To Make Money Blogging
There are tons of articles out there on how you can get rich blogging. Everyone has advice on how to monetize, but there aren’t many articles telling how to NOT make money. Until now, that is. Writing is therapeutic for me and it’s fun. I enjoy watching my thoughts turn into words for others to…
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Pizza Before Fast Food – ALWAYS
In a time where everyone is health conscious and on a budget, why would anyone eat anything other than pizza? As much as I like pizza, I’ll admit I do like assorted fast food also. Back in the day, I used to enjoy hitting up a value deal once in a while for lunch because…
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OCR: Obsessive Compulsive Recycling
Recycling is generally good for everyone, but things can get interesting when obsessive compulsiveness is thrown into the mix. Like many other Americans, I recycle because it’s the right thing to do. I routinely recycle far more than what I put in my trash can. Does this make me special? Not really, but it’s how…
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Why Are Homeless People Scary?
Human fears are sometimes driven by first impressions based solely on appearance. The homeless are often unfortunate victims of these invalidated perceptions. The motivation for me to write this article came after a woman recently called the police because she was afraid for the safety of children near a school when a homeless man was…
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Where Do People Go At 4:45am?
I had the unfortunate pleasure of driving in nearly bumper to bumper traffic at 4:45 am. Yes, 4:45 AM. I’m not talking about Los Angeles, New York or Chicago where you have long commutes and outrageous traffic any time of day or night. I live in Kansas City, a mid-sized, average American town. It seems…
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Why I Don’t Read Political Posts
Opinions posted on social media are like people’s butt cracks. Everybody has one, but we don’t all need to see them.. I’ve been on Facebook for many years, but I was never one to post very often, especially rants. Nor was I ever an overly political person until the 2016 elections when America was so…
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How One Phone Call Changed Who I Am
We all like to think we know who are, but every once in a while something happens that changes the entire way you look at the world, and yourself. As a kid growing up, I really didn’t know much about my family heritage. I’d heard stories about my family history, but as a child you…
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Littering Makes Me Angry
I’ve never been a hippie, but I feel myself turning into one more and more each day. It’s not because I believe in peace and free love, but rather because of people who are too lazy to use a trash can. Maybe it’s a bit of an exaggeration to say I’m turning into into a…
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Procrastination and Useless Facts
Time is a valuable thing, yet we continually waste it. When it’s gone, it’s gone and we’ll never get it back. If we know the resources of time are limited, why do we care so little about it? _____________________________________________________________________________________ I learned the word cereal is derived from the name of Ceres, the goddess of agriculture,…
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Surviving Without Electricity…
I often write and speak about disaster preparedness and emergency planning, but I unfortunately had to practice what I preach after my house was blasted by a major winter storm recently. It was a lovely January morning in Kansas… I was happy and comfortable in my nice warm house, looking out the window at the…
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Humans are a Planetary Virus…
Humans don’t have a very good track record when it comes to colonization. The thought of corrupting a new planet is disturbing. I was reading an article recently about humans colonizing the planet Mars. It really bothered me thinking about the motivation behind this interplanetary expansion… Depending how you look at it, colonizing Mars could…
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The Annual Fight for Optimism
My New Year’s resolution has always been to NOT make resolutions. This year will be no different. Every year on December 31st, I shake my head in disgust, asking myself how I’ve wasted another year of my life. I wonder if the new year ahead is going to be better than the last. On January…
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I’m offended that you’re offended…
In a time where everyone is offended by everything, I’ve decided I’m offended by others being offended… Political correctness really bothers me. I don’t like being told what I’m allowed (or not allowed) to think. It’s not because I’m a rebel, nor is it because I’m a writer, but because I’m human. Whether its politics,…
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How a defective straw made my day…
We get so wrapped up in the craziness of life we often miss the little things. When you find some of those little things, life is so much better. I hadn’t been to McDonald’s in long time. Despite my better judgement, my kids convinced me to go. While waiting for the food to be brought…
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If You Hate Your Job, Find A New One!
If you love your job, you’re a rarity. If you’re not happy where you’re at, what are you doing to better yourself? Life is short. You deserve to be happy! We’ve all heard the saying “you only live once”, but have you ever really put much thought into it? We’re expected to work for more…
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Living as a Frugal Cheapskate
When you live paycheck to paycheck, living cheap is the only way to survive. Sometimes you have to get creative, but it’s not hard to do! There is no way around the fact that I’m poor. I have a job, but life has an odd way of seeing to it that I never get ahead.…
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A Fast Food Curiosity
This story isn’t really anything important. It’s just something I thought of while enjoying some fine dining recently. I was in Wendy’s restaurant a few days ago. I saw they had a dollar deal on fries. When I was at the counter I told the cashier I’d like an order of fries. She asked me…
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Everybody has an opinion…
I get interesting comments from people about my writing… Sometimes I get messages thanking me for what I write, but more often than not, I get messages from people who criticize what I’m writing about, specifically my articles related to mental illness. When someone has something negative to say, more often than not I don’t…
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Is Mental Illness Getting Worse?
While it may be just perception, it seems mental illness is getting worse in our society. It’s also possible mental illness is more identifiable now. Mental illness has been around forever, but I don’t remember it growing up. As a young child, I remember hearing a story once in a while about someone who took…
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When Crazy Drivers Drive You Crazy
It’s no secret drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs cause numerous accidents and fatalities on our roadways, but there is another type of impairment not being addressed by government statistics—stupidity. Distracted driving (texting while driving, applying makeup, doing anything other than actually driving, etc.) is just as bad as driving drunk, but that’s…
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Election Day – A Time For Friendship (Not)
Oh election day… How do I love thee? Let me count the ways… I’ve overheard so many conversations recently about “who are you going to vote for?”, which is usually followed by either “thank goodness” or “oh my God, why?”. I’ve watched the facial expressions of disbelief when someone disagrees with whoever is asking the…
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Parents Are Failing Our Schools
Public schools are plagued with problems, but many of the issues start at home. I may not have been in honors classes and advanced math courses when I graduated high school, but there were some things I was able to do. I knew how to read and count. I knew how to write my name…
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A World Outside of the Internet
Like many others in the world, I like to check my e-mail first thing in the morning while enjoying my caffeinated start up. I woke up one Sunday morning to start my daily routine of weekend nothingness, but found that my day wasn’t going to be as I had expected. As I attempted to log…
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Back to Work… (Sigh)
The Mega Millions lottery jackpot was 1.6 BILLION dollars this week. Like most of America who had lottery fever, I already planned out all the things I’d buy when I went to pick up my check today. But to my dismay, I wasn’t the winner. Someone in South Carolina won. The first thing to do…
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Frozen Pizza? Make the Right Choice
I spend far too much time in the frozen pizza section of the grocery store… Remember when you were a kid visiting the toy section of store? There were so many things to choose from. You looked at the selection with wide eyes running back and forth trying to decide what you wanted. You didn’t…
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What’s Wrong with People #1
I decided to start a series titled “What’s Wrong with People”. Why? Because I’m tired of trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with people. Maybe someone else has an answer. I’d been thinking of doing a “stupid things people do” article for a while, but I’ve been sidetracked (shiny things, loud noises,…
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People Should Be More Like Dogs
Humans confuse me. They’re always going somewhere and they’re always in need of something to do. Why can’t they just sit and look out the window? They wake up in the morning and they’re grumpy. They say don’t want to leave, but they do. They come home from wherever they were and they’re still grumpy.…
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I Need Sleep
I want to be rich. Not so I can buy a bunch of stuff I don’t need, but rather so I can go to bed when I want to and wake up when I want. Is this too much to ask in life? We drag ourselves out of bed and feel like crap throughout the…
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The Day I Won The Lottery
One day while I was in line at the grocery store, I saw I had a crisp one dollar bill in my wallet. I don’t buy lottery tickets often, but I do occasionally if I have a dollar or two on me. Luck has never favored me much in my life but I had a…
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Toys R Us – The End of an Era
It’s only been a few months, but I miss Toys R Us already. I don’t miss it because I need toys, but because of what it represents. I can remember many times as a kid wanting to go there. It was always the place to go when you wanted to see what was new in…
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Reversing Life Pollution
When a child is born, it is perfect in every way. It is innocent, pure and natural, not yet corrupted or polluted by the world. A newborn child has no fear, no judgement, no prejudice and no hate. It’s mind is open to infinite possibilities. When a human is born, there are truly no limits…
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Disaster: Not If, But When
Disaster preparedness isn’t a fun topic to think about, but it’s critically important for businesses. The time to plan is now! Every school in America is required to practice fire drills. Depending where you live, many schools also participate in tornado or earthquake drills. Sadly, most districts are now required to practice active shooter drills…
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Were You Alive in 2001?
This may sound like a weird question, but nearly a quarter of our population wasn’t even born in 2001. As we near the 17th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, I was writing an article about how different things are now compared to the year 2001. I was discussing how those who are high school…
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Pizza: The Key to Happiness
People always say “find your happy.” For some, this is sometimes difficult, but for me all I had to do was look at what was often right in front of me. I need pizza. This may sound like something we’ve all said at some point in our lives, but for me it goes beyond a…
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What Is Your Life Worth?
Finding perspective and appreciating what you have will help you realize the true worth of your life… Imagine yourself in a courtroom. You’re on the stand being questioned by a prosecutor; not because you’ve committed a crime, but because you’re defending the life you’ve lived. This sounds like the premise of a fantasy novel or…
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Lessons From the Homeless
I spent some time watching homeless people as they solicited donations on a busy street. What I found was not anything I would have expected. While it may not seem like a terribly exciting thing to do, it actually made me do some self-reflection about life, work and the daily drag we call our lives.…
Words with Pizza - Featuring Marty the Pizza Guy 