All right now. Everybody needs to slow down just a little. Someone please tell me what it is with all these tote bags. And no one better tell me that we are saving the planet with these canvas marvels, because the opposite is true. I realize, this is the point where I get in trouble …
North Dakota Blues
“Fifty Nifty United States From thirteen original colonies.” If you have, or ever had, a child attending middle school then you have probably heard this song. They taught it to me when I was in fifth grade and to my kids even earlier. If you’re not remembering, then you might be in denial about your …
Parts Is Parts
I am a highly intelligent, worldly man, who does not succumb to the rhetoric of paranoid conspiracy theorists. I read, and research, every fact to exhaustion, so that I can understand the issue to the fullest. When trouble rears its ugly head, I remain calm, and never get flustered in the least. If you need …
Ever The Name Shall Meet
What’s in a name? Shakespeare wrote, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But what if you’re allergic to roses? The names would be very different, much more colorful, and far less flattering, than if you weren’t. Admittedly, he was referring to surnames and not adjectives, but it must be considered. Therefore, …
Drink ‘Em if You Got ‘Em
Well, it’s that time of year again. The NBA finals! (Sound of cheering fans.) Who will it be this year, the Warriors or the Rockets? Perhaps the East will dominate with the Cavaliers or Celtics. Who knows? Either way, we are in for some great competition. (I hope no one sprains a pinky finger. That …
Feed The Birds Or Not
Spring, that glorious time of year when life once again returns out of the havoc that we call winter. I love spring. The only thing I wish about spring is that it lasted longer than a week. I don’t know about you, but where I live, winter runs a little long then suddenly there are …
Danger! Fitness Center Ahead
I am noticing a disturbing trend. It has creeped into our lives in a very subtle way and grown into a destructive entity destroying our collective soul, like a societal tapeworm reproducing itself a million times, in a thousand different forms. In my fifty plus years of course I realize that there must be change, …
Dream Job
I have found my dream job! I don’t know what it pays, but it doesn’t matter. When you’re doing what you love, the satisfaction is its own reward. Unfortunately, there’s not much information on which companies actually hire for this elite skill. Monster.comdoesn’t mention it at all, but if you want something bad enough you must …
Survivor? Ha!
The other day I was looking through my local TV listing. Actually, I wasn’t looking through it per se, as much as I was searching for the answers to the crossword puzzle on page one, which, as it turned out, happened to be on the last page I looked at. Then I proceeded to fill …
Winter Games
Four years have come and gone, and we are once more plunged into the world of winter sports as we watch the Winter Olympics. The beauty, the pageantry, the three glorious minutes of spectacle before we go back to ten minutes of commercials. These take the gold medal for network profits. Of course, in modern …
Mr. Ohh!'s Sideways View 