The image of having a dog begging and/or waiting for food below a family dinner table is as iconic as The Beatles crossing Abbey Road or Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out at the camera or the construction workers eating lunch on a steel beam of a skyscraper in New York City where, I鈥檓 ...
Thanks be to the retail gods that the holiday shopping season is finally over! Most of us survived, although broke and broken and broken and broke and, of course, broke.So, as I recover from the endless stream of television commercials fed to me over the past two months, I find myself pondering ...
I don鈥檛 know about anyone else, but normally around June or July, my thoughts go to whatever will be considered the words or phases that are most used throughout the year. Such insight comes when you don鈥檛 have much of a life.For the year 2020, it didn鈥檛 require much thought power to ...
Last Christmas, I became a responsible adult when I finally learned how to make homemade eggnog.Also last Christmas, my brother gave me an advent calendar, but instead of punching out the days leading up to Christmas and getting a chocolate, each day had one of those miniature bottles of booze ...
Well, it鈥檚 been a few years since I settled the long-held debate that 鈥淒ie Hard鈥� is, in fact, a Christmas movie.Since then, it seems like many folks have accepted that logical fact. I鈥檝e seen more and more 鈥淒ie Hard鈥�-themed Christmas ornaments, games, advent calendars, mistletoe and ...
During this year of joy, giving and other crap like that, many parents will be entering local retailers, clicking online and making shady cash purchases from vans in alleyways to get the perfect gift for their little dependents--I mean, children.As a service to these parents, here鈥檚 my ...
