The really BIG news today was a story about whether or not the school administration at a middle school in NJ could insist on a dress code for an eighth grade dinner dance. Are you ready for this? The debate is whether or not 12 and 13 year old girls could wear strapless dresses to [...]
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Give a mouse a cookie, and he will want a glass of milk.” from “Air Force One” with Harrison Ford Besides the fact that I loved Harrison Ford and Glenn Close in this movie, this line really stuck with me. I love this line. I have repeated it to myself a million times. Why? Because [...]
We all grew up with idols. People we looked at and dreamed we could ‘be like’. What do you do when you meet one of your idols? From when we are very small, we have idols. People we admire. People we dress like, or talk like, or play sports like. Humans need idols, and heroes, [...]
Jennifer Livingston, a morning anchor from WKTB-TV in La Crosee, Wisconsin has earned my “Cape of the Week” award! The video is viral. The message is an antibiotic for toxic talk and bullying. Jennifer delivered a Right Cross to the pompous non-viewer who wrote to her at her workplace, criticizing her for her weight and [...]
I think the technology gods are angry with me. That must be the case, because I have just been engaged in my third battle in our ongoing war in as many months… I don’t really hate technology. It hates me. I have tried to embrace all the new thingys; DROID phones, Bluetooth headsets, tablets and [...]
Bad hair days are one of the Great Mysteries of Life. My mother used to tell me this. And I haven’t seen a whole lot in more than half a century on Earth to dispute her statement. But I have a theory. This past week, I was talking with my daughter about her recent haircut. [...]
I know I am dating myself by quoting that old tag line. I remember the ads – does anyone else who uses today’s Social Media? You were asked to figure out if you were listening to a real person, or a tape recording of a real person. The idea was: the tape was as [...]
I went to see the new Revel Casino in Atlantic City. Actually, I didn’t go just to see it, I just took the opportunity to check it out while I was down there. And thus began my Odyssey! Let me just say: I’m not a big casino person. In fact, I’m a “Spend $20 on [...]
My mother is frail. I may as well say it: My mother is dying. I knew this when I came out to see her. I didn’t know how tiny she had become. Tiny and tired and frail, her skin stretched across her cheekbones, her world shrunken to her tidy house and the routines that keep [...]
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