The unemployment rate is often in the news, as is possible reasons for it, but I’ve never heard mention of the strenuous application process. I’ve recently been seeking a job, and feel like a paycheck is deserved for all the effort put into the search. Filling out the application was likely more difficult than some [...]
In some ways I feel like I’m in elementary school all over again, minus the daily wedgies, but even into adulthood our behavior is often childlike. As the smallest, and seemingly unimportant issues can turn friends into enemies. The means may have changed, but the end result remains the same when a friendship is lost. [...]
With the announcement of the cast for ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ comes hope that I could be chosen for an upcoming season. I am far from conceited, nor do I claim to be popular, but I can’t be much less known than some of the “celebrities” that will be competing on the hit series. Based [...]
Normally most men have to be dragged to the mall, but an exception was likely made on Sunday, Feb. 20 as a group of women staged a gathering of breast feeders in the food court of Fairfield Commons. Feeding time was held to raise awareness of the fight for breast feeding in public to be [...]
It’s that time of year again, when I realize that my movie viewing choices do not match with the Academy, as I haven’t seen most of the Oscar nominated films. While I was enjoying the hilarity of ‘Dinner with Schmucks’, I should have been following the drama of ‘The Kings Speech.’ Despite my limited knowledge [...]
It may be the year 2011 but somehow we are stuck back in the Ice Age. It only takes one blown wire for all of today’s modern amenities to be taken away from us. For 12 long hours, about 10 of which was spent sleeping, I felt as if I was trapped in some prehistoric [...]
“I was homeless for awhile. I didn’t want anyone to know so I slept in front of a Ticket Master.” – Dwight York While on stage, Dwight York delivers one-liners in a rapid fire succession. The jokes keep coming, one after another, with minimal set-up before the explosion of laughter. He sees no reason to [...]
It’s a question that has plagued the world for generations, not even able to be answered by the brightest minds who found a way to outer space, cured diseases and created Farm Town on Facebook. Perhaps, we will never find out what Victoria’s secret is, but if she is anything like the title character in [...]
As proven by Ted Williams this week, some times fairy tales really do come true. Life certainly can be stranger than fiction, if the events were in a Hollywood movie they would be viewed as totally unrealistic, but You Tube proves that William’s miracles are reality. Talk about a tale of inspiration, Williams went from [...]
This big, wide world is full of differences, but no matter if you are rich or poor, 30 years old or 92, from Ohio or New York, everyone has a past. A common element we all share is memories of growing up, which shaped our lives and is remembered in ‘The Wonder Bread Years.’ Written [...]
