I used to use ePinions.com website when it first came out and was heavily marketed. I enjoyed reading the reviews because they gave me some fairly sound advice when considering a whole gamut of merchandise and services. But now? I’d rather stick my hand in the garbage disposal.

It’s disheartening to [...]

Dear Friends, Relatives and Morons:

Three-quarters of my email is filled with junk and sadly most of it’s making it there because of you. Do me a favor, before you hit that forward button to share with me the world’s largest woman or about the $5 serial killer plot or the purple polka dotted [...]

The Pie Dudes are in a pickle. Pickle pie? Sounds gross to me.

The school the kids now attend apparently has a very high poverty rate. It’s rumored 80% of the student population qualifies for free lunches with low income averages. Being this is the Pie Dudes “landmark year” (6th [...]

I was doing a bit of digging. Rumor has it the editor of the local rag is leaving. I’m vexed with that news, but that’s a different story. As usual, I wound up reading something else that struck a chord with me.

Editor/columnist David Little of Chico Enterprise Record (ER) wrote [...]

We’ve seen it, heard of it and (lord help us) may have even done it ourselves. Nasty, dirty, evil revenge—the dirtiest, low down job there is: sugar in the gas tank. And no, as God as my witness, I have not done it.

But that hasn’t stopped me from wanting to.

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You’ve heard about the [...]

The other day Z-dude agreed to push a knot out of my back that had been giving me some problems and consequently, him, too.

When he was donemore-> he flopped down on the floor, arms sprawled. “Well, Mom, where’s my back rub?”

I laughed as I scrambled up off the sofa to drag out my umpteenth [...]

This poem, published here without the title, is a bit of an experiment. Please participate! I’m curious to see what you glean from this little ditty and in a week or so, I’ll publish the title. Let’s see if your ideas/opinion changes… more->
Protracted silence

Catacomb labyrinth

Windless hollows

Footfall follows
Splay me

Fillet me

Coated gravy

Baby, oh Baby
Stealthed choice

Lost [...]

Have you seen them? Maybe heard them? It’s Ford saying that they called up a bunch of folks and convinced them to come on in and swap their current non-Ford vehicle. Ford claimed it was for marketing research. And that’s where I have a problem. more->

As a former marketing researcher/supervisor/analyst, it [...]

If there is one true element that exists throughout my career, whatever that happened to be at any given moment, is the absence of a sound business sense or rather, a sound marketing plan.  I can get the work done and, according to those who’ve been my clients in one fashion or another, extraordinarily well.  [...]

Okay, I’ll admit, I’m in serious sleep-deprived get the bleep out of my way mode.  I went so over the top yesterday, reasoning and rationalizing why I wasn’t taking a nap or why that extra cup of espresso would be fine and then stared at the backs of my eyelids trying to block every sound [...]