Thanks! I, um, love it?

Follow The Steps So here is the step-by-step on re-gifting: 1. Receive the unwanted gift with grace and thanks. 2. Always re-gift to the giver. If this person is not a trained re-gifter, explain. So much thought went into choosing the gift, it would be unfair for the gift to be wasted by you. 3. […]

Happy Birthday, Dammit.

My husband and I were an exercise in opposites attract. Where he hated birthday celebrations, I will always celebrate my birthday. I have more reasons to celebrate than he ever had reasons not to, which is why we always celebrated his, too! Where’s the box? After that, a package from my mother arrives, perfectly on time, […]

What You Heard Was Not What I Meant

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Specificity is the rule.” -Author unknown, but whose hand I would love to shake. Common misunderstandings come from saying one thing, but meaning something totally different from what the other person understood. Humans have some annoying, correctable idiosyncrasies which prevent them from communicating with others. Average person will listen to four words before formulating a […]

Pass the Tax Rebate

Part VIII of the Auto Saving Series. This is the final segment of the series. If you missed a segment, start at the beginning. Charity advertisements bombard potential donors with the tax advantage of donating a car to their charity. The benefits of donating a used car, RV, boat or airplane goes beyond just the money you […]

Analyze This

After much brouhaha over my poem Survivors, I am reluctantly putting out another one for your perusal, but this one has a request: Tell me what it means to you. It is all about you. Contrary to all of my noon posts for a week, eh? Well, this one truly is about you. When writers […]