“I Can’t Make You Love Me”

If you lost your cell phone and had no way of retrieving all of your contacts, how would you go about rebuilding your database? It’s unlikely that would ever happen since all of our data lives in the “cloud,” but it got me to thinking. Who can I call in an emergency? Who wants toContinue reading ““I Can’t Make You Love Me””

Opinions are like ___holes and everybody’s got one

If you’ve known me longer than five minutes, you might have read my thoughts regarding prom wear, and last week I tackled the topic of school clothes. I was inspired, you might say, by a young woman at a big box store who was in front of me in the line to exit the store,Continue reading “Opinions are like ___holes and everybody’s got one”

Is it Really a Village?

In response to the fact that two 18 year-olds were responsible for two different mass shootings in less than a week’s time, I posed the question, “What’s going on with 18 year-olds these days?” I received a number of responses, and one that stood out to me was this: “…Please bring back parents and neighborsContinue reading “Is it Really a Village?”

A Word About Entitlement

About the Ahmaud Arbery verdict: it’s a shame that the nation was holding its collective breath and hoping that the jury would convict. I can’t speak for the nation, but I certainly thought that there have been times when a jury of supposed peers should have gotten something right, only to have gotten it wrong. Continue reading “A Word About Entitlement”