I am extremely excited that I am in the middle of this new cosmic shift. We are moving away from the days when the entire world is interconnected by all these cool gadgets and tools, and the government does not allow employees to participate ( Read more... )

“You are so lucky to be making all that money; when I was your age, I was making ½ that and raising three children.” Does anyone else’s mother throw this in their faces? I do not want to turn this into a war between folks with kids and folks without. I just want to decry against the unfairness of how the system works against those of us who have ( Read more... )

I am worried about some children I know. Their mother is convinced that they have one psychological disorder after another. She’s also been branching out to the physical illnesses. This woman has no medical training and no medical background whatsoever - she just picks things up off the telly and the internet ( Read more... )

I'm trying to keep the drippy, personal drama posts to a minimum. I'm actually trying to keep the drippy, personal whining in my life in general to a minimum. I'm trying to ignore all the CRAP that is my life and concentrate on the day-to-day business of keeping my life on the tracks and celebrating what few positive elements of my life. In ( Read more... )

We're now almost a decade into the 21st century and perhaps it is time to think again about lofty ideals and real life practicalities. I know that as a naive 18 year-old just graduating from high school, I and my contemporaries believed that the world was an orderly sort of place where the followers of systemic rules would be duly rewarded and ( Read more... )

Yes, I am the commercial police. I've already dashed off my letters to Progressive Soup and Campbell's protesting their ignorant spread of the fear of MSG. I am going to give in to the delusion that the reason those annoying commercials have diminished in their frequency of broadcasts actually has something to do with me. (Please don't dispel my ( Read more... )

Several weeks (months?) ago, I deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts, along with MySpace and BlogSpot, retaining only my LiveJournal account. The reason I did this was because I thought all these social networks were getting a tad out of hand, and I was never all that social anyway. However, I attended the 8th Annual Government Customer ( Read more... )

A complete non-wine drinker, I attended the Albuquerque Wine Festival at the Balloon Fiesta Park today. Every Memorial Day weekend, I've always attended the SCA camping event - Grand Outlandish. This event has made it impossible to do anything else that is scheduled for Memorial Day weekend. I've always wanted to attend the Bernalillo Wine ( Read more... )

I have now attended two events in as many weeks where presenters were a primary factor. The first was a conference and the second was a training situation. Both events again brought home the importance of the presenter's role, and how important that person's delivery is to the presentation's overall success ( Read more... )

I am not talking about your family, your friends, or the obvious other primary players in your world. I'm talking about your support structure. Who is your bus-driver? Your doorman? The woman who gives you your first cup of coffee each morning? Your crossing-guard ( Read more... )