Free the Eggs

Free the Eggs

Allowing a Strong America?

I had to go back and reread the comment and the stream it was in three more times just to make sure I read what I read. I slept on it and read it again the next day. Maybe I took it wrong.

July 8th in Joko History

Doesn’t the very term “Joko History” itself imply narcissism?  See, I could name two or three things that have really bugged me over the years as I have observed other bloggers that I am in danger of  repeating right now:  an inflated opinion of oneself (by using the calendar as a medium for re-posting, I […]

INTO THE DARKNESS — CPC “Friday Fling Writes Around the Campfire”

      INTO THE DARKNESS   I hear them even now when the night is still, trailing off into the darkness amid hushed whispers, muffled shudders and muted gasps, the ghost stories and scary tales we told around the campfire as the flames licked the black of night, stories told at precisely midnight when […]

The F Word

No not that F word

LOOKING FORWARD TO VACATION — (in words, slideshow, music)

LOOKING FORWARD TO VACATION I’m looking forward to vacation, can’t get it off my mind; it’s that time of year, and I hear vacation calling me. I’m dreaming of that day real soon when my flight lifts off the ground and takes me to the warm beaches I love and palm trees gently swaying in […]

Dealing with Anger

The Youngbloods Get Together with lyrics Dealing with Anger by James Clair Lewis Anger focuses the Mind, but it also narrows it. You never find a solution when you are angry. There is an interesting thing about the things that make us angry. When you share a good trait with someone else, that is never […]

of course I can…

there is a lot to know and/or remember, and plenty to do–but I think I can handle the new job…after my first day (today, Thursday) I went out to an O.M. and, because I agreed to, played some Who songs with some friends who were warming up for a gig that I’m not a part […]

I CAN’T BE LATE FOR MY FIRST DAY!!!

I don’t know why I was feeling so overwrought and nervous.  It was just an orientation.  It’s not like I was really starting real work yet.  Heck, I wasn’t even reporting to what is going to be my regular store.  For efficiency’s sake, they combine several stores’ new employees and have them meet at one […]

Set Yourself Free

Lilly Tomlin said, “The problem with the rat race is even if you win, you’re still a rat.” A lot of us are running a rat race – feeling caged into a life of running and giving to everyone else FIRST, sometimes at your own expense.