Someone I used to work with emailed me out of the blue and asked me to write her a reference/recommendation letter. The catch was that it had to be done within 24 hours! Being the nice person that I am, I complied with her request. I just wish she had given me a bit more [...]
I’ve got friends who live in North Carolina and they’re currently in the market for a new home. I don’t know how they manage to handle looking around for houses on top of everything else that comes along with the holiday season, but they don’t seem to be bothered by the extra burden. The reason [...]
The news is so full of dire reports that it’s really nice to come across something like this once in a while. There’s a couple in Oklahoma that just celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary. Gene and Elinor Coleman, who are 96 and 94, respectively, were married on November 28, 1929 and have been together ever [...]
How stupid can people be? Apparently there’s no limit. I just read about a 21-year-old guy up in Canada who didn’t know how to deal with a feverish baby, so he got the brilliant idea to stuff her into the freezer — and close the door. The mother came home and rescued her baby, but [...]
I love Christmas and all, but the lengths some people are willing to go to in order to score the “hottest” toys of the season just blow my mind. The PlayStation 3 retails for about $600 or something like that. But since Sony insists on debuting its products in very limited quantities, there’s a whole [...]
I managed to make it through Black Friday unscathed. It’s been a few years since I ventured out on the busiest shopping day of the season, but I decided to go with my cousins just in case we came across a good deal. Of course, all the best items were snapped up by the frenzied [...]
Sometimes I read something in the news and I just have to ask, “Why?” Why would anyone in their right mind think that creating the world’s biggest rubber band ball would be a worthwhile pursuit? Aren’t there just a billion other things this guy could have spent his time and money on instead of using [...]
It’s not unusual to read about old women who end up with an entire apartment full of cats, but I think this is the first time I’ve heard about someone having this many dogs. The Humane Society in South Dakota received complaints about a particular rural residence and discovered that a woman had anywhere [...]