My Dad Wears Mandals
My Dad Wears Mandals I remember when the Mandals craze began. At least I remember when it crept upon my family and took my dad hostage in its thorny little grip. It was the year 2000. Many remember that fateful year as the year that planes were supposed to...
“Ass-Effects” a Promising New Drug
Ass-Effects (Aciphex) may cause diarrhea. Ass-Effects, a real drug actually spelled "AcipHex," is a new drug from Eisai Company, Ltd., of Tokyo, Japan. The drug's country of origin should explain the lack of understanding of how this drug sounds on the TV when you're...
An American Dream … In India
I belong to this company that pays you to accept email ads. It's not too annoying and right now, I have $76 built up in my account. With all the advertising out there that I get bombarded with and offered no compensation, this is a welcome change. About a month ago,...
Thirty Years Later
Second grade. Mrs. Mim's class. It was a time of innocence and playfulness. We were kids who knew nothing of the gas shortage or the real world. The nation had not yet tasted inflation, political correctness hadn't been invented and computers were the size of an...
A Myriad of Grammar Problems
I've written about how our nation's spelling acuities have decreased since the advent of the internet. As a people, we spell bad. Real bad. But something that often escapes us is how bad our grammar is. Now granted, I have a Computer Science degree, not an English...
52 Fake Dog Poo
The world is an amazing place. Doctors and scientists find cures for diseases every day. We communicate through tiny waves sent to space in spectrums that we can neither see nor hear without some pretty amazing technology to translate. We can travel from one side...
The New Dinner Table
In days long gone, the dinner table served as a gathering place for families. It was the social gathering site where the day was recounted over a hot cooked meal, and the family coalesced into a single unit after being apart for the day. Life updates were exchanged...
Old Man Dancing
Stress is one of those realities of life that we all experience. Whether it's stress on our job or stress in our relationships, eventually this harbinger affects us all. It's how we handle this stress that separates our good days from our bad. One day last week, I...
Holmium Laser Lithotripsy or (Kidney Stone Blaster!)
This past week, I had my bi-annual kidney stone attack. Only, this attack was a culmination of a bunch of small attacks that have happened over the last few months. It finally got to the point where I couldn't keep anything down (read: upchuck) and I decided to call...
Pork, The Natural Laxative
Yesterday, I made the bestest breakfast in the world. I fried up three sausage patties, six slices of bacon, and two eggs over easy. Then I added two pieces of toast, slathered in enough butter so that it seeped through to the back of the bread. In an expert's...