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The last time I hosted our small group meeting, I decided to make macaroni and cheese out of a box. I had just purchased a huge bulk amount at Sam’s. It went poorly, because I became distracted by something on the TV and boiled the noodles into a sticky solid carve-able orange mass. We basically …

I’ve always hated caragana trees. I use the word “tree” lightly because they are less a tree a more a confused and prickly-branched plant that refuses to stand tall and supply anything but fallen branches and whipping tools for fathers who catch their daughters lighting fires in the yard. (Yes, that’s another story for another …

It started when the women’s restroom was out of order, leaving us the men’s restroom. I stood there, in the restroom, looking at a strange little mat on the floor around the toilet. What in the world is that for? I wondered. I pondered its usage. It looked a bit like a stress mat that …

My friend sent me an email, sarcastically using the APA format for the body of it. This was no doubt due to a certain level of frustration with some online classes that have required intense accuracy of the format and sources used. His responses to me were clever and quasi realistic, citing FltPlan.com as he …

(Part 1: Initial exploration on this topic.) Maybe the whole point isn’t about catching the fish, but that having your head underwater for so long that it forces you to come up for air and re-evaluate. The thought has come to me — never mind the path it took to get here — that I …