Displaced. Dysfunctional. Discombobulated.
From the category archives:
This holiday season I’ve been feeling as though the holiday cheer has been sucked out of everyone. It just hasn’t felt much like Christmas or whatever holiday you subscribe to. Maybe it’s in part because I haven’t put my own decorations up since I’m going out of town and the last time I [...]
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I recently spent several days at a satellite conference — basically the real conference was in Florida but my boss sent me to a nearby Marriott to watch speakers make presentations via satellite as I sat in those horrible, uncomfortable hotel chairs and had to endure snow storms to show up on time. Anyway, the [...]
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I’ve been chewing on PunditMom’s post “How Are You Going to Vote?” for a while now. Mostly because it’s a subject that bothers me every election. PunditMom queries each of us if we are voting by consensus or by conscience? In other words, are we voting with the herd or voting with our heart? [...]
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I watched something on CNN the other night about Veterans’ Rights. Apparently, disability compensation for injuries obtained in Iraq and Afghanistan are based on the same compensation rates and policies set in WWII. Our soldiers are suffering unthinkable, life-altering injuries from weaponry not even imagined in WWII and the government is using a [...]
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I received the first heating gas bill of the season in the mail yesterday. Even though I had tried to mentally prepare myself for the horror, apparently nothing truly can prepare you. $429. They hit me right after the price spike too — $2.95/gal. I guess I should be grateful that [...]
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After much pouting on the subject of what wasn’t available for me to download to my iPod for audiobook “reading” pleasure, it came to me that now would be a good time to explore some history, religion, or philosophy I’m not too familiar with.
I’ve been wanting to read one of the books on suicide bombers. [...]
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I finished listening to Salem’s Lot via audio-book on Thursday and since then I’ve been hunting for something to fill the void for my commute. I hate driving but discovering audio-books has made it bearable these last few months. In fact, the last two books — Land of Lincoln and Salem’s Lot — [...]
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Ragged Old Flag
– Johnny Cash
I walked through a county courthouse square
On a park bench, an old man was sittin’ there.
I said, “Your old court house is kinda run down,
He said, “Naw, it’ll do for our little town”.
I said, “Your old flag pole is leaned a little bit,
And that’s a ragged old flag you got hangin’ [...]
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Remember when after 9/11, we were all filled with the pride of patriotism and the American Way? Remember how we weren’t going to “let the terrorists win” by changing us, by living in fear, because that’s exactly what they wanted because they wanted to destroy our American Way, our freedoms, our pride?
Well, they’re winning. [...]
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According to the Progressive Bag Alliance, Americans use roughly 90 billion plastic bags a year. Plastic bags may take up to 1,000 years to degrade in landfills. Not exactly environmentally friendly. If you’re a dog or cat owner, you probably make good reuse of them. If not…
you can order a cotton [...]
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Old age means realizing you willnever own all the dogs you wanted to.
-- Joe Gores
What: The discombobulated inner-monologue of a single, thirty-something, displaced Southerner in small town New England.
Where: Maine
