I venture to guess that most of us, if we have ever thought about dust jackets, have not thought much about them. In fact, up until my having mentioned it, the vast majority of both my readers have probably never given them much thought at all. What exactly is the purpose of a dust jacket… Read more »
Posts By: Sam White
Parsimony
I have always been on the frugal side. OK, let’s just get it out in the open and say “cheap”. I realized yesterday I have become even more so than I used to be and, being a true “Generation X’er”, I look outside myself to place blame. Yesterday’s revelation was brought to me—and, by extension,… Read more »
(Almost) Panic Time
It’s almost that time of year that the men of America’s churches fear the most: that day of reckoning when we have to decide what to do about Mother’s Day. This doesn’t seem to be a problem for women. Women are just natural gift-givers. I think it’s biological. See, women have this ability to get… Read more »
Look Who’s In the BIG Town!
You don’t have to go far to find someone lamenting that Americans have a weight problem. Turn on the TV and there will either be a “paid advertisement” for a weight-loss or exercise system (“use our machine and in just six weeks you’ll look as good as Chuck Norris or Christie Brinkley!”) or a news… Read more »
Weird Thoughts
Have you seen the commercial for the cable television company that features a panda getting all excited because the cable guy has hooked him up with a channel of bear porn? Shouldn’t this trouble us on a lot of levels, not the least of which is that pandas are marsupials? A panda should be no… Read more »
Dick Tracy Did It First (and Better)
You may have noticed that the new “it” thing is the computer-connected watch. For people who are tired of having to haul around something as big as a cell phone, you can now bring the world wide web right to your watch. It is never made clear, in the commercials anyway, why you would want… Read more »
Candy is Sandy
I don’t have a sweet tooth. I have sweet teeth. I like almost all forms of sugar and couldn’t care a whit about all those posts on Facebook about how sugar is killing us! [noise of slump as I collapse on the keyboard … just kidding!] Without sugar, what would life be? Would it be… Read more »
“Kiss” Begins with What?
“Every kiss begins with __________.” If you filled in the blank with “slobber” or “tongue”, well, I’m not sure whether to congratulate you for having been unsullied by Madison Avenue or wonder just what you were thinking. After all, who kisses with the tongue first? It’s lips, right? At least, that’s how it is where… Read more »
Lost in a Food Desert
Great stretches of our country—or maybe it’s small stretches of our great country are—no I think I had … never mind. The thing I want to write about today is “food deserts”. Now, some of you are thinking that sounds pretty good because you read it as “food dessert” and who doesn’t like dessert? Oh,… Read more »
A Shot of Crassitude
If you are one of the people who watched the Grammy Awards on Sunday night and thought the best performance of the night was by singer Natalie Grant who walked out on the “show”, don’t feel too bad. It just means you have taste. Or forgot the Grammys were on. Don’t feel too bad about… Read more »