Category: Commentary/Opinion

When Right Is Wrong

It’s normal for me to find things while I’m out running or cycling. Within the past year I’ve found two phones and I happily returned them to their owners, an easy task considering that neither phone was locked and there was a contact labeled Home in both of them. Easy. The owners even gave me … Continue reading When Right Is Wrong →

When A Bargain Isn’t A Bargain

People love their bargains and we’re no exception. We’ve used sites like Amazon Local and Groupon to snag some fantastic deals in the past and all of them were handled the way we expected them to be. And the deals are usually comprised of the same formula: get $[retail amount] of merchandise/services/food for $[discounted amount]. … Continue reading When A Bargain Isn’t A Bargain →

That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore

The image you see to the left is how the front yard of our house, the one we’ve lived in since 2004, starts to look as the leaves begin to fall from the sweet gum tree situated in the parkway. It’s a big tree on city property that yields shade in the Summer and as … Continue reading That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore →

Frustration

Have you ever been in a situation where you’ve been so frustrated that you just throw your hands up and want to walk away from it? That’s what we’re dealing with now. Without getting into too much detail, it involves all of us and an organization to which Anthony belongs but not for much longer. … Continue reading Frustration →

The End of An Era

Gee, it seems like it was just 2008 when I wrote about one of my childhood haunts being shut down for good. And just today I found out that the second portion of that childhood, Lakewood Batting Cages, was closing their doors forever – today. Like almost everything noteworthy, I saw the news on their … Continue reading The End of An Era →