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What I did on summer vacation 2023 will either bore you to tears, or make you break into them. Depending on whether you can relate to an old lady who had to work all summer in 312 degree heat. I got in my car one afternoon–which had been sitting in the...

The strict dress code of bad guys is telling. What it is telling, I’m not sure, but we can learn much about the society we live in by studying this fascinating topic. Namely, why being a Bad Guy pays and pays big.
Dress codes are, or used to be, the norm. Now, of course, you can wear sweats and flip flops to depose a client, but not in previous eras. Oh, no. You had to wear a suit, a tie, and shiny black shoes, unless you wore spats. Spats were the end all of...

Selling your house in a Nanny State of Nerves is deserving of strong drink, except I had run out. A vodka and orange juice hits the spot after a day spent with middle schoolers. “She called for madder music and stronger wine!” But my bottle wasn’t a...

Substitute teaching is the bomb. Literally. I often feel like I might explode or implode. Maybe both at once. How would that work? I can’t say because my teacher was gone that day and we had a sub.
Recently, I reluctantly emerged from retirement and a nice, prolonged nap on the couch in order to go back to teaching. It took almost five months to get my California and Nevada licenses renewed. These are renewals. In other words, if I haven’t committed...