This is the short and the long of it      . . . William Shakespeare

Archive for September, 2009

Sweet Young Thing – Middle Aged Grump

Filed under Life  

a-leap-of-faith

These are such uncertain times but this young thing didn’t have a care in the world. She quit her teaching job, packed up her laptop and took off, landing in Santa Cruz for just awhile. After that, who knows. I was in The Ugly Mug for a meeting. There really isn’t a better place to [...]

Consumer Alert

Filed under Having My Say  

I don’t know about you but I’m getting tired of being a “consumer” in this new hostile age of automated voice systems and arbitrary rules. You might have already noticed a number of products being sold with the instructions: “Do not return this item to the store. Call 1-800….) Sometimes the notice is on the [...]