Baseball 2019 Predictions

Baseball is back! I’ve written plenty about my love of the sports ball here, and I’m one of the gazillions of people that make predictions about the upcoming season. Being a long-suffering Cleveland Indians fan, I dream of the day when MY team gets to win the World...

How good is this diet?

I don’t write about diet and nutrition  very much, but today I found some information that I thought people would want to know. Leah McGrath, (on Twitter @LeahMcGrathRD), says in her Twitter bio that she’s a “wife, dog owner, omnivore dietitian, agvocate, public...

3 Things About the Weather

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” That’s an old quote that was traditionally credited to Mark Twain, but was more likely said by his friend and collaborator Charles Dudley Warner. Regardless of who said it first, it’s a nice...

The Patience Test

Many stand-up comics use customer service incidents as material for their routine. People laugh because they can relate, having had similar issues. One of my favorites was from Jeff Foxworthy, he of the “you might be a redneck” fame. He once said, “I called and this...

3 Arguments Against Daylight Saving Time

I’ve ranted and raved about this before, but now that the day has arrived, I’d like to talk about it a little more. I hope this comes off as a reasoned position in a debate, rather than as a rant from Get Off My Lawn Guy. Having spent 18 years working for the...

Show That You Care

This week I have been doing freelance writing around creating excellent website content. Also, a newsletter I receive had a discussion about proper out-of-office messages combined to get me contemplating how you take care of the little things about writing. Taking...