I hated cough medicine as a child more than any of our siblings or cousins combined. It pains me to remember how I offered our parents a lot of upset whenever they had to give me some while I was sick. Head colds would regularly tear through our household like tornados starting with 1 sibling […]

I recently took a trip out west to visit the coast. While I’ve certainly seen much of the country, this was poised to be our first view of the entire ocean plus I wanted to make the most of the good times. My wifey wasn’t nearly as excited as I because she has made trips […]

I recently took a trip out west to visit the coast. While I’ve seen much of the country, this was poised to be my first view of the mighty ocean and I wanted to make the most of it. My girlfriend wasn’t nearly as excited as I because she has made trips like this yearly […]

Some tools and devices are extremely elegant by nature. When I purchased my first mp3 in the early 2000s, it was made out of metal and glass and survived a literal beating from me on a day to day basis. While it eventually died years later, it was after I stopped being careful and would […]

I assume the people I was with and I all dislike paying taxes although the people I was with and I understand their utmost merit and value to us all as a society. I honestly realize that my taxes pay for the roads that I travel every single day to get to work, plus maintaining […]

I don’t remember if my sciatic nerve injury in my back happened all at one time in one day, or over the course of 2 years. By the end of university, I started getting terrible pain after laying on my feet for extended periods of time. In contrast, I used to work 10 or more […]

I had to lighten up on drinking after I barely squeaked by in undergraduate university. It was a miracle that I was accepted into my dream grad university program and took it as a single chance at a new start. I wouldn’t get all of the chances I got while I was in my first […]

The people I was with and I even have brand new medical cannabis dispensaries that have opened in the previous few years after our current state passed a law legalizing cannabis for medical use several years ago. My city exploded in population after the global economy slowly rebounded in the early 2010s. Prior to that, […]

It’s hard budgeting for my tax bill because I never seem to cut even with the contract gigs I complete from week to week. A lot of my friends look forward to their incoming tax refunds at the beginning of the year, but I’m constantly wondering if I’ll have a bill such as I had […]

I will never forget what it was like to be alive 30 years ago when people were still smoking indoors at a huge number of indoor areas. Decades before that, passengers smoked cigarettes on airplanes! The thought of that nowadays is horrifying, as I’d constantly worry that the cigarette’s fire would ignite the oxygen in […]