I will join your club, support your cause, volunteer to man your booth; but please, for the love of all you hold sacred, don’t make me come to a meeting. Theoretically, having a meeting seems like a good idea: gather together all the players into one room so everyone knows what their role is and …
Author Archives: Jeanne Jackson
Shut Up and Drive
May 20, 2009 – 6:17 pm
I was blithely driving down the interstate one day when, looking ahead as I topped a hill, I noticed a line of cars stretching a half mile long in the right hand lane behind an exceptionally slow-moving vehicle. They were stuck there, the poor saps, because those of us who had looked ahead had already …
Mea Culpa
May 13, 2009 – 6:15 pm
I was seven years old when a nun told me that any sins I didn’t admit to in confession I would have to reveal at the end of the world to everyone who ever existed. Everyone. My parents would be there, my teachers, my brothers, The Pope – every Pope – Captain Kangaroo and Paul …
A Brief Moment of Smug
May 6, 2009 – 6:14 pm
It is not often that I get to gloat. I mean, it’s not often that I get to gloat about something I, personally, accomplished. I can’t gloat over Heir 2 graduating next month with a grade point average over 4.2 or that he will attend Roanoke College on an academic scholarship. That’s his accomplishment and …
