Shortly before my son’s high school graduation, our family’s attendance was required as yet another end-of-the-school-year awards “banquet.” I put the word “banquet” in quotes merely because a banquet conjures visions of feasting and reveling, perhaps a boisterous song or two and maybe even serving wenches. It does not speak of green bean boiled gray …
Author Archives: Jeanne Jackson
Texting For Dollars
June 17, 2009 – 6:38 pm
Who am I to criticize someone who has won $50,000? That’s what I keep telling myself about 15-year-old Kate Moore winning the LG U.S. National Texting Championship. I mean, really. What has anyone around here won lately? Actually, my first thought was, “They compete over that?” followed by “Why do we insist on turning everything …
Right and (Self) Righteous
June 10, 2009 – 6:37 pm
Are there still some people out there that missed the memo about the devaluation of property values due to the housing market bust? I mean, are there really some people who didn’t know that when housing market busts, it affects everyone‘s housing prices – not just the people of which you disapprove? Recently I read …
