Month: December 2017

Since our original chapter highlighting some of the delightful absurdities of House Hunters, like the Tiny House version, our home buyers have been kicking it up a notch.  In the interests once again of keeping our readers fully informed, here’s an update. Continue reading “More House Hunters – An Update”

For those cultures and traditions that don’t decoratively wrap up dozens, nay hundreds of gifts, truly wise.  Here in North America, as in much of the world, we provide a boon to manufacturers of wrapping materials as well as clearcutting many a forest to provide a festive atmosphere for our nearest and dearest every December.  Continue reading “Wrapping Up Christmas”

I’d like to thank the wonderful folks in marketing for throwing my internal seasonal calendar all out of kilter.  Remember when we didn’t hear Christmas music until, well, Christmas?  Now it’s playing in Home Depot right after Columbus Day.  By Veterans Day, we’re ready to take bows and arrows to reindeer and toss the venison in the freezer for Thanksgiving.   Continue reading “Regards of the Season – Whatever Season”

We Americans always seem to be in a hurry.  It’s on the highways with someone who thinks they’re a lower level James Bond coming flying by me, weaving from lane to lane.   Looking for divine retribution, I hope to see them in a ditch, unhurt but ego bruised a few miles down the road.  I even saw this unwelcome impatience in a department store in Florida among older people as they went up and down the aisles like snow-plows, looks of grim annoyance on their faces that said clearly, “I earned this. In thirty years, you can push people out of the way too.”   Continue reading “USA – Get Out of Our Way”