Any parent worth their salt knows to be prepared in the Winter months with an at-home pharmacy. Whatever over-the-counter salves and potions you think might help in the attack of the sneeze, sniffle, puke and surprise fever, you’d better have it handy because you just never know. Yet no matter how prepared you are, there are always those little nasty illnesses that require the trip to the doctor for prescribed goodness in a bottle. For the last four days, that goodness has been thick, liquid, bubblegum flavored, refrigerated and pink. …

Can I just preface by saying that whole election process wiped me out?! I’m so glad to go days without reading up on politics, I don’t know what to do with myself!
It’s that time of year. The time when I’m most stressed. Writing posts that don’t make sense. Looking at my job, wondering what it all means - which I haven’t been able to do a lot of lately since, in these times, I’m just glad I HAVE a job - and why I am where I am. Traveling thousands …

In the past, very few retailers empathized with the public financial situation. The goal of any corporately funded monopoly is to acquire as much as possible. In the business of retail, those acquisitions would be other people’s money. Whether they have it or not. Don’t believe me? Look at the state of the nation’s credit crisis. Not just Bob and Sue’s credit. The NATION. A whole country. All 305,571,248 of us. We are in debt up past our eyeballs and can’t understand why the common man bought into sub prime …

When I was a kid, my mother and father split up. There were various reasons behind the split (as there often are), but I wasn’t terribly affected as most stereotypes would point to being the case with children of divorced parents. I knew my family loved me. I knew my mother and father couldn’t be together. I knew they were better off apart. This sounds like great wisdom and empathy acquired from long visits to the couch of a shrink, but these are all things I was told I’d shown …