Musings on Life and Living

I have been giving a lot of thought to the state of the economy these days, and wondering where we're going from here. I am now sitting in a computer lab at Parkland waiting for Gretch to finish printing stuff for her portfolio, an activity that she said would take no more than 30 minutes, despite the fact that we've been here for two and a half hours now, so I figured I'd blog about the economy. I apologise if these thoughts come across as disjointed. I've been writing and re-writing and cutting and editing far more than I normally do. But here we go: The economy is a vast, sprawling, tangled web of people, businesses, and ideas. And it is something that the federal government should have very little business meddling with. Our politicians are men and women of ideas. They set the rules. They make sure we all play nice. But when they start meddling with the game, the game goes sour. Imagine this scenario: You are playing basketball with a couple of your friends. You de...

It is funny the way we use different adages in our lives. We use some of them to describe just the positive. Others to describe the negative. And some don't really describe one thing or the other. We just throw them out there for the heck of it. I hate sunlight. Or, rather, I hate the brightness of sunlight. I don't know how much this has to do with my vision problems, but even my baby pictures reflect this. Well, at least one of the two does: Incidentally, I am pretty certain that the background of this photo is fake, but you can see that even the thought of being in sunlight makes me uncomfortable. (And yes, the baby in this photo is me. With my five older brothers.) Even now, when it is a beautiful, warm, sunny day, I know I will be walking outside and hissing at the sunlight. The day may be wonderful, but it is a knee-jerk reaction. It reminds me of Barney Gumble responding to a door being open at Moe's Tavern during the day: Anyway, it seems to me that when someone say...