If you have nothing left to live for, then you should keep on living just to see what happens next. Never give up; never stop searching; never stop exploring, questioning, or adventuring.
Here is a story of epic proportions. This is the stuff movies are made of, but it’s all real. Unbelievable and horrifying, yet [...]

Ugh, I made a terrible mistake. I looked at the site’s stat page and saw someone had recently viewed a post from over two years ago. I went back and read it. It was about week 2 when we were doing Body for Life.
Damn, I sure used to be optimistic! I sounded happy, too!
To [...]

I recently read an article that said there is a shift in a fundamental belief that Americans have long held near and dear to their hearts. In the past, when times got tough, Americans paid their mortgages while not paying their credit cards. It used to be that home ownership was the Holy Grail. People [...]

Tags: Dooce, dreams, economy, future, Heather Armstrong, home ownership, hopes, Life, scam

I want to write a post, but I can’t think of any one topic to stick with, so this is just kind of a buffet of half-baked thoughts.
Stefan is still out of work and we are still waiting to hear anything from my workplace about the job posting he applied to back before November. [...]

Tags: buffet, go with the flow, house is making us sick, LIEMAX, Return to Common Sense?

Wow, what a difference between the way in which we welcomed 2000 and 2010! I can hardly believe the 00’s are history. Seems like they were here just yesterday! Back in 1999, I was working at Capital One. We were all frantically busy on setting into place mitigations for the potential big world computer clock [...]

Tags: 2010, ;), decade, dreams, fun, go with the flow, hope, hopes, tether

Happy New Year! I initially wanted to talk about all my thoughts around starting a fresh decade, but a more pressing matter is at hand. I will get back to it, I promise.
After spending almost two full weeks at home, I have come to the conclusion that there is something very, very wrong with our [...]

Tags: anxiety, dreams, fear, hopes, house is making us sick, job, please

Hey everyone!
Holly wanted me to “pop the New Year Cherry” by being the first post of 2010 on our little mind-spill of a website.
Here’s to wishing you all a wonderful new year–may it be filled with love and peace and lots of hanky panky. 
Oh … and here’s to wishing the boys and girls [...]

Tags: 2010, ;), facelift, hope, love, New Year, Noah, Return to Common Sense?, silliness

It’s finally here. The news is out and in a couple of years from now, a few of my other Associated Content articles will be getting lots of readers. I wrote a few pieces about college myths and why I don’t regret not going to college. In about twenty years, I think I will be [...]

Tags: college, common sense, Freakonomics, ironic

I came across this interesting article about a college in PA, that back in 2006, put a stipulation in place: you must have your BMI measured and if it’s above 30, you must take a mandatory exercise course that meets for three hours a week. If you do not take the class, you do not [...]

Tags: Big Brother, bizarre, liberal agenda, loss of liberty, outlandish, progressive nightmare, sickening, unconstitutional

Dear Health Insurance Companies:
I am writing to inform you that no matter how difficult you make it to use your services; I am going to use them anyway. I am paying your bill every month; I believe that qualifies me to use your services when I deem necessary.
If you require me to look up on [...]

Tags: health insurance, Obamacare, scam, Soapbox, vent, whistling past the graveyard