Does Reality Still Bite?
My Saturday morning started with an early morning showing of the 1994 Gen X classic, Reality Bites. Fifteen years later, the movie still strikes a chord and makes me wonder if we ever got over our quest for nirvana in a world ruled by Baby Boomers? Looking around at my friends, it seems we’ve grown up. After all, we’ve moved out of sharing an apartment and rent with friends, to sharing a mortgage with a spouse. We’ve traded the Big Gulp for Chardonnay and microbrews. And we’ve moved from The Gap to jobs with companies that provide benefits to our families and pay us enough well enough to send our kids to private school. On the surface, reality doesn’t look so bad anymore. Or does it? Today’s reality equals mortgages, child care, car payments,...
Read MoreThe Mr. T Influence
Sometimes when my evil twin and angelic twin collide they do not always play fairly. Today, my angelic twin was cleaning out old photos and having difficulty throwing away such precious faces from the past. And then my evil twin appeared and said, why not scan and make a post of it. Now I did spare some of them for future posts when the two forces will inevitably collide again, but today, I was taken in by the huge Mr. T influence of gold necklaces, which all those dear friends who were kind enough to give me their school photo are proudly...
Read MoreThings that make me feel like a kid
Summer is my favorite season. I love it when it’s real humid and is in the 90′s. It just reminds me of being a kid again, growing up in NC. So today, as I sat with my feet dangling in the pool, I contemplated all those things that make me still feel like a kid. 1. Eating a PB&J sandwich anytime of the year, but especially after a day at the pool. 2. Jumping off the diving board. I think I could still do a back flip. 3. Doing a cartwheel in the grass barefooted. 4. Drinking a slurpee/slushee from 7-11. 5. Swimming under water for as long as I can hold my breath. 6. Riding a bike down hill. 7. Playing basketball in the driveway. 8. Waving sparklers on the 4th of July. 9. Eating Halloween candy for breakfast. 10. Playing PacMan or Centipede at the...
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