Margie's Place Menu
The following menu was written by my step-father Bob, and printed for all dinner
guests. It described our Thanksgiving meal, November 28, 1974. Everyone in
attendance was celebrated with an appropriate dish or
Inappropriate Holiday Greetings
I know that businesses send holiday greetings to their customers so they will
continue to use their services, but there is just something a little wrong about
a funeral home sending out a
Man in Black Transends
I was talking to my landscaper—a hard-working, Latino small-business owner—and
when I mentioned that we were going to Nashville over the holidays to visit
Deborah's family, he told me
The Right Way
I'm not going to give any credit to the red and blue bears who populate their
world, but there is never any doubt that every Charmin commercial shows the
toilet paper
Every Day
After publishing these observation posts for more than four years—with a
regularity of 70-80% of the days, but much lower in pandemic year one—I reached
1,000 posts in mid-December 2020.