Last month, as we approached Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I felt compelled to express my disdain at how commercialized the Christmas holiday has become. Sure enough, come Monday morning there were fights over flat screen televisions in Wal-Marts, taser brawls in a mall and despite feeling vindicated about my observations, the actions themselves just […]

It’s Already Here… By now you know it is coming. It might have attacked you at one of the local stores while you were browsing or it may have held you captive while listening to the radio in your car or on your television screen while watching the game. Christmas is here and here to […]

Halloween I really love Halloween. Maybe it’s because my birthday is on the 19th of October, so as a child it was always easy to spot when my birthday was coming up. It could be because in modern times, the holiday allowed you to dress up and take on a different persona than your own. […]

Libraries Libraries have always been a source of solace and solitude to me through most of my life. I was one of those cliché kids that gets cut off from their peer groups and ends up having to spend most of their time alone. So living right across from the Scottsdale Branch of the Chicago […]

Sometimes in life, we are dealt some pretty bad cards. No matter how much we try to make a pair, its seems we will have to give up and fold. In my life, I’ve had my fair share of bad hands, but unlike the unlucky poker player, I’ve yet to fold and have unlimited form […]