Archive for August, 2007
Hard Candy
Before I grabbed my notebook, handbag (I’m fancy; it’s a handbag) and umbrella (because the weather in New York positively suuuuuucked last week), I noticed that Boyfriend Turned Husband had filled one of our little pretty (read: pointless) Waterford bowls with mints, so I helped myself to one.
I popped the mint in my mouth and [...]
Anger - The Only Emotion
I live in Metairie, Louisiana. It is a suburb of New Orleans and I’m about six miles from the heart of the city. Two years ago, Hurricane Katrina ripped through my city destroying it and changing millions of lives forever. My parents lost their home and all their belongings. I lost my job and virtually [...]
Dustinland
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Dustin Glick is a lateral-thinking human being. He thinks “outside the box,” so he doesn’t posit only on the changes that average humans can make to their everyday lives, he wonders about the plight of, well, “special” people as well. Not the type that lick windows, but that have [...]
The Moodspins Asinine Trend Tracker
Introducing a new feature: the Moodspins Asinine Trend Tracker. Yes. The M.A.T.T. (And no. Acronyms will never be considered asinine here.)
Every month or so, I will look at a trend that just doesn’t seem right to me. Some will include lengthier discussion of the trend than others. [...]
Hodgepodgeatorium - Perception
It’s the year 2007 yet some divides have yet to be bridged. There are clearly two segments of society that view certain situations and events differently. It’s frustrating. As a member of one the aforementioned segments I really try to see the other perspective yet I come up short nearly every time. [...]
And So It Goes
Last winter, Boyfriend Turned Husband was tooling around in the folder labeled “One Day This Writing Will Pay Offâ€, a sub-folder of the main Melissa folder. I told him that if he wanted to get a better sense of me, of my writing and the way that I think, that he should feel free to [...]
MCS: States Aren’t Humans
“…the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it … the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.” - President Theodore Roosevelt, a letter to Cleveland Hoadley [...]
Dustinland
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Okay, okay. I know that everyone thinks that anyone who complains about their job is a big whiny baby, especially if they get to sit around all day and play Snood. Many of those people have a valid point, but the jobs Dustin and I talk about were actually important, [...]
Random Exit: Comfort Zone
We are imprisoned by our own lies. A wall of fear keeps us locked into a safe, predictable measurable life, measured by the people we love, the houses we live in, the jobs we have, the accomplishments and credentials we’ve gained, etc. But none of it really means anything, unless these measurements are conscious choices [...]
Anger – The Only Emotion
I have worked seven different jobs in my lifetime and I am merely twenty-eight years old. The things I have seen and witnessed range from the virtually obscene all the way to the moderately tame. The examples I give in this column are aimed not at one specific someone from a particular place of employment. [...]
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