While the majority of Americans are poised to allow a ridiculous notion of an obese elf into their homes, I am preheating my oven … fully prepared to cook any intruders and feed them to my cats. Read more

I floated to the surface of an almost frozen lake this morning and shouted to everyone that could hear … “I will survive.” The sound of Gloria Gaynor’s whiney voice played out the familiar tune in the background. Read more

I posted a link to this video last year, but I am posting it again for the unfortunate souls that missed it the first time around. This is an awesome concept for a horror film. I only wish that I had thought of it first!

In celebration of Columbus Day, I would like to direct you to a blog entry I wrote last year in honor of this psuedo holiday.

While the rest of you are out there enjoying your Monday off from work, I will be happy to know that I have absolutely no part in the celebration of this horrible holiday.

Columbus Day is a stupid, barbaric holiday …

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Decked in holiday cheer …

My grandmother has lost touch with reality. She is trapped in another decade that continues inside her head. It is part of the disease … Alzheimer’s.

When I pulled up to her house Sunday, I was not surprised to see a Jack ‘O’ Lantern staring back at me from her window. Read more

Valentine’s Day is the Hallmark holiday that has been shoved down our throats since grade school. Could this be as bad as getting McDonald’s to sponsor report cards?

Valentines of all shapes and sizes circulate the classrooms as teachers force students to celebrate the holiday. Each student has an elaborately decorated valentine box that he or she creates from an ordinary shoe box, milk carton or whatever other creative idea the teacher happens to have at that particular moment.

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What will you change about your life this year?

Each year we all vow to change something about our lives or ourselves. Some of us choose to go on a diet and lose that last 10 pounds. Others decide it is time to pay off debt or find a better paying job.

Some people may view the new year as a time to change. I see it as a way for us to keep holding off making change. We do not need an event or a day to make ourselves better. This should be happening every day of our lives. If we depend on a single day to make a change in our lives, then we will never change.

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A strange Christmas request got me thinking about how quickly people grow apart. I was asked to set up a meeting between my brother and the associate producer for one of his favorite shows.

“Producer guy” and I went to college together. We were good friends and spent many hours talking, sharing and opening up to each other.

After college, he got a job in California and we occasionally met up in Huntsville when he returned for the holidays. Eventually, I moved on to Florida. All communication stopped.

Blast from the past …

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The holidays have crept into my apartment. Fake plastic pine needles are neatly sprinkled throughout my living quarters as my tree sparkles with Christmas cheer.

All talk and no action …

As I set my pumpkin on the porch in early October, I was already dreaming of Santa and his eight tiny reindeer. I vow every year to have my tree up before Thanksgiving. And, just like clock work, my laziness kicks in and nothing happens. This year was not the exception. My tree did not make its way up until Nov. 25.

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The scent of holly is in the air …

The warm October air is quickly being sucked through a vacuum as the cool breeze of November rolls into town. Barely into the season, I watch as an elderly woman adds ornaments to a plastic tree already heavily covered in gold and silver tinsel.

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