You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy! Waking up to a silent house on Christmas. As the kids got older, they began to show less enthusiasm for rushing down the stairs. There’s something about teenagers and sleep that makes me think Snow White wasn’t the only one to bite into the poisoned apple. […]
You know what’s crazy? I”ll tell you what’s crazy™ The Supermarket Superbowl. Bigger than the 4th of July? Bigger than Thanksgiving? When it comes to shopping, it’s these two holidays combined. It’s Christmas Eve Day. Why? Because the store is closed on Christmas day. Everything is closed on Christmas day. Trust me, I checked. I called […]
Twas the Night before Christmas and all cross the land every creature is stirring all taking a stand protesters are angry laying down in the streets I can’t breathe black lives matter set to a choreographed beat rocks through the window flames through the roof protesters chanting hands up don’t shoot 2 […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ The execution of two New York Police Officers. I’m watching the press conference Saturday and I’m appalled. The headline is sickening. TWO NYPD OFFICERS EXECUTED “They were targeted for their uniforms” The NYPD commissioner will say. They were assigned to a housing authority where there had […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. Blue lights in your rear view. Man it’s scary. It’s dark and you’re fiddling around with the radio and then all of a sudden: Woooooooooo! You get lit up. Blue and white spinning lights, painting the darkness. It’s blinding. It’s a rolling seizure. It’s a visual […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ Saying Goodbye forever. I said goodbye to a friend today. It was a final goodbye. a forever good-bye. The kind of good-bye that is so loud the silence is deafening. This was a good friend, a special friend, the best kind of friend. This was the […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. Pulling over a motorist so you can give him a toy. “There’s two kids in the back seat,” the rookie officer says, flipping on the wig wags. The siren of his cruiser begins to wail. He hangs a you turn, crossing over the double yellow like […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ Holiday Shopping. It should be a biblical experience filled with the good will and merriment of the season. It should be children on Santa’s lap and little elfs handing out candy canes as you park your car. It should be Moses inscribing your Christmas boxes with […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ A mother who steals with her child. Christmas Made Me Do It, she will tell me. I walk into her simple apartment and I am surrounded by tears and woe is me. I feel warmth, so I know she has heat. I see lights, so I […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™ “Hey little girl. Do you want some candy?” It sounds like a creepy bad joke from a 1960’s tv show. It sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit where the creeper is living in a van down by the river. But sometimes the worst joke is […]