• A Bullshit Mountain Christmas

    A Bullshit Mountain Christmas

    it’s over.  The proverbial, if not literal, ink is drying on our divorce as I type.  It’s time for us all to move on with our lives.

  • The hardest goodbye of all

    The hardest goodbye of all

    Two things prompted me to create this post tonight: a post on a blog that i follow HERE and a phone call I had with the Kid a short time ago.  He and  I spoke briefly tonight – he had a friend staying the night at his house.  He informed me…

  • the seeds of a revolution

    I’m not in the mood for New Year’s resolutions for 2014, I’m looking at starting a New Year’s Revolution.  I’m not interested in making little change to enhance my life.  I’m looking at making the massive modifications necessary to achieve the goals I have been setting for my life.Sadly  have…

  • coming clean

    coming clean

    As I type this tonight, I am in South Carolina, so that I can pick up The Kid tomorrow for his Christmas visit.  The Old Man and I made the drive down last night.  The weather was about as good as we could have possibly hoped for – especially given the time…

  • holiday blues

    holiday blues

    Christmas is a really intense time of year, ya know? They say that retailers do 40% of their annual during the 4 weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Think about it:  retailers stay open the other ELEVEN months of the year just to do a little more than half of their…

  • A Facebook hiatus

    A Facebook hiatus

     Like many, I too, am often fooled by the illusion that Facebook is socializing itself, rather than a means of socialization.

  • no longer holding my breath, but…

    no longer holding my breath, but…

    the proverbial finish line is, at long last, in sight.

  • to de-friend or not to de-friend

    to de-friend or not to de-friend

    In the Article “Science proves that you should un-friend your ex on Facebook”   George Dvorsky argues that maintaining a Facebook friendship with an ex only hinders the healing process.

  • 3 Reasons Divorce Is Harder On Men Than Women

    3 Reasons Divorce Is Harder On Men Than Women. I don’t think it’s fair to say – as a blanket generalization – that either gender has it harder during divorce than the other.  I honestly believe divorce, like all things in life, is like a case by case basis. the…

  • coming to terms

    The last 72 or so hours have been tumultuous.  I’ve been racking my brain over this divorce settlement – trying to sort out the terms I can live with; the terms that infuriate me to the point that I have no choice but to demand more from; the terms that…