Category Archives: Achtung

A Victim of Stealing & Lying

Last week I posted on Twitter and Facebook:  “Some people forget that stealing doesn’t just involve breaking and entering. There are other shades of stealing, involving intellectual property or plagiarism. But the real crime is when a friend or someone you hold in high regards commits this crime… And you...
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Blinded By Beauty

Anyone following me on twitter will catch my frequent tweets about working on my dissertation at various coffee shops. Coffee shops are my sanctuary and library.   It’s also a place where you can meet some pretty cool and interesting people.  At one coffee shop I frequent, I have become friends...
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Confessions of a Junky

Like everyone I have an embarrassing and guilty pleasure.  I’m not proud of it, but if there is an addiction I must live with, I guess I can resign myself to this:  The Bachelor.  I don’t watch a lot of television, but you can bet every Monday between 8 and...
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>Merry Christmas vs Happy Holidays

> Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.  The good you do for others is good you do yourself… ~Norman Wesley Brooks, “Let Every Day Be Christmas,” 1976...
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