"I hate to be the bearer of bad news," Janet told me this morning, "but the sink is still leaking." I looked under the...

There have been better days. The suspension problems on my car that I was almost certain would be a warranty repair are not a covered item...

If you ever want to take the pulse of today's millennials, just go to an REI sale. I stopped by the store's self named "bigge...

The mosquitoes are terrible this year. I must have been bitten a dozen times while we were walking the dogs this morning. Mosquitoes alway...

Sometimes I hate the Internet. For several days I've been having trouble connecting to some of my clients websites. My Internet Servic...

You can never ignore Murphy's Law when you hire a plumber. Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Somehow plumbing problems alway...

It has been unseasonably cold this month. When I wake up on a damp, grey day like today, it's easy to imagine that I'm still livin...

I'm convinced that waiting for service technicians must be one of the circles of hell in Dante's Inferno. No matter when you sched...

I find dealing with money very frustrating these days. People want to pay me less than they did ten or fifteen years ago, while the cost o...

I was listening to the TED Radio Hour on the way to the gym this afternoon and the topic was Abraham Maslow and his Hierarchy of Needs. Th...

Wouldn't it be nice if there was someone you could call who always had the answers you were looking for? I'm continually faced wit...

I returned like a prodigal son to my original Friday restaurant and was pleasantly surprised to see that they'd added several new item...

I knew today was going to be a problem. The HVAC guy wanted to come out at 8 AM to service the air conditioner. 8 AM is when the dogs norm...

The electricians came today. So, how many electricians does it take to change a light bulb? In the past, it has taken as many as three. To...

Today was Dash's day. Dot spends so much time at the vet that it's easy to forget that Dash has his own issues. We try to address ...

I hate feeling helpless. Dot continues to grow weaker and there is very little I can do at this point. I've tried everything I possibl...

My Mom has been gone so long now that many memories are starting to fade. When she was alive, the medical community wasn't very famili...