Category: Millennials

Get Some Facetime

Posted in California, cell phones, high school, humor, memoir, Millennials, relationships, school, school shooting, student march, vote, waiting room2 Comments

As I stepped into the waiting room at my chiropractor’s office, three women and one guy were looking down at their cell phones, sitting in a symmetrical pattern amongst the u-shaped chairs. Feeling giddy from my fifty-five minute massage I said,” Well, this looks like a blog post to me! You’re all on your phones!”… Continue reading Get Some Facetime

The Friend Date

Posted in best, California, dancing, firsts, friends, house party, humor, memoir, Millennials, mom, music, parking lot, relationships, sisterLeave a comment

He said he had a girlfriend but that she didn’t like to dance. Here he was, out dancing again. He loved to talk up a good game with the ladies, but would he ever act on it? He’d been with the same woman for over twenty years. He had insisted that I take his phone… Continue reading The Friend Date

Jeff Bezos Rules the World

Posted in Amazon, best, books, business, California, humor, internet, memoir, Millennials, postal service, relationships, retail, shop owner, worst, writersLeave a comment

Macy’s, Sears, J. Crew, Radio Shack, J.C. Penney, Kmart, Payless Shoe Source, Toys R Us, closed or closing stores in 2018. Borders, Barnes and Noble, and indie bookstores everywhere are closing. Mom and Pop shops are no more. What Ebay and Etsy did to antique stores, Amazon is doing to all the rest of the… Continue reading Jeff Bezos Rules the World

It’s Up to You, Millennials

Posted in assault weapons, children, congress, Florida, house of representatives, March for our lives, memoir, Millennials, NRA, politics, relationships, school shooting, student march, teacher, teaching, vote, worstLeave a comment

The shooting at the Parkland, Florida high school is more rotten news you don’t want to think about. But it happened, and those kids are pissed. They lost 14 friends, two coaches, and a young teacher who was engaged to be married. A disgruntled nineteen year old with an assault weapon took them out in… Continue reading It’s Up to You, Millennials