I Believe They Need to Check Themselves
When you believe in things
That you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain’t the way
- Stevie Wonder, “Superstition”
Psychologists have sought answers for some time as to why people believe in superstitious things and paranormal phenomenon. According to University of Helsinki psychologists Kia Aarnio and Marjaana Lindeman [...]
Quick and Easy How-To for Halloween
This past weekend, I sat down at the dining room table with my children to decorate a Jack O’ Lantern for Halloween. They’re a bit too young to handle the sharp carving implements, but I had them take the pumpkin innards out and draw designs. [...]
Stirring Up Media Controversy Over a Sure HOFer
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball club showed signs of life against the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, which is truly saying something because the shock of the previous two games they threw away would [...]
She Says She’s a Real Vampire
This Halloween, some people will be dressing up as vampires. Whether they’re inspired by “Twilight,” “True Blood” or one of the myriad vampiric fables, otherworldly skin tone, eyes and the archetypal fangs will be dripping for good times that night. Some will go to great [...]
Woman didn’t keep promise to buy clothes
A word to the wise, people: If you’re ever out shopping and someone marches into the store and says she’ll pay for $500 worth of merchandise for everyone, remember that sometimes people lie. Furthermore, if this happens to you, please exercise further common sense [...]
Cakes gone wrong provide popular pastime
It’s fun to watch the way the print world and the Internet feed into each other. Most of the time, I read stories about how newspapers are shutting down and books will someday be obsolete because of the Internet. However, Cake Wrecks is an example [...]
No, But They Can Pay to Fix Windshields
OK, so this is a story about something called quick payday loans. My brother and I had some fun with a neighbor’s cat, and the weird dude owner threw a rock that broke our car window, and dad needed the extra cash to [...]
Cast Aside Money Problems Like Withered Hulks
Quick personal loans helped my anger management via a change in wardrobe. Not your average, everyday happening, is it?
An Emerald Green Day in the Park
I was jogging in the park last week when I was accosted by a strange, foul-smelling man. As this was [...]
Locked in the Past, Cash Strapped in the Present
Not long ago, I needed a quick payday loan to help me out of a jam. Thankfully, my cell phone gets reception underground. Otherwise, I’d still be aging with the wine thanks to the cobwebs in my wallet.
There’s a story to this, [...]
Time to team up
Last night on Lifetime’s biggest moneymaker, “Project Runway,” season 6 episode 7 featured another team challenge. Usually, on “Project Runway” there are a few designers who hate team challenges. However, this season is special. Everyone hates team challenges. Every last one of them.
Epperson says he is cool [...]
‘Wishful Drinking’ book, one-woman show
Carrie Fisher, more commonly referred to as Princess Leia, appeared on “Today” this morning to talk about “Wishful Drinking.” The piece is both a book and a one-woman Broadway show.
You can buy the book “Wishful Drinking” for about $10 for the paperback or $18 for the [...]
You CAN be prepared for a short-term financial emergency
Things can happen to anybody at any time. That will throw their budget, regardless of how stable, off the course. Even for those of us who keep our checkbooks balanced to the penny and anticipate future expenses a couple of paydays in advance, it all [...]
Apostrophes, colons and dashes, oh my!
National Punctuation Day is a holiday like no other. Unlike most holidays that are invented seemingly out of the blue, National Punctuation Day wasn’t created as a business promotion.
It’s sort of like Talk Like a Pirate Day. It doesn’t make anybody any money. It doesn’t [...]
It’s time to make hay
Has something happened in your life that has made you realize that you’re probably not going to be able to make ends meet this month, though you’re really fretting because something such as a poor credit history has limited or even eliminated most of your options? [...]
Payday Cash Advances: a cure for insomnia?
We can all agree that no matter how diligently you work to keep your finances in a good place, something always is going to come along that puts it in check. Give yourself the power to attack this opponent head on with payday cash [...]
What I wouldn’t give to have it in my mouth
I may need a loan till payday. Why? Because I have to stock up on butter and buy a deep fryer. I want to feel those slick gifts glide down my tongue. I want to embrace it in my mouth until [...]
A world without comedy is what she wants, eh?
Then Sunda Croonquist’s mother-in-law can have it. If we’ve reached the point where we can no longer poke fun at each other, then society has reached the point where its trappings are no longer of interest for me anymore. If nobody can [...]
You work hard to bring home the bacon but you live on chicken feed
The rent is due
Your landlord doesn’t care why you’re down and out. He makes a bundle, but he won’t pay a penny for your thoughts. In his eyes you’re a deadbeat and he wants cold [...]
Get in the swing of things
We all know that it’s important to have the right tool for the job. If you need a flashlight to light the way in dark places, you want one you can rely upon. If you’re in a different kind of dark place, you may need [...]