The Scammer’s Secret: Quiet Shame Today’s essay is something different. Just for this week, we are going to concentrate on helping everyone who follows up or reads our newsletters to avoid losing money or having their life savings stripped away to the dregs of the Earth: Phone Scammers. After Microsoft ruined the good old stationery days, we made… Read More »
Join Me in Wishing Darcy a Very Happy Birthday The year is 1997. Darcy is hanging around the early internet, running a place called Michigan^Tavern. It was a chat site disguised as a bar, run by the one and only Darcy. Seriously! This is back in the day of ICQ, PIRCH, and mIRC. Before we had modern apps… Read More »
The Ketchup Factory — Days Long Past When I was a boy, summer vacation from school started the first week in June and ended the first week of September. By the end of those three months, summer vacation seemed like it lasted forever. I became bored with it – summer was too long. I eagerly awaited autumn and… Read More »
Keep the Fire Burning He left the candle burning, just as she had asked him to do. Though it had been seven years since she went away, he would light a candle every evening at nightfall. Every night while he tried to sleep through his pain and his loneliness, the candle flickered silently, casting dancing shadows upon the… Read More »
Always In Between Imagine you are a wave on the ocean, and you’re born of the salt and the wind. As you are born, you see nothing but the blue of the sea and an endless journey before you. You are small and insignificant – there are mightier waves all around you. You are young and light, aqua… Read More »
Oh, Say Can You See? No Sale! All right, everyone, let’s talk about something that’s not happening this Fourth of July weekend. The 4th of July holiday is upon us, and for the first time in a decade, we are not having a 4th of July sale. We considered it, of course. But honestly, with all the… Read More »