The Funk Before Christmas
The Funk Before Christmas © 2019, MJ Ostrander When the calendar says it’s December, I get the sensation that time can compress or expand itself. The clock moves differently for…
Dead Mall
Dead Mall By David Glenn Cox They came upon us suddenly, shopping centers enclosed from the weather. Like Las Vegas hotels each new one to be bigger and better with…
The Trouble in the Haystack
The Trouble In The Haystack © 2019, MJ Ostrander I don’t job hunt on weekends. No twenty-four seven thrills for me. There’s no point in that level of masochism, nothing…
You Cannot Have a Criminal President!
When Richard Nixon was impeached, it was clear to me, Nixon was guilty of being involved in the Watergate cover up. That guilt meant that he could no longer remain…
We Poke Along
We Poke Along In May of 1935, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7034, establishing the Works Projects Administration. The WPA replaced the Federal Emergency Relief Agency. You see, they didn’t…
The Needle in The Haystack
(Job Hunting for Boomers 101) ©2019, MJ Ostrander It’s seven in the morning on a Monday in December. I fill my mug with Folger’s and pause to gaze out the…
Truth or Consequences
It almost seems like a dream, if you wrote it you couldn’t sell it. It has that aura of “Seven Days in May,” meets the Keystone cops only with Donald…
Ten Years!
Ten Years! By David Glenn Cox “Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home–but not for…
