Perhaps I see it more easily because I have a child.  Or perhaps I’ve just noticed it a little too much watching my own and others’ behavior.  It seems to me like there is less and less ability on the part of modern man to wait.
Some of it may be a natural outgrowth of how instantaneous [...]

Clearance!  Clearance!  Every store ad proclaims the holiday liquidation like a mantra.  Overstocked shelves must be cleared for Valentine’s Day and Easter (yes, already).  Christmas is sooooo yesterday, so please… take 50%, no 60%, better yet 75% off!  Surely you can’t resist buying something for 1/4 of the price!
Stop for a moment and consider.  Stores [...]

I know a lot of people hate New Year’s Resolutions with a passion.  I happen to like them.  It is a time when a large number of people the world over choose to look to the future with hope and dreams for themselves.  It is a time when wills are steeled and effort is made [...]

So, I’ve developed a theory that the half-arc of flu recovery is inversly proportional to the grace with which one dives into a box of Kleenex.  If that makes no sense to you, then I did an excellent job of using more than 20 words to say:  recovery bites.  But not as much as being [...]

So, I spent my wee vacation from blogging with knitting needles in hand taking my first stab at cabling.  I was wildly successful and quite proud of the pretty blue cabled hat that I gifted to my darling daughter.  She was blissed in her frothy ice-blue creation, so happy that she wore it to school [...]

So, I’m wandering through Craft Mecca (aka the Hobby Lobby crafting store), and what do I see amidst all of the harvest themed swag and decor?  Abundance, abundance, everywhere!  It’s really a catchword this year.
I was in my happy place (in a Craft store, shopping for yarn).  So naturally, my mind does what it does [...]

So, I’m driving in my car this afternoon and meandering my way along the strip when someone suffering from SPS (Small Penis Syndrome — I say that because it was a guy) pulls up next to me at the red light.
I’m bopping along to what’s on the radio — have no idea the name of [...]

I’ve had a rough couple of weeks, even with the positive events of winning writing contests and celebrating nearly three months of writing here on A Witch’s Word. And I’m here to tell you — it’ s okay.
One of the things that gets me hotter under the collar than just about anything is the idea [...]

When I was younger, I would watch soap operas with my grandmother.  There wasn’t anything else to do during a hot Louisiana summer day besides stay still and cool in the midafternoon heat spike.  We weren’t allowed to swim during that time of day — wouldn’t have wanted to anyway in that piss-warm pool water.  [...]

Talk about your lightning bolts out of the blue.  Or maybe I should say, talk about the fact that the coffee in the to-go cup is actually hot!
I was cleaning out my car the other day, muttering at myself for how crazy my schedule gets at times and how I end up just grabbing what [...]