Clean Up In Aisle Five

I find the psychodemographics of grocery shopping kind of amusing, and maybe even a little bit insightful. I mean, who among us hasn’t snuck a look at another patron’s cart, or rendered some sort of judgement in the check-out aisle? In a way, one’s purchases are deeply revealing stuff. A brand says a lot about…

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Swinging The World By The Tail

That’s me in Miss Opalinski’s fourth grade class. I liked stuffed animals, model airplanes, T-ball, Beverly Cleary books, and Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” I spent the bulk of my time roller skating, drawing, singing “The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow,” cleaning my room, and watching “3-2-1 Contact.” T-ball notwithstanding, it occurs…

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