Category: Rants

Sometimes I just don’t get it!

Ostriches … a rant in O

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I haven’t had a good ole fist shaking, spit spraying rant in a while, so feel I am about due. This particular rant brought on by something my sister said in her recent post, a chat convo I had with a friend yesterday, and the wonderful yet sadly neglected by me blogs reinventing the event horizon and THE […]

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I don't want to be WOWed.

When exactly did we start believing that bigger and fancier is always better? I had a little excursion to the mall today with my mother. That is always a traumatic experience for me (I am just not that into consumerism), but we planned on ending with a visit to The Cheesecake Factory, which sounded like it would make any general annoyance from […]

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Standing up

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I was raised Jewish. When I was younger, I was a member of a Zionist Youth organization called Young Judea. This was before I really looked at organized religion and found it was not for me. We frequently had weekend “retreats” to help us be indoctrinated into a way of thinking. I am not being judgmental by saying this. It is […]

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The invention of materialism (an ode to shiny things)

Og was wondering through the trees seeking out a  scrumptious yet easy to catch beastie for lunch. As he started to leap over a stream that dared to cross his path, a bright shiny object in the bottom of the stream caught is attention. Multitasking not being invented yet, Og forgot he was in the process of leaping […]

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