My Textbook on the Economic Crisis

Cost $108

McDonald’s Christmas Blend- Starbucks Look Out

Give it a year.  There will be McD’s Christmas Blend alongside Big Mac Extra Value Meals.

Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee vs. Starbucks Christmas Blend

Dunkin Donuts has a nutty roll across the palate.  Christmas Blend has a fragrant stimulus to the senses. What is your preference?

Coffee Beans photo by Jon Sullivan

The 1970’s-Unleaded Was Premium

The 1970’s. A day when Unleaded was “premium,” and there was a great big seatbelt that harnessed the whole gang of kids across the middle of the pick-up’s bench seat.

One More Diet Coke ‘Til Quitting Time

One more chug. One more push of my carpel-tunnel for fifteen minutes. I’m outta here!

Opus photo by Jon Sullivan

Growing Up with Syar Concrete Trucks

Here I am at age 2 1/2 at my dad’s construction site. My babysitter, Janine, holds me up next to one of my first loves, a great big Syar concrete truck.

Photo by Lynda Fletcher

Cinnamon Toast I Love You So

A slice in the morning

buttery, crunchy

cinnamon sticks

turns to goo

and crumbles to the touch

on my fingers

on the steering wheel

cinnamon toast

I love you so

The Patented Grab-It (Where’s My Ti-Vo?)

The patented Grab-It can remove 4 inch deck screws and is the best twenty dollars you will ever put in your tool box. Whew, to have my Ti-Vo back!

Vanilla Nut Creme

Chewy

Gooey

Nutty

Good

Have another

I want to

Better Not, Should

Cool Ranch Doritos and Sunday Football

On Friday afternoon I stop by the Seven-Eleven and buy two bags of Cool Ranch Doritos-one for Saturday’s college games and one for Sunday’s pro line-up. I don’t disclose where the bags are hidden, as household snackers may get into my chips, especially my Sunday bag. You gotta have Dorito’s for the pro-games. Around eleven, I rip each bag out and try and make them last all day. Good luck. By noon my Dorito’s are gone. Still a lot of football left. The Sunday back usually doesn’t make it ’til Sunday and I make a Saturday night trip the the Seven-Eleven (usually for two bags).