My sister is an amazing woman. A super or over achiever, if there ever was one. This year she asked each of us in the family, and close friends of our family, to come up with ten words to describe each of us. She then compiled all those adjectives and using different fonts and colors, personalized each of us a shirt, mug or pillow with those words. I'm sure it took her hours.

The end product was humbling. Sometimes we forget how we are perceived by our loved ones. This was...

[quote=cr52;32742761]I dropped off my docs on Wednesday

“In the 1980’s legal government policies were established with but one apparent objective: to enable the rich to grow even richer while the poor were pushed to ever- lower rungs on the economic ladder. The 1980s were a decade of shame.”

James A. Michener; This Noble Land, 1994
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Quiet and demure
socially, insecure
works under stress
gives them his best
turns out two hundred
and forty thousand paper trays
per day; but no bonus this year.

Last night I read through a ton of threads. My initial intention was to write a clever Christmas diddy, with rhyme and verse, mentioning some of you with whom I've interacted with. But the list kept growing.

So then I decided to go through and just write the names of everyone who had written something that touched me in some way. But the list kept growing.

That list is now up to 86 people and I started to feel that I was boxing myself in to a position where now...