Sweet Talk

“For your Christmas present, the brothers and I want to take you and Dad to Sayulita, Mexico. And we want to pay for everything.” What?! My oldest stepson, Pat, had taken charge and took me by sweet surprise. He, Matt, and Rory wanted us all to return to Mexico for another family fishing trip. We[...]

Gollum gives me the heebie-jeebies. He’s disgustingly distorted, slimy, devious, whiny, and schizophrenic. And an image of US in our most self-absorbed moments. Gollum is a creepy little character from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, who came upon a  magic gold ring, fell under its spell, and changed from a once kind,[...]

Arf! Arf!  Meow-w-w . . . People of different personalities may as well be speaking different languages! Do you know or live with someone whose “personal dialect” is very different than yours? There are lots of “personality” tests out there and you may have taken one in school or for work.  The Myers-Briggs model is[...]