My Pen, Your Voice
S. . . apostrophe S. . . S apostrophe. . . ES apostrophe. . . HUH? Forming possessive plurals for single nouns ending in ‘S’ is a big pain. I’ll be the first one to state that because my last name ends in ‘s’. So if a book belongs to me, it’s “Carla Ives’s book.” [...]
They say that with great power comes great responsibility. Well, they said that to Spider-Man anyway. I think I have a new, more age-appropriate maxim: With advancing age comes big foot problems. I have always been a big girl, but this big girl always had skinny legs and feet. I never had a problem finding [...]
Happy Thanksgiving! You may be thinking that the title is a bit on the snarky side as we live in a land that glorifies youth. It’s not. I am thankful for getting old. Why? Because it sure beats the alternative! I was born on Thanksgiving Day. Not today’s date, mind you, but on Thursday at [...]
It’s Monday, so I thought I’d start off with a rant. Why? It’s the Monday after the last day of the month, for one thing. I was settling out the books for the month of September and discovered yet another one of those little things that just tick me off. You know how they say [...]
Today’s blog is going to be tiny but mighty! To quickly recap, we’ve been talking about retail jobs, fast food jobs, direct sales and a whole host of other ideas. As I reviewed the past articles about making holiday cash, something hit me. . . like a brick to the forehead, especially after a comment on yesterday’s [...]
We’ve been talking about ways to make some extra holiday cash. Let’s see. . . so far we’ve talked about retail jobs, fast food jobs and direct sales jobs. Let’s look at a few more. Waitressing. A lot of people don’t want fast food after a long, hard day of shopping. They want to go [...]
