Author: jackums

Paper Goods

Are you over run by paper goods? I seems like everytime you need paper products you buy a new stack and then those few unused ones linger. But you can’t throw out the handful. They are still good. What’s a hostess to do, used mixed paper goods the next time that holiday rolls around? Well, […]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Okay, Thanksgiving was yesterday. I don’t think I remember a time in my life without a table full of food and multiple tables of folks. It’s been a celebration for decades where the tables have been filled with both sides of my family as well as family friends. Yesterday, my dad came over for dinner. […]

Words Matter.

We just made it through a tough election cycle. And in some ways the insanity continues, but that’s not for this post. I never considered myself a particularly political person. I have always voted. Some years I even volunteer on campaigns but I have never been what I would call a fanatic. In 2008 I […]

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

This was a book full of juxtapositions. I felt aimless and without direction yet the passages flowed and helf my interest. This is not a predictable book where you know the end before you reach the middle. I felt both a sense of time past and futuristic unknowns. Whether or not you enjoy the book […]