Jul 31Member-onlyIf a Car Hits a Tree in the Forest…Will my dad find out? Of course, my Dad found out. He always found out everything I was up to, and he always gave me a chance to own up to it, relating the dirty deed to me in a manner designed to make me believe he really didn’t know who had done it. You know…Car Crash7 min read
Jul 28Member-onlyWhy Regular Household Chores Should Never Go on Your “To Do” List(This is why your list never gets finished!) Is your daily To-Do list a never-ending saga of things you have to do today, chores, work or school assignments and errands? You may be making more work for yourself. In my article about the simplest day planner known to humankind, I made a huge mistake in my “demo pictures”…Adhd4 min read
Jul 27Member-onlyWho Writes in Long Hand Anymore?!A call-out to paper and pen aficionados… Sometimes, ya gotta go old school. I lose writing access to my computers every Friday afternoon around 4 pm. That’s when my grandson comes for his weekly overnight with his Oma, and when the computers get used while he’s here, he’s calling the shots, and they don’t include my…Writing2 min read
Published in The Money Game·Jul 26Member-only4 Steps to a Wealthy LifeThey’re not fun, easy OR fast, but they ARE necessary. How do you define “wealth”? So many of us want a wealthy lifestyle, but don’t have the first notion of how to achieve it, because our idea of what “wealth” looks like is skewed. We watch celebrities jet-set through life…Money5 min read
Jul 25Member-onlyHarvesting Tomato Seeds to Grow Your Own CropHarvesting tomato seeds and planting by the slice I rarely buy tomatoes anymore, but when I do, I take a slice of one tomato and plant it in a small pot, then end up with a dozen or so tomato seedlings for the greenhouse and pots around the house and…Tomatoes3 min read
Jul 24Member-onlyAunt BlancheThis story was originally posted on the now defunct and embarrassingly broken “Late Bloomer Blog”, in August of 2008. Usually, it’s the oldest sibling that reigns supreme, but not so much in Blanche’s case. Aunt Blanche was my mother’s older sister. She was the firstborn — and she wasn’t very old before my grandmother realized she was a little, well, different. I suppose the proper…1920 S4 min read
Jul 21Member-onlyMr. Miner’s 2-Stroke Day PlannerNothing works if the “solve” overcomplicates everything. Having ADHD and the entire shit show that comes with that, I have spent literally decades, along with likely thousands of dollars trying expensive day planners that use different formats. They all practically guaranteed increased productivity, finished to-do lists, and no more searching for clean underwear in the morning. And…Adhd5 min read
Published in Badform·Jul 19Member-onlyThe BiKEEni Babing Suit SummerThe entire summer of 1972 was spent in fury. I spent the summer of my 6th year travelling with my older brother and my parents on the Great Lakes. …The Bad Vacation5 min read
Published in Badform·Jul 11Member-onlyStinky Chicken BluesIt only takes a week to smell like a stranger to yourself… Did you know that the one and only smell you rarely (if ever) notice is “your” house smell? You never notice it unless you’ve gone away from home for a while — like a week’s vacation, or summer camp when you're a kid — you never notice it until you…The Bad Smell4 min read
Jul 10Member-onlyThere Were Moments of Stupidity…A version of this story first appeared on the now devastatingly tangled mess that is/was The Late Bloomer Blog, back in January of 2009. In 1962, my father tried to kill the entire family. How’s that grab ya? The only reason I’m here to write about it is that everybody lived, and nobody called the cops. No, he wasn’t trying…Charcoal6 min read
