The hardest question isn't what the title has to do with this post. That's easy. The song is about a man who takes out a classified ad about things he loves in the hope of having an affair. *Spoiler alert* - He attracts his own wife. Anyway the connection is I'm writing about details that… Continue reading The Piña Colada Song
Month: October 2014
Seize the Day
Carolyn Arends's "Seize the Day" has been my anthem since my days traveling through the Midwest for my first job out of college. As I wrote in my post last week, I already try to live like my days are numbered. Because they are; some will live to 100 and some will die tomorrow. Or today.… Continue reading Seize the Day
Live Like You Were Dying
Next week I'm scheduled for Nadine Brandes's blog hop about what I'd do if I only have one year to live. Spoiler alert - not much. A little over three years ago, the year I celebrated 20 years of liberation from the dystopia of high school, I sort of had a midlife crisis. Thankfully it… Continue reading Live Like You Were Dying
It’s The End of the World
I love dystopian fiction. The first dystopian novel I read was probably Atlas Shrugged when I was fourteen. Yes, I was one of those bookish teens and there's a quote about us. Atlas Shrugged isn't necessarily categorized as dystopian. It doesn't follow the typical format of a "have not" escaping an prestige society. However, it… Continue reading It’s The End of the World
Gretchen E K Engel 