This is an unscheduled post. The letter copied below from Carolyn Hax’s column for today  just blew me away, as pertinent to current...

(Originally posted 08/25/12 at Trojan Horse Productions .  Reblogged 09/13/18 .) 06/25/12 I had to buy another flash drive. I was...

(Originally posted 12/26/12 at Trojan Horse Productions .  Reblogged 09/06/18 .) A week ago today I had a highly successful interview at...

Positions applied to in April 2014: Administrative Secretary – Johns Hopkins University – Req. No. 60760 Secretary II – Salvation Army –...

This is the third of three posts about entitlement: 04/19 – “Entitlement(s): Attitude and policy” 04/26 – “How I became homeless” Today...

(Originally posted 02/23/13 at Trojan Horse Productions .  Reblogged 08/23/18 .) Colo. teen heard on 911 call saying he killed girl...

Bookmarks: Supreme Court to decide what constitutes pomegranate juice  •  Free speech means freedom to lie  •  “I’m not changing my...

This is the second of three posts about entitlement: 04/19 – “Entitlement(s): Attitude and policy” Today – “How I became homeless”...

“ How I became homeless ” is a long post that may be difficult to read at one sitting. The links here below can help. Clicking on any...

(Originally published 07/21/12 at Trojan Horse Productions .  Reblogged 08/09/18 .) The pigeons . Years ago, when I had an office job...

Bookmarks: Who pays for Medicare?  •  Loonies don’t need guns  • Parental involvement in education • Struggles of the long-term...

This is the first of three posts about entitlement: Today – “Entitlement(s): Attitude and policy” 04/26 – “How I became homeless” ...

I normally only publish on Mondays (comments on the news), Wednesdays (recycling old posts) and Saturdays (substantial new pieces).  A...

… can make a hard situation easy, or make an easy situation hard. To enter the shelter, you walk across this parking lot to an iron gate,...

Bookmarks: A gun control hypocrite   •  “Enhanced interrogation”  •  Bail reform measure moves forward  •  Cleaning up McDonald’s  • ...

(Originally posted 2012-07-26 at Trojan Horse Productions .  Reblogged  2018-06-14 .) How Swearing at Work Could Ruin Your @#*! Career...

Sunday 2014-03-30.  I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that I submitted no applications in March.  I have no excuse, but...

Prayer for myself often takes the form of imagining myself climbing up a ladder out of a pit, the pit being my current circumstances of...

Anticipating November, Democrats act desperately Kathleen Parker says Democrats are pushing the minimum wage increase in a “desperate”...

(Originally posted 06/02/12 at Trojan Horse Productions .  Reblogged 05/24/18 .) Friday 06/01/12 we were working on the assembly line,...