The Bucket

Some Thoughts on Life and Death

I will always think of her as the young girl who was an amazing gymnast. The one who studied Japanese and wrote me letters with purple ink and bubbly-girly letters.  She was my cousin, and she is gone now. Drug overdose. In life, I have heard the phrase,”You are your own worst enemy.”  Now, with […]

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BofA Bank of Attitude (You thought I mean Bank of America?)

Bank of America asked me to fill out a survey.  They suck.  And my survey reflects that, but I was very careful to mark the representative who assisted me very highly because they did the best they could with the lame tools made available by Bank of America.  You see, I’ve been paying on time

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Suggestions for Urban Dictionary: Dramer, Hollywaif

During the course of my day to day life, I sometimes squish words together to create new words that become part of my vocabulary.  Now, I am not saying I have invented these terms, but I did check the UrbanDictionary and these don’t seem to be out there…I think they should! Huzzah! HOLLYWAIF: Girls who

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A Little Easter

A friend of mine sent me a link to a sermon.  Generally, I don’t get all preachy with my views on religion and spirituality, but I figured…in my faith, Jesus died and ascended. This happened while the bunny went around delivering eggs, apparently. Anyway, this particular sermon dealt with some interesting issues that I thought

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Fort Hood, A Profile of One

I read this article by Steve Chapman, cautioning folks to not denounce the Muslim community because of extremists, and I think it bears repeating.  America has over 900 hate-based organizations.  One of the major categories includes “Christian-based” hate groups that cause violence at abortion clinics, harass non-white ethnicities, and tell gays and lesbians, “God has a

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