Family Picnic – Don’t Bring the Nuts
Ah, summer: A time for taking the family to the park, or the lake, for a quality time picnic gathering. As an adventurer of the great outdoors, I understand what mishaps may [...]
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Posts by Kim Burke
A Curve in the Road
Michael drove from work anxious to get home to his wife, eat dinner and relax. It had been a grueling day full of demands, a twenty-page report due by noon, which would have [...]
Why Santa Claus is a Thievin’ Bastard
Have you been good this year? Have you been bad? When it comes to children does it really matter? Santa Claus is coming to town! Oh how the little ones run around praising [...]
The Secondary Misfit Association
Remember when we were in our teens? We weren’t young anymore but we weren’t grown up, either. It seems I’m hitting my second youth. Or, am I actually crossing [...]
The Circle Goes Round
Kate stood alone in the kitchen making a cold drink so she could then settle into her favorite chair to read and relax. Lately, Kate’s life had been quite hectic with work, [...]
Happy HalloWhine!
Wherever you shop for a Halloween costume, you will more than likely always find a princess, a witch, a pumpkin, a ghost and selected portions of Anna Nicole Smith among the [...]
What’s for Dinner, Hon?
This is a question I would like to ask for a change. For twenty years, that is 7300 days, I have been cooking and aside from washing the dishes and the laundry, it’s the [...]
Divorce – American Style
There is a particular process some women have endured, which brings out the worst frazzled state of being she can encounter and cuts into the very fiber of her existence at [...]
A Generation Grows Up: A Culture Grows Old
Growing up as a child of the seventies was a breeze. Just ask David Crosby. What blows my mind was what we bought into. From a peanut farmer for a president to bell-bottom [...]
Why Do Women Get Frazzled?
I was asked this question the other day and thought the answer needed had to do with specific reasons such as: Having to be two places at the same time, forgetting to take [...]