Superhero Bitter Suffering

We all go through a certain amount of suffering in our lives. Some more severe than others that is for sure. I know everytime I decide to complain, I get an earful from everyone about how there are starving kids in Africa and many people have suffered way more than I have in just about … Continue reading Superhero Bitter Suffering

What it feels like to come home from Vacation Friday Giftures

I'm back, Bitters, and more bitter than ever.  Vacation has a way of centering my bitterness and helping me focus even more on it, since I'm not really busy doing work.  Eventually, despite many of your desperate inner pleas for me to never come back and perpetually keep my bitterness to myself, all things come … Continue reading What it feels like to come home from Vacation Friday Giftures

In case you missed it…because you were busy looking at old letters

There is nothing like looking back at old letters, pictures and newsletters and realizing how bad your hair looked, how terrible your grammar was, and how amazingly in love you were with someone that didn't even know who you were.  We were doing a little spring cleaning yesterday and I was cleaning out an old … Continue reading In case you missed it…because you were busy looking at old letters

Bitter Problems

It's a perfect day outside.  The sun is shining, traffic is light, birds are chirping, welcoming the season of spring gently.  A hard month end is over, so work will be light, co-workers will be happy and customers in a good mood.  Maybe I can even go outside for lunch, get a little sun and … Continue reading Bitter Problems

Cluster luck Friday Giftures

My life is a running disaster.  Not in the traditional sense of lightning bolts coming down from the sky, hurricanes lifting my house all the way to Oz, or Spokane, floods overflowing the water table in my basement, or molten lava coming down from an angry volcano.  It's more like a light bulb goes out … Continue reading Cluster luck Friday Giftures

Bitterness for Dummies

Take a seat everyone, class is about to begin at the B.I.T.T.E.R. School of Bitterness,  Bitterness for Dummies class.  I realize that there are a lot of newcomers to WordPress, because it is January and that is the time to start a new blog "for one of your resolutions".  I imagine most of your blogs will be abandoned in … Continue reading Bitterness for Dummies