Having admitted that I spend inordinate amounts of time at the supermarket, I should also tell you that for some reason while shopping, elderly customers always seem to want to talk to me.
“It’s strange for there not to be doughnuts on a Saturday, is it not?”…harped one white-haired, but beautiful woman recently. I think I suggested she buy a cake instead. Although the doughnut line seemed poetic, somehow.
I can always tell what time of day it is by the increase of older customers in the store: Sunday, church is out…it must be 1:00pm.
Immediately after my encounter with my new friend, …read more

It will probably be a while (read, never) before my colleagues at b5media.com allow me to author a blog, entitled, “married without children”…but I thought I would share some insight here anyway.
If you are marooned out in the suburbs–and you don’t have children, it can sometimes be like living in Superman’s “Bizaar-O” world, where everything is the opposite of what it really is.
Once again, I take you to my local “gi-NOUR-mo” store…the supermarket: Have you seen the size of milk and juice containers? They’re huge–why is that? And 16 pork chops in one package? Why, is …read more

Call me crazy, but I love the supermarket. Since I was a kid, the appearance of a new product or new packaging–or even advertising for that new product–has fascinated me. This being the American Independence Day weekend, I found myself in our local giNOURmous store quite a bit.

There are some products which have been “improved” by crack research and development folks that have been designed to do nothing but trick and lull the consumer into purchase mode, and nothing else. And PC green cleaning products do not clean.
Here is my current list, to which you are more …read more

If you are like me, you might consider saying something if you saw a parent hit a child, or if you saw a dog locked in a car, with the windows closed. But rarely does anyone ask this question: Would you say something if you saw a child hit a parent? You woldn’t dare, correct?
Recently, I witnessed a young mother and her two young children in the parking lot of a large supermarket with, with what looked like, a two year old boy in their cart and, a 5 year old girl walking beside them.
Suddenly, the five year old pushed …read more