Creativity in pranks, viruses and retaliation The past week has been one of high hijinks and wacky pronouncements. April Fool’s day is a day when we can all tap into our creativity well and dig out some nifty tricks. Google tried out a silly Pokemon April Fool’s […]
Leaving Las Vegas: Keeping oneself Hydrated, Sane and Afloat in Cash Leaving Las Vegas with one’s sanity and wallet intact can be a hard proposition for many. I have been to Las Vegas a few times on both personal and business trips and I often leave wondering how […]
March and Mother Nature are Playing Tricks on Me Laguardia, Wrestlemania and Selena on my mind as winter draws to its final end The month of March has been winding down ever the more slowly. February went by in a flash, but March has been a bit of […]
Love Crime, Acts of Love, and wacky love bits: this week’s weird news It is almost April 1st –the grand day of mischievous April fool’s acts. It’s nice that April fool’s falls about six weeks after Valentines. Imagine if they fell on the same day. For many, they […]
Stepping in the Goop: singing the motherhood blues It seems every four months or so, there is a media storm surrounding some outlandish pronouncement about motherhood and who has it worse. Meaning, who is more harried, hurried, and worried. I am currently standing on a metro north platform […]
Taking names: Ghosts of perceived slights in the workplace Back on March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry stated for the world to eventually hear “give me liberty or give me death.” From 1775 onwards, those strong powerful words echo and carry an immense weight to this day. It captures the […]
Some wacky life-lessons for all ages from this past week’s weird news Being on the road three weeks straight meant that I could not keep up with my weekly wacky news column. However, the world didn’t bother to pause in its wacky tracks. We now have CNN news […]
Tossing pennies over the left shoulder into the Trevi Fountain and staving off nosebleeds Growing up in Puerto Rican Household, I had a funny relationship with pennies. Yes, pennies. See, if I found a penny on the sidewalk, I was to take that as a sign of good […]
On this international day of happiness let’s let a boy be a “brony” When I was a child, I didn’t have many dolls. As a matter of fact, I had one rubber doll that I named sleepy and whose hands I bit off. Once in elementary school, I […]
There is Something about Mary in the Deep South: My Alternate Persona My mom’s favorite holiday was April Fool’s Day. She loved to pull pranks and she would go all out on the first of April every year. She would take rotten steak and place under the couch […]