Ordinary Mer

The Curse of Resolutions

I like to think of myself as a fairly generous person, willing to share and accommodate. I don’t think I’m particularly selfish and I understand that it’s not all about me. But I do like my routines and I have the somewhat dubious habit of getting attached to my routines, to the point that it [...]

Can We Really?

Three years ago, around 11pm Eastern time, the news went out around the world that Barack Obama had won the 2008 U.S. Presidential election and had become the first African-American president of this country. Three years later… Obama is still president, gearing up for his 2012 re-election campaign – a campaign that might have seemed [...]

The Whole Gamut

Last week sucked. This week was better, but only marginally. Over the course of almost two weeks, I’m pretty sure I’ve experienced the entire range of human emotion and, quite frankly, I’m exhausted. We all, of course, feel any number of feelings on any given day, depending on circumstances and situations. The whole “life is [...]

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