Where to begin? As it has been said, it is best, I suppose, to start at the beginning...There is a reason we won't go back in the closet. As with any other human being on this planet, we are human beings, first and foremost. We have hopes and dreams, fears and failings, desires, ambitions, happy thoughts and sad, and we have lives. We are brothers and sisters; we are mothers and fathers; we are sons and daughters; we are grandsons and granddaughters; we love and are loved. We eat, drink, laug... Read Full Story

Near the Beginning: The Grass is Certainly Greener...More of Near the Beginning.Other original comics include the short-lived Something Like That... comic series....http://feeds.feedburner.com/LifeOtherwise Read Full Story

I nursed it, fed it, watched it grow in pain and misery. Like the dark child it was, I groomed it for evil, raised it for a purpose, loved it in its darkness and pure maliciousness. Unlike most dark children, however, I did not keep this one secret. I mounted it on a pedestal framed in black roses, shouted from the interior of my office at work, "Your time is coming!" Announcements followed on social websites, something wicked was to be born, destruction and misery were to be its children jus... Read Full Story

One of the things that comes up a lot in conversations with some Christians and other religiously-inclined individuals is their appeal to a higher power--i.e., morality must be absolute, and to be so it had to have come from a higher power--as if we, as thinking, conscience humans are incapable of deciding for ourselves what "good" and "bad" should, could, or would mean as we strive and struggle to create social groups in which we can live in harmony and propagate the species...In one such co... Read Full Story

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1. Make sure you have all the pieces you need before it gets to 20 degrees F. outside on average.a. Attaching the handle to the coal stove. It helps greatly if last year, your husband didn't break the handle into three separate pieces out of frustration due to a dying fire. New handles can be purchased at Home Depot, only costing you $10 for gas, 1.5 hours of time, and $1.23 for the handle itself.b. Attaching the handle assembly. It helps greatly if, before you ran all the way to Home Depot, ... Read Full Story

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One wonders what the qualifier is for being a racist then?But apparently, Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish in Louisianna, has "piles and piles of black friends."Perhaps he uses them for kindling?He goes on to say, "There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage," Bardwell said. "I think those children suffer and I won't help put them through it."Has this man heard of President Obama? Mariah Carey?This may be a case of "prjection" on Bardwel... Read Full Story

Mom: Well, when did you see it last?Me: (shrug) I dunno... (shuffle my feet, stare at the ground)Mom: Did you have it at lunch time?Me: Yeeeeess....Mom: And then what did you do with it?Me: I dunno... (more shuffling...)Mom: Did you ask your teacher if it had been turned in to the lost and found?Me: Yeeeeess....Mom: I don't know what I'm going to do with you...Lunch boxes, coats, gloves, scarves, hats... I still lose these things, a little too regularly for my ease of mind... I still haven't ... Read Full Story

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