Author Archives: Jack

To all the Supermarkets and big commercial stores that operate ‘Self Check-outs’……. You are heading towards almost exclusively self-checkout now. Today I went shopping at one such store and the lady checking receipts at the exit was stopping everyone. I didn’t choose to participate in that nonsense, I had already filled my cart, emptied my […]

“I spotted a police officer across the street from our house watching for speeders. Initially two little boys who looked to be about 10 years old sat on a curb eyeing the officer and his motorcycle closely. Once they gathered the courage to approach him, he talked with them for a couple minutes and showed […]

Sometimes I wish the last time would come with a warning. Like a car alarm, maybe. Or something more subtle—like the chirp of a smoke detector when the battery runs low. Because so often as mothers, we don’t know the last time is the last…until its absence stops us in our tracks. When was the […]