Married Filing Jointly

Married Filing Jointly Thanks to a Vegas chapel and H&R Block , Joe and I have new pet names, or insults, depending on circumstance and inflection.

If It Ain't One Thing It's Your Mother

If It Ain't One Thing It's Your Mother Today is my mom's birthday! I called her first thing this morning to wish her a happy day. Because it's a Saturday, Louie doesn't have to work, so she has the whole day planned. But first, out to breakfast, so she had to get off the phone. We set a time to talk next week. When we do I'll ask how today's plan turned out. There is always a story.

Key Change

Key Change There should be a name for the phenom where, every couple of years, you marvel at how many mystery keys you carry around. Where do all these mystery keys come from? You toss old, obsolete keys every Key Purge. You toss the  laundry room key from two apartments ago. You toss the key to a freight elevator located in a building that's been demolished. You toss what might be a key to a gym locker, or it might be for the mailbox from the buildi…

THE PICKLE: Volume 1, Issue 3

THE PICKLE: Volume 1, Issue 3 The first fifty days of the new administration have ushered in an emotionally supercharged period in modern America. People in red states and blue states are in states of confusion, state experts state.  "This is a highly unusual situation," says Dr. Harry Chopin Savage. Savage is an industry leader in applied data science. Dr. Savage is the author of "Big Data and Urban Civilization," currently touring colleges and universit…