Seems kinda quaint, doesn’t it? Once upon a time, a bunch of folks tossed boxes of tea into Boston Harbor, complaining they were paying taxes without being properly represented by government. Now it’s about 250 years later, and let’s be honest. Is there ANY taxpayer here who is happy about how they are being represented? … Read more
This blog addresses a feeling that most St. Louis homeowners know well: the guilt of an ignored deck. Between the heat, humidity, and a thousand other priorities, deck maintenance keeps getting pushed back. Fix St. Louis offers practical solutions to make your deck more enjoyable and easier to maintain, covering everything from ceiling fans and … Read more
Doesn’t it seem like the word of the month is “liberation”? You see people on the news saying they’re been liberated here, and liberated there. Dancing in streets, waving flags. It all sounds like great fun until you think about how much they must have suffered to be that happy afterwards. Now, your humble correspondent … Read more
At a time our country is more divided than ever, your humble correspondent is grateful to be working on problems on which everyone can agree. I believe we can all agree that glass window panes that are cracked are not as good as those that aren’t. Doors that make that clicking sound when they are … Read more
While driving between subdivisions the other day, I found myself reading the billboards. And it struck me – why are there so many billboards for LAWYERS? As your humble correspondent, I acknowledge there’s a lot of things I don’t understand. But I do understand that restaurants buy billboards because a lot of drivers are trying … Read more
OK, so maybe that fly got in when a door was opened, or it was resting on your sleeve when you entered the house. And lord knows why there’s a miniscule ant crawling on that piece of paper you’re reading. You try to ignore these tiny creatures, and do everything you can to avoid thinking … Read more
Suddenly there’s all this news that we need to remove everything from our foods that isn’t natural. They say we shouldn’t be eating anything processed, artificial, or synthetic, and ESPECIALLY foods that contain PETROLEUM. I have to admit, your humble correspondent must have been living in a cave all this time, because I never imagined … Read more
The lyrics to the Beatles song “Here Comes the Sun” never feel quite right to me. Their less-than-enthusiastic review of the coming of the Sun as being just “ALRIGHT” doesn’t seem to do the Sun justice. “Awesome” is more like it, as our fellow St Louisans seem to understand in the run-up to the upcoming … Read more
You might want to check me on this because your humble correspondent gets most of his news from TV talk shows playing in the background, with the sound muffled by the toilet or cabinet my head is poked into. But I’ve been picking-up that gym club memberships as New Year’s resolutions may now be OUT. … Read more