Editorial

I am very fortunate to live close to work and that allows me to go home for lunch every day. It’s a great break that allows me to sit in peace and quiet with full control of the remote and the ability to watch whatever I want with no whining.
I came across the Jerry Springer show the other day, which I haven’t seen in a very long time. Yep, it was still as awful as ever. Two women fighting over a loser of a guy, and the crowd cheering them on.

I call it “junk news.” Like the junk mail we are all familiar with finding in our mailbox (both home and email), I’m finding tons of it on my TV and computer.
I don’t know exactly when it started, but I noticed recently that I was seeing more and more of the junk news and less and less of real news on the national news networks and home pages of web browsers like Yahoo.
The stuff I’m talking about used to be delegated to Hollywood gossip and sports shows, but now they dominate just about every audio/visual media out there.

Have you ever heard someone say, “I should write a book?” Perhaps you’ve said it yourself.
I believe everyone has a book in them.
As an author, people often approach me with the “everyone says I should write a book” line. They then proceed to either tell me their idea, which I always like to hear, or ask me how the publishing process works, which I find far less exciting to describe.
Writing a book is hard enough. Getting it published is even more challenging. You have to want it pretty badly.

It’s February and so far my resolution to get on top of the debit/diet is not going that well.
The editing my life part is still going pretty good and my house seems to be getting bigger now that I have less clutter, but I am having a harder time with the part about how and where I spend my money.
The goal is to have a plan and I am surprised at people in my age bracket who don’t have one. The real eye-opener is when you get those yearly Social Security statements showing just how poor you are going to be when you stop working.