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mostly personal anecdotes where I sometimes try to be humorous

(maybe not always, Not everytime, but sometimes)

  • Dating in Your 50’s

    I’ve been at a complete loss when it comes to ideas for posts recently, and I finally reached out to a good friend. “What should I write about?” She immediately came back with, “dating in your 50’s.” While I have a ton to say on the matter in personal emails or over a margarita, I’ve…

  • Mosaic

    This past year I joined a Facebook group for spouses/partners who’ve lost a loved one to suicide. While I have this incredibly supportive network of family and friends who are always there for me, our loss is different. They lost a beloved son, a son-in-law, a brother, an uncle, or a friend. In a lot…

  • New Things: The Final Edition

    I have another post in mind, but I find I’m a bit stuck as I churn over the “hows” of what I want to post. I’ve poked it, prodded it, written it a dozen different ways in my head, and now I’m going to let it marinate a bit then maybe have another go at…

  • The Way I Was Raised: Idea Fairies

    Co-worker: Beth, did you plan a White Elephant Gift Exchange? Beth: No, I didn’t. However, if you’d like to plan one feel free to do so! Co-worker (actual quote from email): Couldn’t remember if we were doing it…maybe next year you can plan it 🙂 (The smiley face at the end is truly one of…

  • The Way I Was Raised: Accepting “No”

    It would be easy to dive into the importance of saying, “Thank You” to kick off the modern manners posts. I mean, Thanksgiving and Christmas are just around the corner, and it’s a great time to remind people to polish off their gratitude, but I hate easy. Instead, let’s talk about “no”. Thanks to so…

  • Thank You from The Jay Walkers

  • A November Promise?

    If you felt I was a bit pushy with my fundraising efforts for the Out of the Darkness walk here on The Big Blue Mess, well then we’re probably not friends on Facebook. This is not a bad thing. I hammered those guys – friends, family, former co-workers, improv classmates. If you once dared to…

  • The Way I Was Raised: An Idea!

    Introductory post to a new blog feature about manners in a modern age.

  • We’re Nearly There: The Importance of Community

    My grandfather died when I was 16 years old. I have no real memory of him – no endearing stories of “the time when Grandpa and I…” I’ve heard I once sat next to him on a piano bench, and that he was very sweet to me, his only grandchild at the time, while I…

  • September’s New Things

    That time I tried some more new things in September, and I gave my friends a reprieve from fundraising (almost).

  • I Won’t Be Silent

    Fundraiser: Support The Jay Walkers for the AFSP Out of the Darkness Walk

  • A Huge Favor

    Well guys, we’ve reached the point in our relationship where I feel comfortable asking you for a huge favor. I know, I know, you think we aren’t quite there yet in our relationship. You feel that this is a bit soon. I mean we barely know each other, and here I am springing this on…

  • I Love Tacos

    The time I declared my affection for tacos or the most recent time I embarrassed myself in public.

  • July & August

    I’m pretty sure no one but me is really invested in my attempt to try “new things each month,” but I feel obligated to report just the same. Prepare to be wowed, or maybe the descriptive word that means the exact opposite of “wowed.” Prepare to be… ehh… you do you. You may not need…

  • The Great Cookie Massacre of 2019

    A good friend, whom I think of as family, and I’m convinced thinks of me as the burden one endures after being overly kind to strangers (or possibly karmic punishment for something done in a past life – something he wish he could remember and desperately hoped was funny if he was forced to be…

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