After several months of me making a request, the choir director of my church finally let me sing solo. And to my surprise, we got the biggest offering ever! My singing was so bad, that they put an usher at each door and charged people to leave. (Well at least on that Sunday we exceeded [Continue]
Dear Blake, All of my grown children regularly come to my home unannounced and stay for extended periods of time. I love my kids, but I value my privacy. What’s worst is, they never pick up after themselves, they leave trash everywhere, and my house looks a disaster area within a day of their arrival. [Continue]
The first job I ever had, was working at McDonald’s. One day I made a hamburger that was so perfect, I broke into tears. My supervisor saw how emotional I was getting, approached me and said that it was no big deal. I responded by saying, “it’s my patty and I’ll cry if I want [Continue]
Dear Blake, I quit my job almost three years ago and I have been living in the streets. My friends and family are ashamed of me because I have made it clear to them I have no desire to ever work again. However, lately I have been feeling very empty because I feel I’m missing [Continue]
Dear Blake, I’m 19 years old and I have a lot of friends that don’t have a clue of what’s going on politically and in current events. Do you think the legal age to vote should be raised back to 21? Signed Irving, from Trenton, New Jersey * * * * * * * * [Continue]
I went on a date with a trapeze artist after the circus came to town when I used to live in Chicago a long time ago. She was attractive, athletic, and we really enjoyed each other’s company. Later that night, for fun she dared me to go into the lion’s cage and pet it while [Continue]
The dense thick wool on a wooly mammoth was once thought to be more than adequate to keep it warm while it existed during the Ice Age. Scientists are now rethinking that point of view, because a perfectly preserved frozen wooly mammoth has been found in northern Michigan that was holding in its trunk, some [Continue]
Dear Blake, I am at my wits end with my grandchildren. Every time they come over for a visit, they break something. It’s really frustrating, because when I tell my children to try to control them, they do nothing, and sometimes they even tell me that all young children are destructive and I’m making a [Continue]
Dear Blake, I’m a 22 year old single woman. I want to get married, but only to a wealthy man because I never want to punch a time clock. Besides I dropped out of high school, thus my employment opportunities are very limited. I think falling in love is extremely overrated, so I don’t need [Continue]
I was standing in line at a bank, when a man standing in front of me started bragging about the custom diamond studded Rolex watch he was wearing. Then he looked at my Timex and snickered. He told me that his watch costed him $45,000.00. I told him that I only paid $12.00 for mine, [Continue]
