Bigger or Better: Life outside of Texas

This post can go lots of different directions. I feel that to be politically correct, I need to acknowledge all of the directions. First, I could talk about the economic efficiency of dropping the penny from our currency. I, however, don't really want that to happen, since I once bought a pair of jeans at Nordstrom Rack for a penny (yes, totally not kidding. I saved the receipt) and a pair of dog boots for a penny at PetSmart. I think we should just make the penny with something that costs less (beats me what. trash?) Or continue to allow 1 cent increments in this electronic-money world. Then I could bring in the "Take a penny, Leave a penny" philosophy that lots of stores have. It's a great little encouragement for human kindness. Once, a guy at an airport gave me a penny and I wasn't even purchasing anything. I think it works because (as mentioned above), a penny is pretty much useless, but the gesture of giving money voluntarily is still nice [with the ca

is epic. I picked up The Little Prince when I was in elementary or middle school, because it looked like something age-appropriate for me: a story with pictures scattered throughout. Right? Clearly a children's book. Um, no. I mean, I read it. I understood all of the words and the pictures. A guy, who can't draw very well, meets a little prince of an asteroid. The little prince left the asteroid because his Rose--which he had watered and protected--told him he needed to be wiser, He meets several strange characters in his journeys, learns how to tame a fox, and is willingly bitten by a snake at the end of the story because the snake told him that he sends all individuals back to where they came from. But I thought it was a really lame story because the Rose that the Little Prince loves is NOT the most unique flower as she claims, the fox does NOT stay with the Prince, and in the end, the Little Prince dies. Why so much sadness?????? So when Melissa invited me to see