Pluton with a View

Crazy Fortune 4: The Dallas Experience

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:40:48 -0800

One evening, Richard and I had climbed into bed to watch a movie on the television that we had inherited from Jane and Horace’s son and daughter-in-law. I can’t remember now what we were watching, som

Spooky Babysitting Job

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:14:57 -0800

When I was twelve, my neighborhood friend Barbara asked me to team up with her for a babysitting job at a house on another block. This was actually my first babysitting opportunity and I was looking f

Crazy Fortune 3: The Dallas Experience

Thu, 4 Mar 2010 08:02:11 -0800

When Jane first offered me the job as her shopper, I could not possibly have imagined that this would end up being a full-time job. But I ended up shopping thirty to forty hours a week, and some of th

Malignant Narcissism

Mon, 1 Mar 2010 07:38:32 -0800

While researching the topic of sociopathy, I ended up getting an education in Narcissistic Personality Disorder as well. The two disorders often overlap, and sometimes it can be difficult to different

Crazy Fortune 2: The Dallas Experience

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:37:35 -0800

Once we had a place to live and Richard had a job, we set about getting to know our new environment. It was an interesting mix that we had never experienced before: Texas (specifically, Dallas) cultur