The Important Official Disclaimer

In case you just joined the wagon train, and did not bother to read my first ever post on this site (and indeed, why should you?), I would like to point out that all Pilly stories are BASED ON actual events.

In other words, they were INSPIRED BY something that actually happened to me, but they are not literally, factually true. Usually.

They are therapeutic (that's my story and I'm sticking to it) because they are a venue that allows me to poke fun at myself (and everybody else. Is nothing sacred? No, not really), so please do not award them the weight of say, sworn testimony in court.

Stephen King once said that writers are incapable of telling a story without making it better, and although I am nothing like Stephen King (you know, rich, famous, talented) I am still a person who feels compelled to write.

So I claim the privilege. If you want the facts, watch that fellow on CNN. Sometimes he gets it right. Not often, but sometimes. He tries.

I, on the other hand, do not. If you can't laugh at yourself go to therapy. I know a good guy, if you need a suggestion. I would tell you to go to hell, but that would be rude, and a sin and anyway, therapy is marginally less painful, it could do you good.

I'm not promising, or anything. I'm just saying.

What you should not do is take any of it personally. I mean, really. Wouldn't you be embarrassed to have the world know you have a stick jammed so far up your...anatomy...that you can't laugh at how I perceive you ( and me)?

If that IS a problem for you, just start your own blog and write amusing things about me. E-mail me, I'll help you set it all up. I'll suggest funny things you can say about me and ways you can insult me. I get suicidal on bad mental health days--really suicidal, not funny suicidal--but I have removed all sticks from my anatomy.

May I suggest you do so as well? Life is hard, no one gets out of it alive. And as my Grandma Helgeson used to say, you might as well laugh as cry.

Over all, I have found her to be right about most things.