All because two people fell in love.
No. Not quite. That is not sufficient explanation for why my living room is a holding area for computer parts for the St. Isidore Foundation*. I suppose it could all be traced back to that ominous evening in 1976…as could most of the joys and sorrows of my last 30plus years. Off the rackWallWords fail me at a time like this.

I have seen them advertised in various magazines, but last weekend I found a representative sampling at both Target and JoAnn's. But the phrases just don't work for me. The Wall Words website has some good ideas, but still not quite right. If I had a single flower for every time I think about you. I could walk forever in my garden. If they could just custom tailor it to If I had a single flower for every piece of computer crap in this house… Or All that I am, or hope to be I owe to My Mother. -Abraham Lincoln That would be poignant on the wall of the boys' room. Maybe change that to "Father."

I have the tools and a bit of the skills. Why don't I just paint what I want on the wall?

Like "You'll Stay Up Until this Dump Shines Like the Top of the Chrysler Building."

Or "HELTER SKELTER."

(Wall Words introduces Wall Family! Family size full color vinyl photos that can be applied to walls instantly. You can transform your favorite photo to Wall Family and make it a part of your everyday life, not just stuck in an album or stored on your computer. Think of the fun we could have with this!)

*The St. Isidore Foundation - soon to be moving into their new retail storefront location on Green Bay Rd. in North Chicago, conveniently located between Wendy's and Burger King.
Next door to a payday loan operation. I should withhold my judgment. But I recoil nonetheless. If their mission is to bring technology to the 'under-served' in an environmentally friendly way, they are in the right location. The spoiled bourgeois part of me is repelled. I would rather that my family hang out in Lake Forest, above Williams-Sonoma, between Talbot's and the Lake Forest Bookstore. And I should just be happy to get the stuff out of my house. And security I will leave in God's hands. And the alarm company. And hope that hooligans would hit up the payday loan place rather that a Mac parts warehouse...