What is your reaction to crickets?

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When you spend hours writing something you think is good and nobody reacts to it, what do you do? Have a glass of wine 🍷? Eat a pizza 🍕?

Anyone out there got a strategy or remedy other than “get a bigger nail”?

This is an animated film about animals who usually try to kill each other coming together as friends in a crisis.

Perhaps the film asks, “What sort of disaster do we need before we all get along?”

My wife taught me something important today.

We were going to one of our favorite lunch spots. A place that is not too expensive, but not too cheap either. A place that is often just right, sort of a Goldilocks lunch place. As we went down in the elevator to go out into the parking lot, she gave me a once over to make sure I was presentable.

Over the years, I have realized that she ranks me somewhat less highly than I would like to score myself, particularly in areas of dress.

“Your last shirt bu…