Blurbs from the Burbs by Chickysara

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ~ Charles Dickens , A Tale of Two Cities~ Years from now when we look back at how things are at this moment in time, I’ll bet we can all agree that good old Charles D. put in a neat little nutshell with that one. These are hard times. There’s no way to sugar coat it—recession, unemployment, foreclosures, etc, etc. I was sitting in my car the other day scratching my head, wondering h...