Gold collars, townies, stereotypes, and why my kids are going away to college

STRATFORD, NJ, USA Everyone knows about “blue collar workers” (people who perform manual labor) and “white collar workers” (people who work in an office setting, especially managers). Of course, life is rarely clear-cut enough to fit broadly defined labels.  So, some people try, with mixed results, to combat that by creating more categories and yet more [...]

Featured? Thanks! But why?!

STRATFORD, NJ, USA So, I use this site called WordPress.com to write garybutterworth.com. For reasons I cannot explain, WordPress has made me their “Featured Blog” for the “Life” category, which is one of their most popular.  Cool, huh?! So, for the past few days, I have been getting dozens (yes, dozens!) of new visitors to [...]

Eleven month-iversary

STRATFORD, NJ, USA It was November 19, 2006, when I moved back to NJ, and November 20 when my grandmom came back home from the rehab center and this little adventure started.  So, it’s been 11 months.  I’ve been using the anniversary date each month to make some sort of blog commentary of how I’m [...]

Gary: Rutgers = “homey”

STRATFORD, NJ, USA Apparently I was quoted in the Rutgers University student newspaper seven and a half years ago. Among the many visitors included prospective student Gary Butterworth, a junior at Highland Regional High School, and his mother. They toured the Rutgers Spirit Shop in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. “I’m [...]

Nana and Why I’m having a hard time moving on

STRATFORD, NJ, USA Note: Here’s an interesting dichotomy about me: on one hand, I think I’m a pretty open, public person, as evinced by this website.  But, at the same time, there are some topics that I rarely, or never, touch on here, or even with friends.  They’re personal, and I don’t feel like sharing.  [...]

If you could meet anyone…

I’ve been getting a lot more comments than usual the past few days.  I’m not exactly sure why, but I’ll take it! So, I thought I’d use this moment of popularity to try to play-up the interactivity of my blog by posing you a question: If you could meet anyone, whom would you meet? I know, I [...]

What do we eat?

STRATFORD, NJ, USA  Fun fact: usually, when I don’t update my website for a few days, it’s for of one of the following reasons: I’m busy. I’m lazy. I have nothing worthwhile to say. Actually, scratch that last one.  My readers know that I frequently post even when I have nothing worthwhile to say!  But [...]