Blogging is Dead but Trump is Just as Annoying as Ever

Hi all, I wasn’t planning a post today. Let me take this opportunity to apologize for my longer absences between posts. I’m trying some new routines out and time has been a little scarce. However, I came across this piece in The New Yorker about how blogging is becoming obsolete. First of all, don’t worry.…

You might be a very stable genius if…

What time isn’t it? What Animal isn’t this? One more. How about this one? Can you guess which animal this isn’t?   Okay let’s try numbers! Yay! Numbers! Which is the wrong answer? 1.) 10 2.) 8 3.) I’m the best number adder in the history of the country. The history. Of the country. The…

Bomb Cyclones, Snow Hurricanes and Other Dramas

During the great storm of 1992, I encountered an intruder in my home. My husband was away. That’s the first thing. Secondly, the storm was touted as “historical” and “major” and “dangerous” and other scary words, the scariest of which were “Snow Hurricane”. My children were 6 and 3. We lived on Elm Street. We…

Fashion is a Two-Faced Bitch: Ugly Holiday Sweaters

It’s not as though they don’t know they are ugly. They hang on their own rack, segregated from all the other clothes in the store, under a sign that says, “Ugly Holiday Sweaters $9.99 and up”. If the clothing industry had an advocacy organization it would be all over this because, clearly, it is a discriminatory…

It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like….Wednesday?

It sure doesn’t look like Christmas. Our tree is lying in the garage (FYI, today I’m pronouncing garage with the emphasis on the first syllable and I don’t know why. Let’s just go with it.) So yeah, it’s lying in the GA-rage, where it’s been since Sunday, probably infested with aphids and spiders and possibly…

Chicken Daily: The Good and the Bad

Good morning. What would you like to talk about first? The good news or the bad news? The Good News, am I right? Alabama, you were amazing last night. You showed us all that change is possible even in the most conservative of states. And black women of Alabama, I think it’s safe to say…

Good Luck, Alabama

Ghazal: America the Beautiful Alicia Ostriker Do you remember our earnestness our sincerity in first grade when we learned to sing America The Beautiful along with the Star-Spangled Banner and say the Pledge of Allegiance to America We put our hands over our first grade hearts we felt proud to be citizens of America I…

Eggs and Issues

I’m chief cook and bottle washer here. This means I do all of the planning, shopping and preparation of meals as well as the cleaning up. This means that should another individual in the household clean out the dishwasher or carry a dish to the sink, they are not contributing to the household, they are…

Don’t Tell Alabama What to Do!

Alabama is in the news a lot lately. The other night I heard a woman state, emphatically, that “Washington is not going to tell Alabama what to do!”. I’m guessing she doesn’t want any advice from the other 49 states in the nation, either. She was referring to a special election taking place that could…

I Went Christmas Shopping and Survived

I went shopping yesterday. I needed some deer. Not real deer, just a couple small not-real reindeer, to round out my holiday decorating. As some of you know from my holiday sing-along post, circa 2014, I equate holiday shopping with the fifth circle of hell. This year, however, I was dressing up my fireplace mantle…