Welcome, all you young whippersnappers! Thank you for coming to today’s session, Pro Tips for the Midlife Woman! I’m sure you’re wondering just what the hell I’m talking about, as the notice said this session was Fifty Easy Cocktails With FREE Samples!, …
I am entirely out of flonks. Flonk bereft. My field of flonks is not only barren, it is overfarmed and sown with salt; flonk dust is blowing in the wind.
In a world…Where sanity and weather collide…Temperatures will fall…a heroine will rise….Now showing in Chicago…THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL. Five years after the last #$^@#$&^$%^* Polar Vortex, the sequel has been released upon an innocent populace. It is cold, damned cold. Today is the …
Nature has the right idea in winter. To everything there is a season, and winter is the season for rest. Hunker down, hibernate, recover from the autumn and gather strength for the spring.
So after 13 years of blogging, I find myself at a new place in life. It may reek of feet, stale food that is still on the plate you took to your room four days ago what is wrong with you I swear to GOD I’m gonna have words with your mother!, and Febreeze (yes, it’s bottle of liquid chemicals, but for the love of being the only female in the house, can we lift a grateful HALLEFREAKINGLUJAH to the heavens above for Febreeze?), but it’s calm(er) here. There are fewer tears, and those that do break through are about 51/49 in favor of tears of laughter over those of pain, frustration, and fear. I have more time for projects that interest me, more time for my students, more time for life.
Dr. James T. Webb died this weekend. The gifted community is in shock, is in mourning, is absolutely heartbroken. I just saw him a week ago, at SENG, and to my untrained eye he was the very image of vibrant …
Did you know that today is World Naked Gardening Day? Yep, first Saturday in May. Sadly, I am not gardening, neither clothed nor starkers. Today I am the chauffeur and ATM for my kid at a technology/hacker conference. The things …
Since starting this blog nearly 11 years ago, I have made no fewer than 34 references to my beloved Chicago Cubs, nearly always referring to the heartbreaking and apparently unbreakable losing streak, and usually mentioning the end of the world or …
In a year’s worth of days, there are usually a few that stand out, no? Ones you’d like to acknowledge and perhaps celebrate. Major holidays, such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, come to mind. Days like your anniversary (or Divorceiversary, if …
