My House Smells Like Cardboard
My house smells like cardboard, I think my cat is building forts with my moving boxes while I sleep (when I sleep), and I only had one panic attack this week so far, which is the excuse I’m using for being late with this blog post. Selling one house and simultaneously buying another—in a different […]
A Place That Beckons
I spent most of yesterday away from home with my dog, Bodie, while an inspection took place for the sale of my house. It was apparently also National Cat Lady Day, so first a shout out to Morris, my curious and sometimes cantankerous orange tabby, who has handled all sorts of strangers coming into our […]
Perhaps I Sensed 20 Years Ago Where I Would Ultimately Land
In addition to the stock market crash and myriad other fiascos taking place in our current mess of a nation, it’s also been a real-estate-rollercoaster of a week in my personal abode, which I have been attempting to sell for weeks now. I had glimmers of hope these past two days, but now I’m in […]
Along the Extraterrestrial Highway: A Film Inexplicably Called Paul
My current fav snark circulating social media (other than the hilarious penguin stuff) is: Aliens are going to be super confused when they show up threatening to overthrow our leaders and we’re all stoked and offer to help. Ya think? Just about anything these days is better than watching the stock market, our democracy, and […]
Scammers of Authors and Billionaire Scumbags
As I head into the last weekend before another birthday, the third weekend of having my house on the market, and having just experienced yet another disappointment in terms of my out-of-state house search, I’m otherwise living the typical bizarre spring fluctuation that seems to happen in every region I’ve resided. That would be the […]
Viva Las Fantasy Road Trip Films
In yet another quest for fun films to chase away the world-wary blues, I recently watched one nostalgic movie and one from early in this century that both featured cars—a road race and a road trip—and also included the fabulous Ann-Margret. What were the odds, given the first flick was an Elvis epic from 1964, […]
Beware the Ides of March For Unpaid Debts From Ongoing Idiocy
Today is March 15, so I dug up my old newspaper column published in this week in 2019 that addresses current events in relation to the Ides of March. Once again I found it both uncanny in its prescient predictions and yet disheartening that we’re dealing with the same issues then as now, not to […]
Finding Humor In Inept DOGE Dumbasses
Anyone else struggling to find humor from literally anything in our daily national news these days thanks to the deluge of demented dribble coming out of the White House? That’s why it surprised me when one terrible tidbit from the latest in ludicrous lies tickled my funny bone. Especially because it involved stomach-churning, nail-biting threats […]
Imagine Being So Clueless As to Claim This President Competent
Yes, I’ve been keeping informed about what’s happening in my country, I just haven’t been writing about it for my own sanity. Ignoring bad things won’t make them go away, but I’ve tried not to emotionally react to events and atrocities wrought by the current presidential administration that were clearly expected, even if worse than […]
Witch Trial Tribulations of my Other Worldly Novels
There’s yet another cartoon from 2017 circulating on Bluesky, this one a WaynoVision bit of snarky genius, wherein a Puritan man lights a fire beneath a woman labeled “WITCH,” she being tied to a stake, while he says to her, “I’m the real victim here.” As discussed in two previous blogs posts this month published […]