Hello Autumn: Not Falling For Schemes, Skanks, or Bots
The autumnal equinox has finally arrived, and not a moment too soon. September’s been rife with hazards and the hapless hubris of the heinous, so-called “family values,” Republican party. Not at all amusing, and we could all use a few laughs right about now. So I’m going to refrain from discussing North Carolina’s Black Nazi […]
Idiots Claiming Immigrants are “Illegal”
In my last Other Worldly novel, Altogether Alien, I introduced a term wherein anti-alien imbeciles, making up a group called HUMANS FIRST!, coined a new bigoted term, invalid, to claim that extraterrestrial being were not valid entities. It was based, all too easily, on real life MAGA morons who persist in claiming that immigrants are […]
Sick Hypocrisy of Lying, So-Called Christian Gun Mongers
In my upcoming novel, Aliens Watch, protagonist Rowan Layne asks, “Why do these hypocritical cretins claim concern for children when they won’t lift a finger to prevent them from being gunned down at school?” Rowan refers to a woman who brandishes an AR-15 to kill an alien “lake monster” of her own fabrication, claiming that […]
Despicable Desecration and Misogynist Machinations
My hometown is Arlington, Virginia. What happened there this week hit me harder than even I expected. Like a sustained gut punch, made more intensely horrific by degenerate excuses for human beings defending it with insidious and inane Fox News-spewed talking points. No, a family of a fallen military member is not entitled to invite […]
Uncanny Democratic National Convention Connections
I bet if I say the word badass with a little heat and a whole lot of awe, you know who I’m talking about. KAMALA HARRIS! I typed her name in all caps, hearing Oprah Winfrey say it in a sustained emphatic cheer at the Democratic National Convention this week. It was Michigan Governor Gretchen […]
Yard Signs Advertising Racists Supporting a Traitor
In my upcoming Other Worldly novel, Aliens Watch, I created a violent, anti-alien, unpatriotic group called Patriots Glare, a play on words from rockets’ red glare in our US national anthem. Uncanny, as my protagonist Rowan Layne would say. Because I recently learned that the (now delayed) book about Project 25, a maniacal white nationalist […]
Standing Up to MAGA Bullies After Nine Years of Abuse
I saw something on social media that resonated with me in more ways than one. It referenced how America finally appeared to be ready to end an abusive relationship. It can’t happen soon enough because it’s been too long, and far too many folks look the other way at harassment and bullying on social media […]
Universal Correction, Time Travel, and The Best Novel Ever
Can you feel it? The universe correcting itself? Who knew it would happen in July and bring so much joy and hope in the process? Things just keep getting better, with a monumental accomplishment of diplomacy by the Biden/Harris administration, as well as a victory for humanity, when many unjustly, horrifically, imprisoned in Russia have […]
White Silence Is Not Support: Answer The Call 2024
It was a profound and exhilarating experience to be one of 180,000 women on a call (who broke Zoom twice) raising $2 million in two hours for Vice President Kamala Harris to become the next president of the United States, and the first woman to be president. A woman of color. In case you didn’t […]
YES MA’AM, WE KAM SMASH THE PATRIARCHAL GLASS CEILING
Like so many, I experienced a roller-coaster fluctuation of emotions on Sunday. I was on the phone with my almost 91-year-old life-long Democrat mother when the news broke. I was shocked, crushed, devastated, sickened, and furious. Livid, because I did not trust those, including lackwits blowing hot air for the media as well as diabolical […]