Of Mice and Other Stuff

So it is snowing, light little flakes that must be hovering right on the point of freezing, because large chunks of collected flakes keep flaking off the roof. A dreary Sunday here to mark what is probably going to be a rather dreary Easter for local Christians. There would have been not much of a […]

Don’t Mess With Texas — or Colorado

It’s a darn good thing I didn’t broach this as a topic yesterday — I would have missed so much blog fodder. Na Ki’o was a huge, huge help in writing this; every last typo is entirely his fault. Just about 100 years ago, the world was in the grip of a viral pandemic while […]

Dear Teachure

Please excuse TL from writing his blog today at he woke up feeling quite dizzy despite loading up on Zyrtec during a recent uprising of allergens. He also proved a bit indecisive as to which of many covid-related topics to address this morning, although speaking of uprisings you’re bound to eventually hear about the second […]

Rising

Another 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment this past week. That means, without counting the pre-virus unemployed, that the number of people dropped from their jobs in the last three weeks is now a greater population than any state in the union except California. Add in the previously unemployed, or give it another week, and […]

Stranger Times

I was not seeing phantom deer in my yard the other bright night. I remembered to check Monday night, and if it was vegetation it should still sit out there looking like a deer, right? But no, no fauna- (or fawna)-looking flora. Last night, out the laundry room window on an even brighter night, I […]

Shattered

A few years back my book group read a best-seller, Unbroken, about one man’s incredible ordeal in World War II where his situation went from bad to worse to dire as his plane crashed in the middle of the Pacific; he made it to a small life raft and then drifted, eventually pushed by the […]

Crazy World

Once long ago, Julie Andrews starred in the movie Victor Victoria as an out-of-work chanteuse in 1930s Paris who is plucked from the street by a very flamboyant Robert Preston (who was so convincing that he selected a western for his next project, and said of his character in that, “Gay, he ain’t!”). He convinces […]

To Your Health

With our newly-minted medical degrees, Kara and I yesterday diagnosed co-worker James with a sinus infection and suggested he go through the convoluted steps of making an appointment with a doctor who might have, somehow, better credentials. And prescribing power. His response: “I don’t have health insurance.” I try. I try and try and try. […]

Paradigm, Spare a Dime

I failed you yesterday: not only did I dangle a participle in front of you, very first thing, but I somehow managed to forget to report the biggest story one could find on April 1 (no foolin’): there was a semi-truck that toppled over and caught fire on a highway near Dallas. Its cargo? Toilet […]

No Foolin’

Never much of a fan of practical jokes, and rarely someone who can remember jokes, April 1 is not my idea of a great holiday. This year I imagine most of us are having trouble seeing the humor in the world’s most colossal prank of our lifetimes. There is one joke I sort of remember. […]