Help, Unwanted

Apparently, these days, my life is not complete unless there’s a dilemma in it. As you know, I have agonized for well over a week about which portions of federal assistance alphabet soup to pour into my bowl, as I have pored over their ingredients and sought assistance from any cook who might provide it. […]

Exponential

Did you know there is a website called “Math is Fun”? Do you suppose there are people out there who actually believe this? I mean, I suppose there must be. Some people, perhaps even people I associate with, although I might never admit this in public, make numbers their avocation. They not only understand them, […]

Shopping the Safe Way

I have gone to Safeway many, many times over the course of my lifetime. Many times. And when I go in, I almost always turn to the right, and then I go up one aisle and down the next until I reach the left-hand side of the store, at which point I head to check-out. […]

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 […]