Uncomfortable Silences

Late last week, just before my birthday, I received another FB message from the (other) Most Dreadful Man On Earth. He had something pressing to share, something important and urgent. This, after I’d flat-out ignored the last several unsolicited messages about movies he’d seen, names of  directors he’d been trying to remember, shows he’d watched and enjoyed, … Continue reading →

The Insanity of the Hour

A brief visual entry here, nothing more, but did anyone else who saw the lunacy that was this… …and this… …picture this… …with a dose of this…? And then there was this moment… .. …and all I could think was… So he also said something like this… …and, come on, we know he really meant … Continue reading →

The Uninvited Guest

People You May Know, it read. She found it easy, scrolling there, down, down. People her anthropologist acquaintance knew. (Passing acquaintance, mind you, collecting data.) People her old school chum knew. (Mrs. Green’s third grade class! As if she could recall.) People her third cousin, twice-removed, knew. (Can you add me to your relatives list, … Continue reading →

Food Babes & Other Nutritious Crazypants

Allow me some raw honesty for a moment (as if I wasn’t ever honest here to begin with): I absolutely abhor preachy, in-your-face health nuts. Be healthy, fine, sure, yes. I get that. I’d like to at any rate, but I refuse to kowtow to voices of total batshittery. I’ve some acquaintances who are on their way to … Continue reading →