For the first 36 years of my life, I was a dog person. I’d never owned or spent any significant time with cats. They seemed a little standoffish, if I’m being honest. I like the validation my puppies give me as I walk in the door. Sure, it’s a little bit needy and over the […]
What’s Up With Cats? Thoughts From a Dog Mom Read More »
It is 6:55 am. Your alarm rings and as you swipe away the inexplicable multitude of notifications that arrived overnight, you notice a text from the school district. There’s a 2-hour delay. Not so bad, you think, stopping your alarm and getting to sleep in a whole extra 30 minutes before work. 7:45 am. Did
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Christmas shopping is an unmitigated nightmare. People have died. I’m not great with crowds under the best of circumstances, but a box-shaped maze full of this year’s must-have items and 700 of your neighbors still coming down from a combo of too much turkey and too much alcohol is a bridge too far. A tension
Black Friday, Online Shopping, and How to Keep Your Sanity When Christmas Shopping Read More »
Thanksgiving is always the 4th Thursday of November. But that can be all over the place in terms of the actual date of November. In this chaotic and vaguely apocalyptic year of our Lord 2024, it is on the twenty-freaking-eighth. By the time we finish ungodly amounts of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and the green
We All Agree Late Thanksgivings Are Terrible, Right? Read More »
Literature has long been a part of the political landscape. Authors write what they know. And what they experience. Many are part storytellers and part political commentators. So much so that the mere ability to read has, at times and for various groups, been a defiant and potentially life-threatening act of rebellion against one’s oppressors.
Books on Fire: Reading IS Political Read More »
My teen and I love horror movies. We see an absolutely absurd number of them every year. Everything from Jordan Peele’s newest deeply thought provoking and scary in an oh-god-this-is-an-accurate-treatise-on-societal-issues type of horror to teens-enter-scary-location-and-are-systemically-killed-but-I-don’t-really-care-because-they-are-all-kind-of-awful type of horror and everything in between. This has led, especially me after many years, to become a little jaded.
How to Make Horror More Horrifying – Immersive D-Box Seats? Read More »
I’m a naturally skeptical person. Maybe even outrageously so. Ghosts, absolutely not. Psychics, 100% fake. Bigfeet (bigfoots??), I don’t think so. But I do love all the stories about them. So naturally, when planning our epic honeymoon, Kevin and I had to find somewhere that blended our combined interests. Many couples will go gallivanting off
How I Hilariously Found Unexpected Ghosts at Gettysburg Read More »
Remember that dumpster fire of a time I’ve been having? All that bad luck trapped in such a short period it was almost comical…almost. I was begging for just a small amount of bland, tasteless life for a few weeks. I can only imagine that the moment I hit post, the powers that be laughed
The Universe is Unhinged With Its Bad Luck Distribution Read More »
The last few weeks have been nothing short of some terrible Shakespearean tragedy or, depending on the readers’ viewpoint, perhaps comedy because only in a story would so much insanity happen back to back. I don’t even know if I believe it. Let me take you back to the more innocent time of 2 weeks
The Absolute Dumpster Fire That Has Been My Life Read More »
