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Posted on FaceBook about 5 minutes ago, ’cause I was pissed: We are still fooling with the cleanup from the insurrection on January 6th. It was not a protest. It was not a demonstration. It was an attempted coup d’etat, and nobody is going to be able to reframe, or diminish, or pretty up thatContinue reading “Once more, with feeling”

I think I said the other day that in an esoteric way, we are all diasporic, having been ejected from the womb, where it was warm and safe and we didn’t have to worry about foraging for sustenance. There are, of course, problems in some experiences when mothers are beset by illness or unexpected circumstances,Continue reading “I can’t find my way home…”

Posted on FaceBook earlier today, but still how I’m rollin’ at the moment: Still ruminating on what’s-her-name’s speech yesterday. Another perpetrator turned self-appointed victim. She and Matt Gaetz would make quite a couple – he would give up his seat to defend his daddy the ex-POTUS in the impeachment trial, and she SHOULD give upContinue reading “Say WHAT?”

So, yesterday I went to see one of my doctors. A provider. She is a very nice woman, and I like her; she’s from Louisiana, so what’s not to like? I give her a break for being an LSU alum, but she understands Mardi Gras, good gumbo, and beignets. I’ve been seeing her for severalContinue reading “Proof positive”

I saw a term earlier today that i found really interesting – post-truth society I’ve heard that we are post-racial (which is simply untrue) and post-Cold War (which may or may not be true) and post-traumatic (which is most assuredly not true, since trauma is current and ongoing). But I had not heard the termContinue reading “Best laid plans…”

Like many of us, I was never taught about Rosa Parks’ activist legacy. I learned only that she was brave, tired by some revisionist accounts, and her iconic act of December 1, 1955 was more or less spontaneous. All but the first is patently untrue. She was very brave, but more than brave, she wasContinue reading “And on we go”

This is a dreary day. As far as I am concerned, it is an active crime scene, because we wuz robbed. Robbed of promised snow. This is rain – plain, ordinary, dreary, damp rain. This is not snow. I have seen snow before, and this is not it. I want my snow! Yes, I understandContinue reading “Winning”

I woke up to a deliciously chilly temperature of 25 degrees outdoors. Of course, it’s only delicious to me because I am not outdoors, I am in my artificially heated nest, under a binkie, with socks on and a cup of hot coffee. I will, however, go out to experience the cold first hand inContinue reading “Baby, it’s cold outside”

So. The race was on to get a COVID-19 vaccine, and big pharma delivered. First, there was Pfizer. Then came Moderna. Now, bringing up the rear is Johnson and Johnson. And now comes the logistics, and probably politics that we can’t even see. Which vaccine is better? Which one should you get? Can you actuallyContinue reading “When things go viral…”

I think it’s reasonable to assume there are sensible people amongst us, and non-sensical people. When I meet people for the first time, it would be a really nice value-added component of the human design if I could determine their sensibility before subjecting them to a field test of the Myers-Briggs or Enneagram on theContinue reading “Sense and non-sense”