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Knight of the Nuchshleppers

Knight of the Nuchshleppers

In Nevada moments ago, Ted Cruz joked to applause and laughter that Elizabeth Warren might have a penis: “In today’s Democrat Party, how do we know she doesn’t?” #TheUndercurrent — Lauren Windsor @lawindsor The funniest part of this whole story, to me, is that he had ABSOLUTELY no forkin’ clue how quickly this would snap around and bite him on the ass, if it were attached by a taut bungee cord.…

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A Little Political Fantasy

A Little Political Fantasy

I’ve been entertaining myself by creating a little political fantasy. You might call it the imagined final chapter of the Donald Trump Saga. It starts with a plot twist. Mark Meadows is not the rat. In fact, it’s Ivanka who is the mole de Merde a GoGo. Clearly, that girl has more brains than both her idiot brothers, Oucheday and Uckshmay, combined. (Granted, that’s is not much of an…

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Trvmp, Ivana's Grave, and the BoneSawdis.

Trvmp, Ivana’s Grave, and the BoneSawdis.

This is the trophy, the big FARK YOU to America, that was presented at Bedminster this weekend at a golf event where Trvmp and his sponsors couldn’t even give away tickets. (Tix were selling for just a buck and even then there was a pathetic turnout. Mostly just curiousity seekers, I imagine. Gawkers stepped around the raw, tacky, tax-loophole of a grave where they dumped the mother of Trvmp’s…

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Degrees of Evil

This popped up on my Facebook feed today. It was something I wrote six years ago and it still true. ________ Michael and I were just talking about how awful the political situation is. He said, “we survived Bush.” But then we both agreed that Trump is so much worse than Bush. Bush et. al. were within the normal range of evil. Fomenting a war in order to seize a weaker country’s natural…

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The "Heroes" (?) of January 6 Committee

The “Heroes” (?) of January 6 Committee

While I am grateful all these former WH staffers have come forward to speak to the J6 committee, don’t believe the hype that they are heroes. (The Committee has to push that line in order to get others to testify, and certainly the country needs to hear from them.) But these people enabled Prince Cheesypoof for years. They were loyal to HIM not to America. They supported (even helped craft) his…

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Taking a Hiatus

The last post brings us to the end of all the stories I’ve written to date. The next one, will bring us back again, full circle, to the very beginning of this odyssey. Rather than jumping right in and repeating the whole cycle again, I’ve decided to temporarily focus my energies on other projects. I’ve begun painting, and of course gardening madly! I just picked a whole bunch of small, sweet…

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Le Scandal

Originally published April 7, 2015   Pila I was on a trajectory to a perfectly normal life. I was mostly good, though sometimes a bit naughty. There were times I was full of certainty and promise and other times I was crippled by misgivings and frozen by doubt.   Sometimes, I felt myself to be invincible; other times, I felt vulnerable and bare. In other words, I was perfectly normal. And then…

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Blown Away

Devastation after Hurricane Dorian, Bahamas, 2019 First published Oct 25, 2019 Sama It was going to be gigantic. Overwhelming. Massively destructive. They told us to seek safer ground.  Most people did. But I lived with my mother who was old and sick and infirm. She could not be moved. She begged me to leave her behind and seek safety.  She didn’t have much longer to live even under the best…

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A Gentle, Invisible Force

A Gentle, Invisible Force

First published August 16, 2016 San I first met her on my first day of school and she was there when I died, but I barely knew her.  Our lives crisscrossed each other like strands of DNA.  Though we rarely interacted in any deeply personal way,  we applied a kind of subtle gravitation force upon each other. In school, she was the pretty one.  The smart one.  The one who never let her emotions…

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The Demons Inside

First published Aug 7, 2016 Dor Even as a child, I could not bear the weight of my own emotions.  I bore the brunt of everything with maximum intensity. It was both a gift and a curse. My attachments were obsessive. My pain, unbearable.  But my soul went deep. I’d be angry then sad then joyful then angry and sad again, sometimes in the course of an hour. I had no control, and nobody ever taught…

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Heal! I say. Heal!

Heal! I say. Heal!

First published September 23, 2019 A word from me… Hubby and I have started studying Reiki as our local community college.  So far, just one class but it was interesting and fun.  The teacher promises that it will increase psychic abilities and help concentration. For her, these are side benefits.  For me,  if I can accomplish JUST those two things, I will be satisfied. I’m sure many of my…

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The Definition of Us

The Definition of Us

first published March 29, 2015 Aya Love is defined not only by the emotions we feel for others but by how others feel about us. We each make our choices about who we want to be. Shall we be the kind of person whom others feel joy to keep close to their hearts, even after we long are out of their lives? Will we be entirely forgettable, leaving little impression on those whose lives we’ve…

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Equilibrium and the Bell Curve

Equilibrium and the Bell Curve

First published March 23, 2014 Mok As a child, I never had much use for school. Perhaps I lacked the interest or the attention span. Or maybe I just wasn’t smart enough. Or maybe a little of each. I dropped out of school before high school and felt like a big, important man because I worked and had spending money, while my friends still suffered in class. When I was older, those same friends…

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Anchors Aweigh

First published July 29, 2016 Gle I was just out of school, still mostly a boy,  when I joined the Navy. There was a big war going on, and I was eager to serve my country and see the world. In the early days, I had the exuberance of youth; the certainty of my invulnerability. I believed I would return home a hero, with interesting tales to tell for the rest of my life. It wasn’t long before my…

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Important Life Lesson - Addendum

Important Life Lesson – Addendum

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/obituaries/charlotte-fox-61-trailblazing-alpinist-and-everest-survivor-dies.html Charlotte Fox was one of the world’s most well-known mountain climbers.  (Read the obit).   And in the absolute irony of ironies,  she died not tumbling into a crevice on Everest or by any of the hundreds of other ways one might die while ascending the world’s highest peaks.   No. …

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An Important Life Lesson

An Important Life Lesson

First published June 3, 2018   Rereading this old post,  and knowing in hindsight what came later for these actors, (the show was brought back WITHOUT Roseanne),  really drives home my point:  we never can know what’s going to happen.  Good often comes from bad,  and bad sometimes comes from good.  We can’t control everything.  In fact,  we can control very little.  So why worry? We can only deal…

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Beautiful Birds in a Cage

Beautiful Birds in a Cage

first published July  20, 2016 Schi I was born into slavery ; I never knew any other life.  My mother was taken as a girl.  As I was the product of her body, so I was property as well.  My mother was concubine to the master and even though I was the offspring of that union,  I had no birthright. We, and others like us, had to work because we were not wives.  We had no power, no rights, little…