December 7 – 11, 2015 The week begins on a dark note. Bad things are governed by quantum entanglement, I maintain: one bad thing can set up a force field, out of which spring subsequent bad things. Update: the washing machine is making screaming sounds and the laptop’s cursor works intermittently. The dark note gets […]
My husband had surgery and complications and is recovering slowly, entailing a lot of medical appointments and difficult information and difficult decisions and long absences from home and office. Home and office have taken advantage of this to do bad things. You might think this increase in badness is due to psychology or coincidence; it’s […]
Nov. 23 – 27, 2015 The week begins with a polite, controlled rant about obvious income inequality and COME THE REVOLUTION THE POOR WON’T BE DIRT-POOR OR THE RICH FILTHY-RICH EVER AGAIN. Meanwhile, Cameron’s fretting because she’s going snow camping and can’t take along any pumpkin pie which is ancient, has political overtones, and is […]
I grew up in rural and small-town midwest. Some people were richer than we were, some poorer. And being normal, hierarchizing humans, we always knew who was rich and who was poor. But regardless everybody went to the same grocery stores, schools, churches, dime stores, movie theaters, summer concerts. In other words, nobody was so […]
Sally says the big breakthrough in hyper super fast electronics is not silicon, not graphene, but the black gunk that collects in your septic system pipes. At least there’d be plenty of it. Erik says the hardest of the hardest-core people are not the mountain climbers or the trekkers on the Inca trail, but the […]
My husband’s in the hospital (he’s going to be ok) for the foreseeable or the next couple of days, whichever comes first, and I’m there with him. In a hospital, you give up control — for excellent reasons — and you haven’t a clue about what’s next. Even if I were granted a clue, […]
Back in October 2013, Cassandra wrote a post about writers’ frustrations, sexual come-ons, and the hopeful hopelessness of the national navy in landlocked Bolivia. It’s a post so deeply horrible and so deeply sweet that we thought you’d like to read it again. For every story that makes it to print, there are scads that die […]
The world is full of iniquity. Guys shoot up college classes; they also shoot up churches, malls, and elementary schools. Little kids get shot playing on their front porches. A hospital gets bombed and its doctors die. Drug companies raise prices of drugs for sick people by obscene amounts. Gun advocates keep the country locked […]