Cobalt
I am a woman living with three cats but that doesn't make me a crazy cat lady. It's all the other stuff I do that mark me as crazy. The cats are purely incidental.
A Fragile Equilibrium
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Dogged doggerel in Well now
Waging odious battle against the never-dying green, I look up from the fence I am deforesting from the all-devouring viney weeds that simply will not die, no matter how much ethically wrong “w...
You learn from other's experience in Obsessive
Sudden wealth is not always a good thing. You hear the stories - the lottery winner who ends up worse off than before he won anything, the multi-million dollar athlete who files for bankruptcy...
Sounds of Saturday morning in Well now
It is a surprisingly unquiet morning here in the House of Eternal Entropy. I sit at the keyboard typing away as the tablet plays this morning’s stream of gathered news and blog clips. - Why do I ...
Nobody dies in Deplorable thoughts
Republican Rep. Raul Labrador sparked outrage from his audience and online after saying “nobody dies” for lack of health care access in a town hall Friday night at Lewis-Clark State College in Le...
Greetings from the darkside in Well now
Monday morning - 7 (freaking) a.m. I greet people in the morning - a mumbled greeting, the odd polite inquiry - because it’s what you do when you see colleagues in the hallways. I do it becaus...
Sparks that die ignoble deaths in Well now
I live an ADHD life, completely undiagnosed but undeniably evident. I never seem to finish anything. I am torn between two modes of thought: - Absolute dismay at my inability of complete anything...
It's all in your head in Boystories
“Miss Mack, I’ve got a terrible headache,” said the boy in my office doorway. Hmm. Maybe, maybe not. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Always in the back of my head… T...
The inevitable in Deplorable thoughts
I am addicted to the news lately. It’s become a rather unhealthy obsession, but I cannot stop. This is the train wreck from which I cannot escape. I am as drawn to all this as I am appalled by it...
Conversation with my cat in Well now
She looks up at me, her amber eyes full of offense. “Why do you keep throwing things on top of me while I’m trying to sleep?” “Lucy, love, with all the soft and comfy spots around the house to ...
Oh freaking lovely in Well now
What I knew: My next door neighbor is a druggie. By himself he’s pretty much harmless, rather pathetic in fact. It’s his friends that began to worry me. They come and go at all hours of the da...
Paroxysms of predatory joy in Well now
Three nights ago I woke up in he middle of the night shivering. Seems a hard cold front had snuck in fast while I was sleeping and dropped the outside temperature from a lovely 65 degrees down ...
The tenth day in Well now
So I had a week off of work and I squandered it, just royally squandered it. I didn’t go in to work a few times when the place was empty to catch up on the overwork I can’t get done during normal...
Feet on the couch in Deplorable thoughts
KellyAnne knelt on the couch in the oval office - Anger! Furor! Indignity! Oh hell’s bells, get over it. Who freaking cares. It isn’t even surprising. Obviously, if she can’t tell the difference...
How can that be? He likes you. in Deplorable thoughts
Excerpt from a post-inaugural interview by O’Reilly O’REILLY: You know what was fascinating? To watch you at the Inauguration with Barack Obama. You guys seemed to get along, alright. Would tha...
First things in Well now
I’ve been here before. One of the (admittedly few) nice things about my job is the school calendar. I cannot complain about the time off. Especially today. Smile. Especially today. I’m on day t...
Hey, I don’t want to get graphic, as telling the tale of what just occurred would require. Suffice it to say, there’s a new rule in my office. Anything that goes in your nose, stays in your nose.
Mutton in Deplorable thoughts
Once upon just yesterday ago, there was a law to protect the people great and small from those who would rob them of their life savings and leave them destitute in their old age. You would not...
Currently cursed in Deplorable thoughts
“May you live in interesting times.” I don’t think we should think of that as the Chinese curse anymore. I’m fairly certain it’s more of a Russian curse these days.
Hello and good-bye in Deplorable thoughts
We are still marking his time in office by days and weeks and already, already!, not even a month in, the first scandal-caused resignation. Does this surprise?
There are some places a litmus test is required in Deplorable thoughts
Saw my doctor this week. I like her, a lot. There was a possibility, though, that I was going to have to end our comfortable relationship of several years. It all depended on her answer to one qu...
Side effects in Well now
It is a good thing that the young have no idea about growing older. It would scare the living shit out of them. Like many aging souls, I take a cornucopia of prescribed chemicals on a regular ba...
I hope at least the Kool-Aid tastes good in Deplorable thoughts
The trumpists are crowing. They are completely unconcerned that the man lies, doubles down on his lies, and has his spin meisters spewing “alternative facts” as though facts are subjective. Peo...
A bar so low you can't see daylight under it in Deplorable thoughts
Honestly, before this particular election, as anyone who’s read me over these many years can attest, I never said word one about politics. I had faith that it would all work itself out and who ...
Her momma didn't raise her right in Well now
First off, let me say that I believe in regifting. It makes perfect sense for those people who aren’t really special but that you have an obligation to give something to anyway. As long as it’s...
You'd give a diabetic a candy cane in Well now
It’s just damn rude. Every year at Christmas it happens. I don’t mind, really, when the kids and their moms drop off brightly wrapped packages of luscious home-made nibble nuggets. It’s a school...
