Last weekend my mother had the delights of an unexpected cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal), and I spent much of it in the hospital room with her. Since she was still having pain due to gastritis and it was putting her blood pressure through the roof, they kept her a couple days. Anyway, my depressive lethargy of […]
I saw Avengers: Endgame yesterday. Don’t worry, this is a spoiler-free zone. But it made me think about the power of the Time Stone. I mean, there has to be a reason it had been in the possession of the students of the mystic arts, the sorcerers we met in Doctor Strange. Ideally, these people, based on their […]
It’s summer! At least, here in Arizona it feels that way. In most places in the United States, it’s spring, but various cities across the state will be hitting triple digits tomorrow, April 26th. That’s right. 100+ Farenheit. And yes, we can fry eggs on the sidewalk in the summer, if you’re curious. And they […]
Today is my birthday. I am at an age where I often have to pause and do the math to remember what to say when someone asks how old I am. Today I turn 33, and I turn my thoughts inward and outward at the same time. For many years, my birthday was a time […]
The night of the 2016 United States Presidential election, I was a tech working the graveyard shift at the psychiatric hospital where I used to be employed. I was discretely checking my phone for the news, watching the reports roll in as each state’s electoral colleges lobbied their votes with the popular tally. Finally, Clinton […]
Yesterday morning, I took my dog to the vet. It was early and happened to be rather crowded. The book in my bag happened to be a copy of God is Not Great by the late, lamented Christopher Hitchens. I let my dog choose where to sit, and she selected a bench between an older […]
I’d like to take a step back…no, forward. I’d like to take a step forward in time with the thus far linear narrative of my history to talk about the evening I spent with members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. ISKCON, better known as the Hare Krishnas, better known as the folk in […]
For the record, and this has nothing to do with the subject of my post, physical therapy is brutal. Even pool therapy. The last time I had pool therapy for my back, it wasn’t so bad. Now I want to curl into a ball and die. I wonder if that makes it more effective, or […]
I mean, I don’t recall asking my mother what I would be. I remember telling her what I would be. A lot of variety in there. I wanted to be everything from a princess to a doctor to a teacher to a marine biologist (thank my cousin for that one). None of that exactly can […]
It occurred to me that in my blog post yesterday, I wrote, “We can’t simply compromise,” not “We simply can’t compromise.” The exchange of two words, yet a very clear distinction. Most of my life, I registered as an independent for the purpose of voting. Indeed, I did so until the 2016 elections, because by […]
The Implied Spider 