Do you remember a cartoon with a little boy and girl standing next to each other arguing? The boy thinks the girl should listen to him because he has ‘one of these’ and she comes back at him saying that her mother told her because she has ‘one of those,’ she can have all of […]
External Entropy of Entitlement Exemplified
It’s no secret that the city of Detroit has issues, right? I mean, you almost don’t have to live here to know that, especially with the crime rate. The depression didn’t help and has only been compounded by a mayor and city council interested only in maintaining their power and authority over the good of […]
Digging Up The Dirt…On Myself: The Early Years Part 1
Do you remember your formative years with any degree of joy and happiness? We probably should because, my, how things have changed between then and now. And I’m not being flippant when I say that. Oh, hell. Yes, I am. I was recently looking through a school years scrapbook my mother kept for me that […]
I Do What I Do…Despite What Anybody Else Might Say!
You know those little cartoon things making their way around Facebook and other social media sites? They’re the ones with a couple of panels separated into What Someone Thinks I Do, What Someone Else Thinks I Do, What My Mother Thinks I Do, etc? Yeah, those. Some of them are really quite funny and it […]
How To Create The Persona Of An Author (The Easy Way)
Being a writer is extremely taxing, very difficult, and borderline excruciating work. It really is. The writing part is easy, though I’ve been told by friends that you really don’t even need talent for it. How else can you explain Twilight or Fifty Shades of Grey? That’s according to them, my friends. I’ve never read […]
Ever Have One Of Those Weeks You Swear Was A Conspiracy?
I sometimes tend to be a little bit like fellow author and blogger Dorien Grey in that I don’t always know what I’m going to write about for these posts until I actually sit down and start typing. Even then I don’t know. Well, not this week! Oh, no. I ended up with two topics […]
Even My Imaginary Friends Were Only Children
I was a fairly typical only child for the first twelve years of my life. Share? Share with whom? Why should I have to share when there was nobody to share it with? If it was there, it was mine. Even my toys had a strict regiment of sharing when it came time to play. […]
Guess What? I’m Dipped In Honey!
I remember being fascinated by certain people, usually actors, throughout my life. What did they eat? What did they drink? What did they like for dessert? What TV shows did they watch? Did they listen to Abba, too? I was 7. Naturally, the questions changed as I grew older. What did their staff make them […]
Growing Old The AbFab Way, Sweetie Darling
When the few subtle signs the universe sends you about aging are dutifully ignored, it’ll often reach out in ways that can’t quite be anticipated. The first subtle sign I received was in the form of kidney stones in my early 30s. “Here’s some pain,” the universe whispered and gave me a little wink. I […]
The White Noise Surrounding the Colorado Shooting
Let’s blame Canada! No…wait… We already did that when a chunk of the east coast blacked out some years back. Let’s blame Batman! Er…or you know, that Christopher Nolan guy, especially since he writes scripts. No…wait… Let’s blame Hollywood! Maybe we should just blame the gays! Or everybody who didn’t get to pray in school! […]
