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Okay, full disclosure before I start, I do have a favorite child. I know a lot of you would call me out on it, I've not been subtle about it after all. Anyway... My mother's parents had a favorite child. They never tried to hide it

It's Gonna Be May (2026)...

I had to add the year because I'm pretty sure I use that title every year. I am nothing if not consistent in my annoying jokes. The world continues to be a raging shit show with new versions of shit showiness every day. This past month we added

Silver Crown

fiction poetry It sits on top of my head My silver crown Woven from every heartache and fear The worries of not being enough Not being good enough Not wife, not mother, not worker Every fever that wasn't mine Every stitch, every broken bone Every worry that started

Ah Spring...

fiction poetry (ish) (with apologies to the original authors of really lovely work) I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a... A...a....AHCHOO sniff What's in a name? That which we call a rose would By any other name still...sm..sm..sm.

Here We Go Again...

So there was another assassination attempt on Saturday. The fact that it's now Tuesday and I'm writing about it lets you know where we are as a country, right? I mean, after it happened and he was calling for his ballroom right afterwards I was like.

There Once Was...

fiction poetry There once was a woman from Hillsboro She did her own research and was quite thorough And what she discovered, She might never recover Most people are as dumb as a burro (present company excluded, of course) There once was a woman from New Mexico When her husband

And There's More...

This is a companion piece to yesterday's post. My friend Terri commented/commiserated on yesterday's post about how much is sucks to be stuck. To just feel like you cannot budge that scale, can't change those numbers. And as I was writing out a

(Dys)Functional Fitness...

This is going to be an extended version of the end of month fitness check in box so if things like this either trigger you or bore you to tears this is your bow out now. OH WAIT! Before you go...there is a new feature that Ghost added to

Ay ya yI...

Okay, not that anyone has been waiting for it but I guess it's my turn to write about AI. I'm a creative. You all know that from my grammar choices. Very creative. As such I view AI through that lense. And the AI we are generally

Oh Well...

We bought this house during the pandemic in a planned neighborhood. Those two things meant that you had limited choices. We could see the area where the neighborhood would eventually expand into and really wished they'd sell us a lot that backed on the woods. No go. So

Basket Case...

We have two hooks out front for hanging baskets. Last spring the flowers we put out end up lasting until we replaced them with Christmas baskets. And even then we put them in the backyard and though they didn't bloom at all over the winter they stayed pretty

Haiku You...

fiction poetry I missed haiku day Yesterday should have been it But today will do Haiku has strict rules I only follow the count Rules are for others Bombs drop from the sky Drones are flying overhead Peace through war? Insane. The mood is not good The world spinning off

Bad Mood...

I'm in a bad mood. It's been building for a few days. Finally gave in to it yesterday and just admitted I was in a foul mood. Figured that it would lift by today once it was acknowledged. Don't we all just want to

Wife Guy...

I was talking to Katie this weekend about her grandparents. She had some questions about them and their relationships to their families. As we were talking about my dad Katie said, "He'd be what we call a 'wife guy' now." And yes, yes he

Better Life

fiction poetry I was promised a better life If I did what they told me If I wore the right clothes If I sang the right songs If I said the right things I was promised a better life If I followed their rules If I looked the other way

Just a Little Stitious...

I almost wrote about this yesterday but I didn't want to jinx anything. See last time Michigan had a really talented team in the Frozen Four they played Denver in the semifinals and lost in OT. They played Denver in the semifinals again last night. I'm

Charm Offensive...

JD Vance went to Hungary to campaign for Orban this past week. It was so effective that Orban's low polling numbers went even lower after Vance spoke. I guess Vicktor hadn't paid enough attention to JD before to realize that he is a charisma black hole.

Two Weeks...

Berry. That's the shade of lipstick I'm after right now. I had my perfect reds phase and my deep burgundy period, now I'm after berry. A little less deep than the burgundy but not into pink territory. Monday I hoped that I would be

Space Talk...

Okay, so I was never a space kid. I didn't learn the constellations. I don't know what Apollo mission did what. I have no idea who the first astronauts (aside from the ones everyone knows) were. And I don't know who did what first.

Good God, Y'all...

So until and unless he decides to back down and move it again we are just a little over 24 hours away from Trump following through on his threat of totally wiping out Iran. Which a lot of people are interpreting as dropping a nuclear bomb. Which is insane. Which

Spring Cleaning Time...

Beautiful weather this weekend so we are taking advantage of it and doing some Spring cleaning. I tackled the catio while Brent is doing the first round of pressure washing and weeding. He's still working on that while I begged off to write. I know, I'm

Lost In Space...

fiction poetry I watched the sunrise this morning There are currently 14 people in space. Ten orbiting the Earth. Four orbiting the Moon. Fourteen people who have escaped the pull of gravity The relentless tug of the world around them. They will come back changed. Molecular changes. One twin in

Now Make it Rhyme...

Writing is really personal. That seems super obvious but sometimes I think it's easy to forget. When I write something, that's me. On the paper. Or the screen as the case may be. But it's something that didn't exist before and now

April Fools...

fiction Repost: Originally Posted on Totally Random But April 1, 2013 Debra hung up the phone, "Unbelievable! Some people just have no clue!" Stan rolled his chair back from his desk so he could see her around their low cubicle wall, "Another prank call?" "Yes!

Time Marches On...

Can you believe we are already at the end of March? And conversely... Can you believe it's only March? Depends on if you are talking about your personal life or the slog through the current Trump presidency. But this is MY March recap so we're going