Counting down the baseball games left Simone Wednesday, September 28, 2016 Five. A measly five games. That's it. I can count on one hand the number of games left f… Read more
Late September Lament Simone Monday, September 26, 2016 Is autumn my favorite season? I know it used to be, but I’ve kind of been on this sun kick for… Read more
It's Fall! - Time to Burn Things! Simone Thursday, September 22, 2016 BYOE (Bring your own effigy) and support your local bonfire. Pile on your unmentionables, unq… Read more
Tout-er Suite! Simone Wednesday, September 21, 2016 At this moment in time, uncannily, both of my daughters are French tutors. The younger tutors in… Read more
They thought I was dying Simone Monday, September 19, 2016 I was visiting my mom in late August, and lolling about on the school yard behind her house. The a… Read more
Star Trek is 50! Simone Sunday, September 18, 2016 How could I have missed Star Trek's 50th anniversary?---a few weeks back, or whenever it was. … Read more
Winter Storm All Up In Here It was only a matter of time before we had to pay the winter gods for all the unseasonable warmth we had over Christmas… Keep reading
Winter Medicinals You were outside scraping ice off your car....you had to walk through the windy tundra of a parking lot to get to the g… Keep reading
Bong Voyage So Olympic champion swimmer Michael Phelps was caught with a bong. Shame, shame. Let the flood of moral outrage begin.… Keep reading
Red Letter Day Today that family pack of ground beef I bought expires, requiring me to tear it apart with my bare hands and put it int… Keep reading
Burn Barrel Holy smoke. This is the way I remember it. How ours looked, in the back yard, behind the elm tree, next to the alley. A… Keep reading
2026 comes in like.... A selfish brat tossing all luck and good wishes out the window. Not caring who she beans down below with that heavy hor… Keep reading