The big guys don’t care that the avatars are gone — I’ll start with a quote from my friend Thief’s latest poem about change and new beginnings. “Answers are easy for those who matter.” Please find the beautiful poem in question tagged below. At this moment, my following feed starts out with two stories that are 12 hours old, one that…

No, that doesn’t make me stupid — I’m sure this article will piss a few people off. I don’t care. I’m angry and exhausted after spending hours last night talking to a despondent teenager about the world’s ills. He’d read a bunch of sensational bullshit on the internet and couldn’t process it. The things he read contained…

The extroverted, introverted dog — Toni the Talker’s enquiring mind just won’t stop. She’s thrown down another challenge and, since I take these things as dares, I’m in. But, this time, she suggested that if we want to, we should talk about our fur babies instead of ourselves. …

A little creative cussing can diffuse the most difficult situations — Last night I received a phone call from Joyce, a fiercely independent 93-year-old fashionista who lives a few doors down from us. She said she could hear voices outside and was afraid that someone was standing in her yard looking through her windows. At the same time I got that…

If you tell us you’re going to fix something, then fix it — Can I be pissed off for a minute? When he took away our entity bar, our new CEO told us that we’d get a true following feed in its place so we could easily find all of the writers we follow. …

Let’s Go Ice Skating — Yes, I’m in that photo above, the fifth one from the right. I’m violating my own policies about remaining somewhat anonymous, but you can’t really tell much from this old picture anyway. …

Life experiences count — So, it’s national “Kiss A Ginger Day.” I’ll be accepting kisses until midnight. If interested, get in line. Abby wants some too. Actually, I hadn’t heard the term “Ginger” until I was well into adulthood. Before that, I was carrot-top, orange-aid, red, and the red-hot mamma. To be honest, I…

Don’t forget to look up even when life sucks — Pretty picture, huh? I took it after the rain stopped to remind myself that life is beautiful, even if it doesn’t feel that way sometimes. I haven’t felt much like writing lately. The end of the year almost did me in with roof leaks, kid drama, Medium drama, and the…

Never try to fix things yourselves — My husband is an engineer. I’m generalizing here, but it seems all engineers think they can fix anything, regardless of the issue. Mine is an electronics engineer and works in cyber-security. …