My apologies for the “radio silence” since last week; there were underhanded doings afoot. My mom turned 75 this week, so earlier this ...

There was a story out this week that almost made my head explode.  Just when you think you’ve seen every type of attack on birth control, t...

That was the subtitle of the “movie” I saw on Sunday.  You might have heard about this, but the English sketch comedy troupe Monty Python’s...

It was with much sadness that I read of the passing of blues guitarist Johnny Winter.  It was on his Facebook profile this morning.  (I’m ...

This week, a friend asked me if I was going to get back into online dating, once the Summer of Bluz was history.  (I considered engaging in...

This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a while.  I was going to cover football and hockey jerseys as well, but I had so much materia...

As I mentioned in my previous post, the only way to “fix” the Supreme Court decision allowing closely held corporations to deny birth cont...

SCOTUS 2, Women 0. I know I haven’t written about it yet, and obviously these news stories from last week went right to the heart of on...

I was really looking forward to this long weekend, not only for the R&R, but to get some stuff done around the place.  Naturally, I sta...

You may have noticed that a number of bloggers have been posting about their writing process.   At the end of their post, they then tap a c...