We’re approaching the one year anniversary of Prince’s death. If I were to put words to the deep-seated, visceral missing of Prince I feel, it would be knowing he isn’t around to […]
SCRABBLE and Economic Inequality
SCRABBLE can be a harsh word game. You can end up with a rack of all vowels, no consonants; a rack of all consonants, no vowels; a rack with what I call […]
1984: Doublespeak & News peak
The first time I read 1984 by George Orwell for an English class, Ronald Reagan was POTUS. And the class discussed the book in context of Mr. Orwell and his experience and history. […]
Some Vox Validation, (2017.04.05).
The investigation of the Trump campaign ties to Russia is distracting. I’ll say it again, it takes away from the now. We are sitting at the circus but are looking at the […]
What a difference a vowel makes …
Whilst a-skimming and a-scrolling through the Huffington Post headlines on Monday, I read “Trump defends World Maternal Health Organization.” What!? Whoa. And so I scrolled back up and the headline resolved itself into “Trump […]
Word mash: Proseur
Proseur: A pretend writer of prose. Proseur is a word mash-up between the word prose: “written or spoken language in its ordinary form without metrical structure.” (Many thanks to the Googles.) And […]
A survivalist approach to safety pins.
An uncle of mine was a survivalist in the truest sense of the word.
Post-post-racial America.
When Barack Obama was elected President in 2008, many declared that we were entering a post-racial time. I didn’t believe it. The persons stating we had entered a post-racial era were white. […]
That time it’s good to be no one …
Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their analysis of the savings of Trumpcare (AHCA) over Obamacare (ACA) covering the next 10 years. $337 Billion, or an average savings of 33.7 billion dollars a year! […]
Fearless Girl, Charging Bull
As a child raised in Wisconsin farm country, I tip-toed past the pasture of a working farm where a snorting bull complete with a ring in his nose, a short tether and […]