A coworker once shared with me what she called the Louisiana philosophy regarding members of the animal kingdom, particularly as seen on the road. If it’s dead, eat it. If it’s moving, try to kill it and eat it. I’ve been thinking about that, um, wisdom? Not because I’ve had a sudden urge to become […]
Category Archives: Life
Mailing It In to the Lost and Found
So what are we gonna write about today? No idea. Will anyone read it anyway? Dunno. I no know. Does that matter? They might be too busy reading Elon Musk buying things memes. Should we mail it in? Maybe. Speaking of which, I just got the mail and found art. Earlier I found Dale. Or […]
Graupel Graupel
I thought we were done talking about the weather, but then … Mother Nature said, “Watch this.” And the meteorologists got all excited about having something to do. And the snow happened … And the wind happened … And the rain happened … And the sun happened … And the graupel happened … “He drinks […]
Send Help
Can we talk about the weather? I mean, when it’s 74F outside but the forecast calls for snow showers tomorrow night … there’s gonna be some weather. I have come to realize in recent years how much the barometric pressure affects my body. I don’t have a trick knee that predicts rain, but maybe trick […]
Something’s in the Air
I guess I just have to laugh? I think, “Oh, I really should write something today.” And then tree trimming trucks from the electric company roll up into the neighborhood. Yay for reliable power. Boo for waaaaah, waaaaah, waaaaah, boop, boop, boop, brrrrrrrrrrrrr, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, kapow, wham, kerchoo. What was I doing […]
Bandwidth and Shiny Gold Idols
Greetings from my unplanned hiatus. Everything is fine. Sometimes life reprioritizes our priorities. I was talking with friends the other day about the phenomenon in Corporate America of “a job well done is rewarded with more work”. And how too often managers asked to help prioritize projects and tasks just don’t, instead telling their employees […]
In the Bleak Midwinter
I wrote some new lyrics for a Christmas classic. In the bleak midwinterIt’s bleak it’s bleak it’s bleak bleak bleak In a world pandemicIt’s bleak it’s bleak it’s bleak bleak bleak Groundhog Day is coming soonIt’s like we’re in the movie though Running on a hamster wheelA great pandemic hamster wheel Okay, I’m not as […]
Joy to the World
Happy Advent season, now that we’re well into advent season. Joy has been hard to come by in the era of pandemic life and social media shrieking, hasn’t it? I find myself intentionally making time for things that spark joy. Like spray painting the pumpkins I’ve had on the porch with a coat of white […]
Earworms
I’ve had the weirdest combination of songs stuck in my head. It started when a friend sang Just a Closer Walk with Thee at … not church like you might expect. A funeral. I’m pretty sure the deceased would say there are worse things that could be stuck in my head. A PBS special about […]
Correlation Causation Yada Yada
A friend posited on the SoMe this week that perhaps those who continue dismissing Covid as not a serious problem, as really only affecting the elderly and infirm, don’t happen to spend any time around the elderly or infirm. Maybe that’s generous, maybe not. The case numbers, hospitalizations, and test positivity rate continue to rise […]