Keep Calm and Carry On
It's hard to remember that phrase when I'm an eyeblink away from tears.
Got skills?
Hello, my name is Jennifer and I can barely change a light bulb.
Qualifying for the Familympics
Here's a few event suggestions for the next International Olympics Committee.
Information free? The gatherers aren’t
"Hey, D-H hacks! You stink! Why would anybody want to waste a precious eyeball blink on any of the drivel you produce?"
Thoughts on the ‘Batman’ massacre
Be gentle with one another today. That is all.
The bell tolls for ‘hu’
No, we don't have a convenient neutral singular personal pronoun. But since when have Americans cared?
On ending half a life
My cat is gone. His body is still here, still breathing. His ears twitch a little. One eye can squeeze shut, although the other has a fixed, dull stare. And – how very like him – he can still shed twice his weight in loose fur with just one sweep of your hand. But my...
Life, liberty and the pursuit of fireworks
It is perfectly acceptable to focus on the actual problems created by a situation rather than to try to eliminate all traces of the situation itself, particularly when there's absolutely no evidence that elimination effort actually works.
The 5-cent critic on “Brave”
Warning: Here there be spoilers.
Self-defense against fresh fruit
The lady in the little booth sauntered over as I rolled up in our Honda and let the window down. “Any fresh fruit or plants?” she wanted to know. “Yes,” I said, holding up our on-the-road munchies. “A bag of cherries.” She eyed the bag, purchased fresh from Safeway that morning. “You feel like having...
Slip me a Mickey
Bring on the control freaks, the litter Nazis, the men behind the curtain at the Most Artificial Place on Earth.
Rehearsal of the Living Dead
Messy business, all this blood. You can't do without it, though, and still be a proper zombie.
