A friend of mine and I recently took our roosters to a feed store to get adopted. Marie’s guy had gotten mean. Just going into the pen meant risking fingers, eyes, teeth. Mine was just loud. Even though we both live in a rural area, the sound carries. Doesn’t sit well with many of the […]
When I was the editor of The Oakland Tribune back in the 1990s I kept a loaded Glock in my top drawer. I take issue with the blanket news reports that the Annapolis shooting at the Capital Gazette, which killed four journalists and an employee, was a “surprise, a shock.” Newspapers in the ‘90s — and even more so […]
When I was in my late 30s, I started to want to have a baby. My husband and I talked to our doctor, who said I should stay off birth control pills for three months to let those hormones get out of my system. We used condoms for a while, but at three months, we […]
As a former copy editor, I love words. I can’t spell them a lot of the time (thank goodness for spell-check), but a while back “kakistocracy” gave me pause. It means: A government run by idiots and incompetents. Simple as that. It was such a great word that I called my twin sons to tell […]
Way back in 2012, this is what happened: AT&T had a panic attack when a new version of Apple’s operating system — which allowed users of iPads and iPhones to video chat people with FaceTime — wasn’t making them any money. So they threw a switch and blocked the newest users from using it for […]
At the risk of beating a comatose horse, let it just be said that I for one am getting kind of tired of the whole sexual harassment fiasco. The #metoo movement (which I joined several weeks ago) is already getting old for me. Let’s get this straight: Women have been sexually harassed ever since they […]
With sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein and now Kevin Spacey all over the news, one might ask oneself: Why isn’t Donald Trump among those walking the path of shame? Many of my friends have shrugged off my theory, but I believe I have an answer: It’s because of Bill Clinton. Allow me to explain. […]
