It’s not like they even need it. Boy howdy, there is nothing like a deadly, weeklong freeze in your state of 30 mil to remind everyone that government — good or bad — only affects those who can’t afford to escape the clutches designed for everyone else. The rich don’t…

I’ll take tickets for a family of five. I tell you what, if I never have to hear the words “America is more divided than ever,” I will die happy. You know why? Good. I’m glad it’s more divided than ever. It should be. Now, everything I have to say…

Still have a mother of a hangover over a month later. I slept like shit the night of the election. Not because the networks hadn’t called the election for Biden. I had emotionally prepared to hang from that cliff by my goddamn fingernails for however long it took. Long-hauler, baby. These loins are made of steel. My sleep was…

During The ‘Rona, I have one option to survive emotionally. My “Get Through the Day” mantra has faced constant readjustment in these days of isolation. Every day, standards of behavior and expectation must be whittled down to realistic degrees, the lowest of which are never low enough. Four and a…

I know this is a weird post for Medium But I need to type it out for some peeps to access it easily. As a mom o’ three, the time and space to produce a cutesy food blog is beyond the hours in my day. First off, I’m a white…

We are in a damn pressure cooker. The world is about to pop. Or maybe it’s just the U.S. or Texas or my marriage or maybe it’s just me and I’m completely projecting. …

That sucks for the rest of y’all, but whatevs. I don’t know if y’all heard, but Covid is skipping over the ‘burbs here in Texas. Sure, babe, rumors fly about kids’ classmates’ parents and neighbors of neighbors and idiot college kids. But, it’s biz as yoosh for the rest of…

On reverance and reckoning. In the June 2020 issue of Vanity Fair, the profile of Janelle Monáe was intensely inspiring. Included was this halting passage about Southern plantations: Girard Bush, who cowrote and directed the movie Antebellum with Christopher Renz, in which Monáe stars, says, “It was an incredibly difficult…