This week's sporkful

We all know that 2020 has been a year marked by trouble and disappointment. Recently something reminded me of the Blues Festival. Obviousl...

Obviously I am not thrilled with my performance, but at times it is miraculous that I get anything done. Anyway, I have finished the secon...

When we were only dealing with COVID-19, and people longed for a return to normalcy, I was thinking about how normal had not really been tha...

Yesterday's post included ways of dealing with feelings of being overwhelmed. As an empathetic person, a caregiver, and possibly someone...

When I was a little girl - about 5 to 7 years old - mentions of infinity and eternity would freak me out enough to make my stomach hurt. At ...

I have been blogging more than it looks, because I have revived the travel and preparedness blog. It does feel good to be able to do at le...

I had initially thought there would be a third post this week about how primaries need to be changed and how we need to banish our inner rac...

I wanted to spend some time going over the weight that I give the Biden allegations and why. I'll start right out by telling you that th...

It is possible that Joe Biden raped Tara Reade. It is very discouraging how badly people are handling that. Calls for firing  Chris Hayes ...

I did the Facebook postings in the order in which they came into my life, at least to the extent that I remembered it correctly. That was no...

For the last nine days I have been posting albums that influenced me on Facebook. The original assignment was for ten, so I will finish tomo...

All right; now for things coming back to me. This is a much messier story. The short version is that a girl that I had helped several ye...

I am changing the order in which I am writing these. So the part about something coming back to me? Not before tomorrow. I think it was th...

I want to write a little about some interactions that I have had - mostly before social distancing started - and things that they have meant...

One way my brain works is that a word or phrase will come to me repeatedly, trying to tell me something. Someday I will write about "ga...

Still keeping things short and light this week. Easter was not typical. There was no church - and while it is not the best Sunday activity...

There are many ways in which people are horrible, and I am sure I will get to those. Today I wanted to focus on some helpful acts that have ...

On March 22nd, James Dewees of Reggie and the Full Effect released a complete version of the 2008 album, Last Stop: Crappy Town . It include...

In yesterday's post I mentioned mass graves and backed up funeral homes. I have only heard of mass graves in New York. The backed up fun...

One of the frustrating parts of my mother's deterioration is doing one recommended thing and then finding that it is not enough. For e...