This week's sporkful

Happy Halloween! I am not really doing a lot for it this year.  There is some themed reading, but I am not visiting a lot of attractions, or...

I had been thinking of this section of the reading as TERF month and counter-programming, except that seems to focus on the worst part of it...

I wrote For now , last Tuesday's post, the night before.  I usually try to write ahead anyway; I believe it increases the quality and I ...

Next Friday I will post about the most recently completed reading "month".  As I was starting it, it occurred to me that I should ...

When I posted "A Cheerful Receiver" there was a bigger question behind it. I was hinting at it, but I hadn't resolved it ove...

I was not going to write about this one. Episode 5 of Season 3, "The Election" is set on Election Day 1976, when Americans chose J...

I think a lot about being connected more. One of the ideas came about when we were in San Diego. My sisters were noticing that you don't...

It is hard to pick a favorite episode, but this one -- episode 15 of season 6 -- is right near the top. Part of that is our love for Marty a...

If asking to be paid for work was hard, simply receiving has its own difficulty. Technically I have been poor since 2016. That was when I wa...

One sisterly project has been watching or re-watching classic television on DVDs so there are no parts missing. I use "classic" to...

I don't like asking for things in general. I'm sure some of that is feminine socialization. More of it might be the specific inferio...

I do still like periodically exploring songs by decade. I do still remember some of these songs from back when they were new.  Some of these...

The post title is also the title of Episode 12 of Designing Women Season 4, when some missed child support payments reduce Mary Jo to worki...

Honestly, I find it hard to believe that I wrote all of those Black Music Month 2023 posts and completely ignored two books about "Yard...

The insight mentioned in the previous post would not have happened without conversations with my sisters. We have gotten better at this, th...

It all started when my sister noticed a new exhibit : "Celebrating Birds of the Pacific Northwest", at the Oregon Historical Socie...

Getting back to CODA ... the title is an acronym for child of deaf adults. These particular adults have two children, a son who is also deaf...

I can't help but feel like using that "final thoughts" is setting me up to have subsequent thoughts.  As it is, there are thin...

This one is going to be harder to explain. I may have to spread it out over multiple posts. I think I mentioned earlier this series of dream...

Let me start by saying that even though in last week's post  I said I would probably have to give up on those last two movies for now, I...