This week's sporkful

My sisters and I continue going through various television shows in order. We recently started  Modern Family  after finishing  The Big Bang...

This post may seem like mean-spirited gossip. I am aware, but I think it may be useful for some other things I want to explore next week. Wh...

I haven't posted a single thing about Gavin Newsom before.  I have wanted to respond to a few posts, which would probably really irritat...

I see a lot of scolding on the internet lately: You are wrong for that! In the interests of full disclosure, while my blog focuses more on h...

When I was a kid I used to conflate 50s and 60s music, lumping 20 years' worth of music together.  As I work on this, the distinctions a...

On August 5th the US Department of Health and Human Services announced it would wind down mRNA vaccine research, terminating 22 contracts. h...

One of the most frustrating thing about this time politically is knowing that there are people who chose it and are gleeful about it. Yes, t...

I know a few people who have cataracts they need removed. One of them is actually getting it scheduled now; that is going to take 7 - 8 mont...

There was an interesting Twitter post today from @KevOnStage: People who grew up poor. What’s something you STILL do that you can 100% attri...

Based on the subject matter, maybe that should be a primal scream, but it is really more of a Charlie Brown scream. Maybe I should have said...

I wrote about science -related reading in June, mentioning that there were other books that were more environmental, but they had been going...

I put a note on the original post, but since writing about Sydney Sweeney and jeans , Rachel Bitecofer has called her a "butterface...

I'm apologizing in advance because this post has a lot of quote marks. It feels excessive, but is a combination of some wordplay and tha...

I saw that July was Disability Pride Month on July 1st and had to do it. So, I started with Judith Heumann, whose book is on my to-read li...