For centuries we have assigned bad luck to the number thirteen – triskaidekaphobia – and especially Friday’s that fall on the 13th of the month – paraskevidekatriaphobia. (Which doesn’t happen statistically any more than the 13th being on any other day according to Wiki, but makes a darn catchy tune. Yes, I had to look…
Month: May 2016
Complicity of Evil
I thought about so many things I could write about today (Thursday is my day in the barrel to write thoughtfully about topics that will hopefully interest you, dear readers) – there was a kernel of an idea about the state of the weeds in my garden that are the bane of my current existence,…
When In Doubt, Frolic
I have serious Spring Fever. I’m not sure where it came from or how and when I was infected, but it has suddenly hit me full force. It’s not that we here in the Northeast had suffered through a particularly bad winter – certainly nothing like the winter of 2014-15 – but brutal or no,…
Derby Day Redux
Can you feel the excitement in the air? Well, I can! It’s time, once again, to dig out the hats and blow the dust out of the julep cups! Today marks the 142nd annual running of The Kentucky Derby, the first, and most venerable, jewel in thoroughbred horse racing’s Triple Crown. I look forward to…
Outlandish Mother’s Love
“Mom, I want to watch it with you.” I hung my head in torment. The fruit of my looms had just asked me to NOT watch ANY of Season 2 without her. Instantly I became a mathematical savant calculating the days, hours and minutes between the premier on April 9th and her scheduled homecoming the…
Cake By The Ocean
I’ve spent way too much time on this. I hear a catchy song, it sets a tiny hook in my brain – I don’t even know the lyrics, just that I pick up a line of chorus and it becomes my earworm for the foreseeable future. Then I saw it performed on The Voice this…
Why Be Normal?
Google is a wonderful thing. I don’t know any of the technical magic behind it, but the braintrust responsible for it has managed to cull together a huge chunk of the world’s collected knowledge . As someone who used to read the dictionary and various volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica for fun (Nerd alert!), I…