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When The World Ends

Grandma — not a fan of apocalyptic fiction — used to say “The world ends once for each of us.”

I only wish she was right.

The world has ended several times for me now, and then… I pick up my boots and build it again. (Note I’m sleepy and still weird-jet-like-lagged enough I almost typed “pick up my boobs.)

Look, the world ended for me when I left the village to go to high school in the city. It was a different world, and my past assumptions no longer applied. Then I became an excha...

From Afar

They say death and distance dress people in their most winning smile. I’m not dead and neither country is dead, but from afar, looking back, it’s weird what stands out.

I could and would have deeper thoughts on this if I were here for longer — which pray G-d I will not be for more than a few days more — and I’m sure if I were forced to return — again, pray G-d and make obsequies this never happens — my view of America from here would evolve and evolve again, and now one aspect and then a...

Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

Book Promo

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The Other Stuff on the Ballot

By Holly the Assistant

Yes, there’s a Presidential Election.

But who and what else is on your ballot? Have you looked yet? Figured out who is running for those down-ballot races and how crooked they are? What that deceptively worded proposition actually means? This is where a lot of the shaping of how this country runs happens: if you liked your governor stepping up to support Texas, your Attorney General filing that lawsuit or amicus curiae brief, your county commissioners telling tha...

Sunrise, sunset

When did she grow to be a beauty? When did he grow to be so tall?

Wasn’t it yesterday when they were small?

I don’t remember growing older. When did they?

Take These Unbroken Memes And Learn To Fly

Huns Helene Soundoff

From the Assistant, since apparently WordPress doesn’t show y’all who made the post.

We were very glad to hear from RES yesterday in comments, and would like very much to hear from the other Huns and Hoydens that everyone is all right, as time, and internet and electricity access permit.

She left me in charge!

Well, hold onto your hats, Huns and Hoydens.

First off, a brief housekeeping note. Some of y’all are really tasty according to WordPress, and it keeps tossing you in spam, or scary and it throws you in trash. If I am sure I recognize the handle, I’ll fish you out. If I am not sure I recognize the handle, the usual procedure is to ping our hostess with “Hey is so-n-so okay?” and she goes and looks. Since she’s a bit away right now, newcomers or very occasional posters will be languishing a...

Our Yuge Country

As usual when I’m away from home, particularly in Europe, I’m…. Uh…. At the rate my Americanness and libertarianism are intensifying, I won’t need a plane to fly back. I’ll call an eagle to me through utter, intensity of my love for the Constitution, and it will then fly me home.

I’ve been trying to be good and behave, because we’re guests, but the country makes me itch inside my skin, and the level of governmental interference in every day life is a thing we not only don’t imagine but ca...

Further Notes On Ethnographic collection

Or why Spanish, like birds, isn’t real. Or it’s entirely possible that not having slept in close on to 48 hours I’m tripping…. but…..

Hey guys?

What’s wrong with Spain? No seriously?

I grew up thinking of them as Portugal’s more forceful and organized brother but I just flew to Portugal via Madrid, and something has gone seriously wrong with that country.

Portugal isn’t very organized. I’m used to that. It took them close to two hours to locate the rental car we’d reserved, and...