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Scars

I spent the morning outside today, clearing the vegetable beds (meant to get it done last fall, but it never happened) and putting in the seedlings: squash of various kinds, cucumber, tomatoes. (This was probably inadvisable because I woke up yesterday with an ear infection. Better today. Hopefully the exertion doesn’t make it worse again, but it had to be done, because there’s a timing for these things.)

Before this year, I’ve had vegetable gardens three times. Once in NC pre-kids, and o...

Hanging’s Too Good by Holly Chism

Hanging’s Too Good by Holly Chism

In 2015, right at the beginning of the year, I was having a meal. I got half choked when I had a sudden sneeze attack, and inhaled a bit of rice. 

The rice…didn’t come out while I was trying to hack up a lung.  And I developed pneumonia from it.  I was laid out with the pneumonia for about six weeks, even after I’d had the antibiotics to clear it out.  Yeah it took that much out of me. 

Toward the end of February of the same year, the kids brought h...

Meme Like There’s No Tomorrow!

The Great Breakdown

It is time once more to talk about how things go down the tubes. How the proverbial excrement hits the proverbial rotating object. How the center cannot hold.

There are two proximate reasons for it. The first is that my husband, the apolitical one, as we’re considering a new-to-us car was tying himself in knots about a car that could be adapted to run on fuels of convenience, like fry-oil, say. When I realized this was his source of confusion, I got confused. “Do you have some reason to ...

The Small Subtle Poisons

Imagine you were a crazy person who actually believes all the statistics that are collected, as well as books written by alarmist idiots (rich alarmist idiots, mind you) like Paul Ehrlich are G-d’s holy writ, handed down from mount infallible to your tiny little mind.

And imagine this is around the fifties, and you look around all these families with four and five kids a piece, and you think this means there is a population bomb and ahrgle bargle, gasoline gargle, you’re all going to diii...

A Coffee For All Seasons

Okay, my first question is: What were they thinking? No, seriously, what were they thinking?

Yes, I know why they named it The Brain Coffee, and it ties to one of their epic tales, as usual, but obviously this should have been 4 season coffee.

Why? Well, let me explain. King Harv’s sent me a testing package of Brain Coffee. This was useful, as at the moment for some reason, my body decided I don’t need to sleep anymore, and between insomnia and nightmares, I have considered in fact d...

The Quest for Motherhood

I have a friend who is going through something terrible. I’m going to give her history, even though she is not the main subject of this post, just the jumping off point. And also because she needs help and is one of the most terrible people at ASKING for help, because she’s so mortally embarrassed about the whole thing.

I first “met” her online (though I’ve met her several times now) when Darkship Thieves came out. Which I think –though I could be wrong– is when she found me. Weirdly, s...

The Madness of the Marxists

It is said that those whom the gods love they destroy. And those whom the gods destroy they first drive mad.

Abstract the gods from it, and it makes perfect sense. The favored ones in any society, favored to the level of “no consequences” are driven mad and ultimately destroyed. This is part of the reason the left is how it is. For 100 years, partly because of the cultural overstructure, facilitated by mass communication with easy choke points, solidified in place by FDR though it started...

Live Free And Meme

Lying To The Young, a blast from the past from 5/1/2015

*An Announcement: Matthew, who comments here, has started a tube of you channel in which he posts this blog turned to AI voice. He thinks this will appeal to people who want to LISTEN to posts, like while driving or cleaning, or any other time you feel a need to hear my often inane words. Full disclosure: Though the idea was his, if this works out (And tube of yous doesn’t ban it) I will derive some profit from this venture as will he. This is the link.* – SAH.

Lying To The Young, a blast...