A Faerie waylaid me on the way home from the pub. I was taken into the grasses and lost unto Mankind for what seemed a thousand year or more. When I came home it was still Tuesday. I rushed to youtube to make sure Waterloo Sunset had still been made…

We took our two daughters out for a bit of shopping and ended up piercing their ears. It was that or agree to sitting in a movie theatre for two hours and I would rather eat groundchuck nuts than do that. We were out for a family day. I took…

Get your disgusting sausage-law hands the hell off of our bodies — It was 4am here and I was sleepless so I checked my email. There was one from my mother that I thought would be a description of her new home. Instead, she told me about the leaked draft of a Supreme Court paper about overturning Roe v Wade. For the…

Or: How it feels making my weekly pilgrimage to the only Jewish Deli in my country. The Jewish Virtual Library estimated a Jewish population of 291,000 in 2012, making Britain’s Jewish community the fifth largest in the world. This equates to 0.43% of the population of the United Kingdom. Up…

“Want some orange juice?” “Sure.” said my eight year old daughter as she slid into the breakfast nook. I grabbed the juice carton, it lifted far too quickly and easily. Some m’f’r has put the juice back in the fridge empty. I live with two young girls and an adult…

Searching for a specific translation of Sonnet V by Garcilaso de la Vega. — For decades I have loved Sonnet V by Garcilaso de la Vega. Normally, there would be a little link in his name or with the words “Sonnet V” but I cannot link you over to some horrid translation. Many such abound. Here is the original: “Escrito está en mi alma…

I took the phone back today. I took all the tech away and I am putting my foot wherever it has to go to make this change stick. My daughters are almost 9 and almost 11. Their Dad bought them a phone and a switch (?) …

My mom took me to see Karen Finley when I was young. I think I must have been 10 or 11. It was before my period. We went to the Gailliard Auditorium in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. It was the late 1980s and I was not prepared for what was…