That Ol’Boy’s Club Ain’t What It Used To Be

To be a witness to history, to sit in one’s armchair and watch those monumental moments unfold before your very eyes are rare, though, admittedly, in today’s chaotic daily 3-ring circus that fact is sometimes lost, as we all bear witness to this difficult transition between an America that was, and the America that will be. Those fault lines, between diversity, about race, religion, creed, urban … Continue reading That Ol’Boy’s Club Ain’t What It Used To Be

Mad Men In Suits? I’ll Take Menopause, Thanx

Bit more honesty here, but when I first heard of these allegations that were made against Kavanaugh, when they were still anonymous, of something that had happened when he was a teenager, I admit, I was like, ok, this seems a bit suspicious.  Riding to work that day I thought of nothing else, going through it in my mind, of what I thought, and why, and … Continue reading Mad Men In Suits? I’ll Take Menopause, Thanx

Around The Corner From Where He Grew Up

That photograph of her, standing against that background of wood veneer, in her dark blue suit, blond hair, black-rimmed glasses, hand raised, eyes closed. It is seared, and every time I’ve come across it this morning it has stopped me cold. It is the very picture of bravery, for me, that photo is the very essence of it. Facing them, dredging up memories of some … Continue reading Around The Corner From Where He Grew Up

The Gentlemen Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks

Dear gawd, it’s like they’ve all gone completely bonkers, and Lindsey dear, this is YOUR circus, and those are YOUR monkeys.  A spectacle to behold, hissy fits at one another’s audacity to be sitting across from one another all day,  fixed in a pitched battle, red swollen jowls quivering in ire and privilege.  Yet, it is a heated thing, this he said, she said, and … Continue reading The Gentlemen Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks