Category: Before I returned to school … (archive)

  • That Time YouTube Thought I Was a Racist …

    That Time YouTube Thought I Was a Racist …

    Friday. I’m working on a how-to guide for a client, which means I’m poring over a dozen or so homegrown videos that their underpaid and over exploited college-student staff created. The videos are usually pretty dreadful, although this batch isn’t as bad as most, which makes me wonder if they brought in outside help. Really…

  • Equal rights call for equal sarcasm

    Rebuttal letter to the editor. Honestly I had no idea how to address this guy’s archaic notions of women’s position in society so I went for sarcasm. You can read the original letter (the one I’m rebutting) by clicking the link in the text below. I could not agree more with the sentiment behind James…

  • When the best words are 4-lettered (and your mom doesn’t approve)

    My mother called me a few weeks ago to tell me she didn’t like the language used in a link I shared via Facebook yesterday. I believe her comments included “shocked” and “what would HER friends and relatives think?” Mind you, I’m 50 years old and connected to very few of her friends and relatives.…

  • Ignorant son of a …

    My son is a slacker. I’m not sure if that’s because he’s a boy or if it’s because he’s 14 or if it’s because of something we did wrong when raising him, but he’s always been this way. So last night, about 30 minute before I’d normally freak out about him not being in bed,…

  • You can have it all – but what are you going to do with it?

    I realize now that I don’t want it all. Because if I had it all, I wouldn’t have time to do anything with it anyway. And I’m serious about this. It’s just impossible as a woman or as any thinking, breathing, feeling human to have everything and do the right thing with all of it.…

  • Why think?

    “… This whole thing is just a symptom of a larger problem: There’s a growing anti-intellectual strain in this country, and it may be the beginning of the end of our informed democracy,” Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the Nightly Show, January 26, 2016. We’re talking – my husband and I – about carbohydrates the other day…

  • 3 things people hate (a.k.a., what I learned this week)

    Gotta love it when you learn something new.  This week, I learned three new things that people hate. Here they are. Carbohydrates. Really, when I started looking into this, a slice of toast in hand, I felt painfully out of touch. But it turns out that carbohydrates are the root of all evil. Headaches? Overweight?…