Category: In Which We Mock Ourselves

So I noticed that my favorite movie, Brief Encounter, and favorite book, Jane Eyre, share a similar theme of People In Love Not Having an Affair. I know Brief Encounter appeals to me because the children are considered in the love triangle. Yet in Jane Eyre, the children are not a consideration: they get left…

Okay, Poor Things did jostle Brief Encounter off my Favorite Movie pedestal, but only briefly, and only because it features a brain-damaged woman with a funny walk who blurts out everything in her head. It was funny, but it was not the hilarious romp that is Brief Encounter. Granted, many people think Brief Encounter is…

I think — with all the rearranging and rethinking — that it’s been at least a year that I’ve read the novel from start to finish. Oh my lord, people. So, so bad. Forget Anne Lamott and her “shitty first draft. ” I’ve got a “shitty fifth draft. “ And it’s obvious stuff. The first…

Let us say that one can only play the guitar like a trained monkey, one has no ear, and no talent, but one has trained oneself to plink out tunes given sheet music without an excessive number of flats and sharps. How long would you say it would take that person to get back to…

Sometimes I get ideas for things to document on the blog, and I make a short post as a draft. I composed this on Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. This week I learned wayr painstkmg askew. As you do. There’s no text in the post to give me any idea what I was thinking about.…

The crows have rejected all the jewelry bits but for one: a silver ball. That one is gone. It was the biggest item in the trove I left last week. I imagine the crows looked at the little pins and staples and said, “Well at least this silver ball isn’t a choking hazard, I will…

I don’t know if they still have this article available free, but I found this deep dive into a writer’s medical diagnosis fascinating. That poor man. I, on the other hand, had the most straightforward MS diagnosis ever. The gastroenterologist got it in two questions. “What are your symptoms / Do you have MS?” (No,…

So we have a new dishwasher. I calculated that a dishwasher can cost almost three times as much as long as it lasts three times longer. (Twenty years, it claims.) I’m also happy to pay extra if it shuts off when water-in does not equal water-out; that way my wood kitchen floor will not warp…

I assembled all the ingredients for my French Onion Soup before I began to cook. Broth, onions, butter, cheese. No bread: skipping the bread/crouton calories. It took me four hours. I had a recipe; I followed the recipe. Only, I didn’t just cook the onions, I caramelized the onions. I added a taste of beef…

These are secrets I have kept from myself. Things I have wondered about that have obvious answers I’ve recently realized. There have been two lately, both minor, but so long delayed that they qualify as self-held secrets. TV Snow. I was afraid of the snow on the TV screen until I was a teenager. In…