ETringali
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I know the top five reasons that the world is a mess. she/her Former English and Theater teacher and current commenter on writing, theater, absurdity of modern life.
Besides the tone deafness of having a lavish party during a govt shutdown, I can't stop thinking about the "Gatsby" theme. I mean, did they even know what that book is about? Was there a valley of ashes? A dead body in the pool at the end? Or are they celebrating their own carelessness?
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Besides the tone deafness of having a lavish party during a govt shutdown, I can't stop thinking about the "Gatsby" theme. I mean, did they even know what that book is about? Was there a valley of ashes? A dead body in the pool at the end? Or are they celebrating their own carelessness?
If you express your excitement by writing "Squee!!" please express your excitement somewhere I'm not.
October 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
If you express your excitement by writing "Squee!!" please express your excitement somewhere I'm not.
Not surprising to me! Just another way reading makes you better!
In case you needed another reason to pick up your favourite book.
Readers May Be Healthier, More Empathetic, And Even More Attractive, Science Says
In case you needed another reason to pick up your favourite book.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Not surprising to me! Just another way reading makes you better!
Probably very unpopular opinion, but I wish everyone who spent lot of $ on pumpkins and Halloween decor would take 1/10 of that money and give it to some cause for helping people such as food banks, cancer cures, homelessness, or voting rights.
October 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Probably very unpopular opinion, but I wish everyone who spent lot of $ on pumpkins and Halloween decor would take 1/10 of that money and give it to some cause for helping people such as food banks, cancer cures, homelessness, or voting rights.
72 Hour film fest Frederick was especially great this year because it featured MANY of my former students! So great to see so many I knew were great being great!
October 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
72 Hour film fest Frederick was especially great this year because it featured MANY of my former students! So great to see so many I knew were great being great!
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Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
October 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Tech wythout heart ys harmful.
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.
We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:
H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
My husband’s shoelaces came with this handy installation guide and frankly, I’m glad. How would we ever have managed without it?
September 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
My husband’s shoelaces came with this handy installation guide and frankly, I’m glad. How would we ever have managed without it?
Distracting Cats, Day 3:00. Oliver's nocturnal activities include moving things to the living room: used dryer balls, sponges, and the stopper for the guest bathroom tub. I had not included those items in my design plan for the room, but he has other ideas. Here he is, planning his next move.
September 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Distracting Cats, Day 3:00. Oliver's nocturnal activities include moving things to the living room: used dryer balls, sponges, and the stopper for the guest bathroom tub. I had not included those items in my design plan for the room, but he has other ideas. Here he is, planning his next move.
The news of the world being what it is, I'm glad to have Stanley, the distracting cat, to help me to focus on him and his quest to include more vegetables in his diet.
September 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The news of the world being what it is, I'm glad to have Stanley, the distracting cat, to help me to focus on him and his quest to include more vegetables in his diet.
Notice from a website this morning: "An unhandled error has occurred..." - an apt expression of our political situation at this moment.
August 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Notice from a website this morning: "An unhandled error has occurred..." - an apt expression of our political situation at this moment.
My reading this morning included pieces that used words like "lamasery" and "haboob" so I'm full of word joy already.
August 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
My reading this morning included pieces that used words like "lamasery" and "haboob" so I'm full of word joy already.
Distracting Cats, Day 89? Not Stanley helping me put away groceries but knocking over a box of blueberries and then getting Ollie to bat them around as if I bought them new cat toys! Still running down rogue blueberries on the kitchen floor...
July 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Distracting Cats, Day 89? Not Stanley helping me put away groceries but knocking over a box of blueberries and then getting Ollie to bat them around as if I bought them new cat toys! Still running down rogue blueberries on the kitchen floor...
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Poetrye ys the technologye of hope
July 22, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Poetrye ys the technologye of hope
trying to remember my love for my fellow man while listening to someone in the train seat behind me snort, cough and very audibly clear what sounds like a sewer of a sinus system every 20 seconds.
July 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
trying to remember my love for my fellow man while listening to someone in the train seat behind me snort, cough and very audibly clear what sounds like a sewer of a sinus system every 20 seconds.
MET visit follow up post: Saw Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibit, and NO ONE was being obnoxious with a phone, AND the exhibit was beyond superfine, especially if you like beautiful tailoring, expressive clothing, really interesting ideas about identity, freedom, resistance, self-expression.
July 18, 2025 at 1:36 AM
MET visit follow up post: Saw Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibit, and NO ONE was being obnoxious with a phone, AND the exhibit was beyond superfine, especially if you like beautiful tailoring, expressive clothing, really interesting ideas about identity, freedom, resistance, self-expression.
At the MET, seeing John Singer Sargent exhibit, hugely annoyed by people who, cellphones up, took pictures of the art, multiple photos, making it challenging to actually see art. If there's a good reason for taking photos of art work in a gallery rather than just looking at it, I'd like to know.
July 18, 2025 at 1:30 AM
At the MET, seeing John Singer Sargent exhibit, hugely annoyed by people who, cellphones up, took pictures of the art, multiple photos, making it challenging to actually see art. If there's a good reason for taking photos of art work in a gallery rather than just looking at it, I'd like to know.
Distracting cat behavior log, Day #? I've lost track of the days and now, I seem to have lost control of a rubber duck, one of my grandchildren's bathtub toys which mysteriously appeared downstairs. Stanley and Oliver are my main suspects as Nick has no real interest in rubber ducks.
July 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Distracting cat behavior log, Day #? I've lost track of the days and now, I seem to have lost control of a rubber duck, one of my grandchildren's bathtub toys which mysteriously appeared downstairs. Stanley and Oliver are my main suspects as Nick has no real interest in rubber ducks.
I have much bigger worries than this, but I have several acquaintances who begin questions with "Wait-" and I guess that's an expression, but I don't like being told to wait when I'm supposed to answer.
July 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I have much bigger worries than this, but I have several acquaintances who begin questions with "Wait-" and I guess that's an expression, but I don't like being told to wait when I'm supposed to answer.
If you have gone to the trouble to pre-unrolled toilet paper and you have unrolled too much, should you put some on the kitchen floor? Stanley thinks so. Then you should sit in a punch bowl.
June 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
If you have gone to the trouble to pre-unrolled toilet paper and you have unrolled too much, should you put some on the kitchen floor? Stanley thinks so. Then you should sit in a punch bowl.
According to a WaPo writer, the upcoming heat will be "bruising." Later in the same article, the writer adds that "intense, soupy heat will bake the region." I know it's too hot for all these mixed metaphors.
June 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
According to a WaPo writer, the upcoming heat will be "bruising." Later in the same article, the writer adds that "intense, soupy heat will bake the region." I know it's too hot for all these mixed metaphors.
When you've spent a few days with some family members, subduing your own snarky thoughts, and you're ready to write like Eugene O'Neill, it's time to go home.
June 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
When you've spent a few days with some family members, subduing your own snarky thoughts, and you're ready to write like Eugene O'Neill, it's time to go home.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Distracting cat behavior log, Day 2: This episode features Stanley and his partner in crime, Oliver, as they attempt to stop ANY AND ALL fabric cutting by whatever means necessary.
June 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Distracting cat behavior log, Day 2: This episode features Stanley and his partner in crime, Oliver, as they attempt to stop ANY AND ALL fabric cutting by whatever means necessary.
Distracting cat behavior log, Day 1: Stanley keeps taking my tweezers; he holds them in his mouth and runs out of the bathroom with them, forcing me to hunt for them in other parts of the upstairs. Here he is, in repose, resting from his depredations.
June 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Distracting cat behavior log, Day 1: Stanley keeps taking my tweezers; he holds them in his mouth and runs out of the bathroom with them, forcing me to hunt for them in other parts of the upstairs. Here he is, in repose, resting from his depredations.
Just when I think I spent a lot of time teaching literature in vain, a former student contacts me to ask which translation of Camus' The Stranger is best. It's a good day!
April 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Just when I think I spent a lot of time teaching literature in vain, a former student contacts me to ask which translation of Camus' The Stranger is best. It's a good day!