Please take a look at the ways the host of The Late Show with Seth Meyers has adapted to the lockdown much better than the host of A Late Night Show with Stephen Colbert. This is my latest Medium.com story: Seth Meyers is THE Quarantine Late Night Host.
In his Medium.com story Ninety Thousand Dead and Counting, Umair Haque points out that Americans don't seem to care how many Americans are dying of COVID-19. He writes that other countries tend to keep careful watch of how many deaths their governments cause, whether...
I posted on Facebook that I keep starting movies and abandoning them, never to return and finish, and my friend Jane called it "Covid movie fatigue." Is this a thing? Do others have this? Maybe the Medium audience can answer me in the comment section of It's Very Hard...
I suspect some white Americans might think they're honoring Mexican culture by having cinco de mayo parties, but they're not. Cinco de mayo has become another American-appropriated holiday that isn't really celebrated in its country of origin. If you want to celebrate...
My latest Medium published story is called The U.S. is 244 years of hatred. In it I write about how much many Americans hate people of color, which I'm reminded of as I imagine how many white supremacists must feel just fine about COVID-19 killing more Blacks and...
Previous post on the coronavirus: Last dash to the store - a photo essay My NRT practitioner has a homeoprophylaxis (HP) for the novel coronavirus. If you've heard of homeopathy, you know those remedies help the body heal a disease or condition by introducing a...
My screenshot of the YouTube video of WBUR's January interview of Jeanine Cummins My review of American Dirt got more social media attention than any other post I've written in the 15 years and nine months I've been writing this blog. Since then I've read lots of...
Previous post on food & weight: The science-defying, middle-aged female body! You might not be able to read this article called A call to action: your fat friend is going it alone. Medium.com is a membership website of curated articles written by people who have...
Hey, everybody: today is National Grammar Day! I love this day because I love grammar. Let's all recognize National Grammar Day by using GRAMMAR. How 'bout it?
If you want good Mexican American writers, you can start here.
No. It’s not a good book club book.
Hey, since I stopped buying things on Amazon.com I've reduced my spending and started getting out of my apartment more. I didn't foresee that not getting things from that website would cause me to get more exercise, but duh: if I have to leave my home and go to a...
Newly severed from Amazon.com, I actually left my apartment and went out to shop on Black Friday. It had been years since I'd done that. Physically, it was as vaguely uncomfortable as I remembered, but I am a woman in her 50's and it felt right to join my peers....
I have dearly loved Amazon.com. My relationship with it began in 2002 when I ordered John Lithgow's CD, Singin' in the Bathtub. A few books and CDs were the only items I got from Amazon.com for years, but since 2012, I've been a happy Amazon Prime member who has spent...