Archive for February, 2014

WTF Friday: People Are Weird.

February 13th, 2014

On a hot summer day in 1518, Frau Troffea started dancing and couldn’t stop. By the end of the month, 400 people had joined her, some of them dropping dead of heart failure, heat stroke, and exhaustion.
There were no sexy slow dances, and no punch bowls filled with melting ice and limp, Sangria-flavored oranges. [...]

Empty Outrage: Suleman, Child Abuse & A Controversial Bill of Rights

February 12th, 2014

A great deal of media attention has been paid to Nadya Suleman, the recent mother of octuplets by IVF.  The general consensus is that there’s something wrong with an unemployed mother of six choosing to have eight more children.  News pundits, psychologists, and the public have speculated about Suleman’s mental health, her motives, and [...]

I Just Heard the News

February 8th, 2014

UPDATE:
Mackenzie Lynn Devin was born three weeks early, at 1:17 a.m. on 2/09/09. Weighing in at 5 lbs., 4 ozs, she has a dimple in her chin, dark hair, and a perfect Apgar score of 10.  Her cry was sung with perfect pitch, and she stubbornly kept trying to keep her eyes open to check [...]

I Love to Write but Hate Blogging

February 8th, 2014

*/begin Rant*
My birthday is almost here.  March 30th for those of you that would like to send me coffee, batteries,  lightbulbs, or a Mac computer.  Just saying.  I’ll be 47.  That’s getting to be too old for frustration, especially with menopause threatening to sneak up on me at any minute.  Frustration annoys me now.  Hot [...]