As y’all know, I am an H.P Lovecraft fan. He is the father (Edgar Allen Poe is the grandfather) of the modern horror genre and he rocked it. One of Lovecraft’s most famous monsters, one beloved by geeks like me, is Cthulhu. As with anything beloved, parodies about it spring up like mushroom after it… Read more Parody: why choose the lesser evil?
From a politically conservative and wonderful friend of mine. I was raised in what I’ve always called a southern military conservative household. All four of my grandparents, and therefore my parents, are from Kentucky. My father was military. His father was military. I married military. I was baptized, raised, and married in the United… Read more Guest Post On Marriage Equality
I wanted to have a nice celebration blog about the SCOTUS legalizing marriage for all citizens, but world events have put a kibosh on that. Monsters and madmen acting on behalf of Daesh have indulged in three terrorist attacks, including two mass murders, in the last 24 hours and I feel compelled to talk about… Read more Daesh Terrorist Attacks in Kuwait, France, and Tunisia
I have a good friend in great distress. Her sister’s ex-husband and his new wife, whom I shall call Nimrod and Bandersnatch, have decided to fat-shame and torment my friend’s niece because they think she is ‘out of shape’. The little girl is only ten years old. Although she is not overweight or obese in… Read more Fat Shaming Preteen Girls Harms Them For Life
Amy Licence and I invite proposals for papers to be included in a multidisciplinary edited volume entitled Envisioning the Tudor Woman: Historical and Modern Representations of Women from the Tudor Era. Please submit a proposal before July 1 2015; the final deadline for complete essays will be December 1, 2015. Papers must be between 4000… Read more Submissions for Envisioning the Tudor Woman
My eldest daughter, Bubbles, will be entering the 5th grade this August and we have been reading up on social interaction and Asperger’s syndrome in preparation for preteen ‘drama’, conflict, or bullying. It has led me to some fascinating information. People with Asperger’s syndrome are typically very direct. We don’t do (or even know how… Read more Conflict Aversion, Assertion, Aggression and Asperger’s
Jesus wept. As I am sure most of you know, a 21 year old white man named Dylann Storm Roof attended a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina and after an hour he started shooting members of the historically black church, killing nine of them. A survivor reported… Read more On Hate Crimes and Denial of Racism
*SPOILERS for Game of Thrones* Today is Henry Fitzroy’s birthday, and if he were alive he’d be 496 years young. Sadly, the king’s baseborn child with Bessie Blount passed away at the tender age of 17. Fitzroy was actually being eyed as a potential heir to the throne, illegitimate or not. Henry had recently declared… Read more Happy Birthday to Henry Fitzroy
A lady by the name of Della Curry was recently fired from her job kitchen manager at an Aurora, Colorado, elementary school. Why? She was giving hungry kids food instead of pitching it into the trash when the kids didn’t have the money to pay for it: “I was let go for not charging for… Read more Della Curry–A Good Human Being
I had this conversation with my 10 year old daughter the other day. Her: Mom, when will I be old enough to have a phone? Me: When you are 30. Her: Mooooooooommmmmm! Be serious! Me: How old do you think you should be? Her: *ponders* I think I should get a phone when I am… Read more Now, I feel old