One day in 1956 a young woman – me, Irene - answered a classified ad in the New York Times for an East Side apartment. She was currently living in a closet sized room in the Barbizon Hotel for Women, while Jack, her soon to be ex husband, remained in Brooklyn with Rick, their six old son - bei…
Shortly after a deadly tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma which has killed at least 51 people, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) ranted for 15 minutes against Republicans in Tornado Alley for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Whitehouse raved: Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldo…
Months ago, I was caught up in my own world. Trying to find the right path and being patient enough to look for something better. In the moment, I wanted to believe I was right about everything, and to an extent, I still think I'm right. Of course, mistakes were made and I was caught slippin, but no…
We've all been there. Found ourselves in a diaper predicament, no changing table in the restrooms, what to do? Well, the cliff note version of this couple's choice, was to say screw it and changed their baby on the public couch seating area at the local Starbucks. For all to see and potential ge…
(Pleasebe aware that this Podcast Contains strong language) In episode 147 of Janey Godley's podcast the comedymum and daughter discuss the Ohio women who were held hostage and their heroChuck Ramsay. Sylvia Brown the awful psychic gets a verbal booting, Mark Lestergets sperm grilled and the B…
Beloved brothers goodmorning, Glory to YHWH for this newday of life; let’s enjoy it to the fullest, doing what is right, for as we mayall know, YHWH in his grace and mercy loves us and wants all to come to repentanceso we can be saved, but we need to humiliate ourselves, seek his presence andobey hi…
I treat my body fairly poorly. I’m not risky, I don’t deliberately hurt myself, and I’m not morbidly obese. No, I’m just a little bit overweight. And I hate my body. It must hate me back. I don’t feed it what it needs or wants or craves. I, for the past few decades, ha…
A gendered paradox In light of @vanedave's recent post about that basketball player (Jason Collins) coming out as gay to the media, I had a thought I couldn't resolve. Among the flurry of er.... "interesting" things to arise from this, Dave brought up the question of whether or not the straight men…
Getting Crafty I'm not an artsy crafty person, but when I saw a silk floral arrangement marked down to $15, I thought, "I could make that." The daises were on clearance out on the sidewalk in front of the store for 50 cents apiece, the fake fern was a couple of bucks, the bucket was about thr…
