Mixed Moss

I grew up in the country. In my “neighborhood” was a beef farm, a pig farm, corn fields, soybean fields, horses…you get the idea. I was in 4-H for ten years. I learned to milk goats and shoot a gun. I won prizes at the county fair and even the state fair.
None of this stopped […]

A woman from Colorado once told me that she can always tell what direction she’s headed by the mountains. That they are not only a visual reference, but also have an almost magnetic presense, gifting people who live with them a sixth sense– a sense of direction. God is like that for me. Trouble is, […]

A lovely friend of mine is moving to another country on Thursday. I’ve known it was coming for months, but this evening I went over to see her (we had a going-away party) and she gave me her plants and her curling iron, as she won’t need it where she’s going. It made me cry […]

The other day I shut my eyes and this is what I saw.
Imagine a polygon with equilateral sides. How many sides, you ask? X number of sides; we don’t know yet. Now imagine that you are going to hold the area inside the polygon constant. Now, you are going to change the number of sides […]

Ok. So I was happy about the OSU game, and I didn’t even attend school there. That was just state-wide joy bubbling over the OSU pot and sweeping over me.
So imagine how I feel about my Alma Mater, the University of Cincinnati, at the moment.
We just upset number 6 ranked and undefeated Rutgers, 30-11! Talk […]

This is it. The biggest game of the year. More important than the Superbowl. More significant than the Rose Bowl. Today is the day when Ohio State plays Michigan. And not only that, but this year both teams are undefeated. OSU is ranked #1. Michigan is ranked #2. Both teams have played terrible games this […]

Tonight I ruined dinner.
The dairy in my chowder separated– no idea why, because there wasn’t anything acidic and it didn’t start to boil– and then to top matters off, I burned the grilled cheese! The irony is that I’mso proud of my soups. I love creating new recipes.
Woe is me, Lol! Maybe I’ll go order […]

Today, after running errands and submitting resumes, I went to the coffee shop ostensibly to write while waiting for a kid I tutor to show up. I allowed myself plenty of time. I brought my favorite ball-point. I had a n otebook, as well as a large supply of napkins (since everybody knows that the […]

So I’ve just finished reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. And, despite the (unpromising) first three hundred (!) pages, I ended by really liking it a lot. Why? Because of how it shows the physical world hanging like a curtain in front of the spiritual or “magical” world, and versa vice. Because of how it […]

At 5:30pm this evening I got a call from my mother to tell me that the girl in this article is a childhood friend of mine. She is the sweetest little girl you’ll ever meet. And I wish I could hunt this guy down and cut his penis off. But all I can do is […]