As the holiday fast approaches, I started thinking of how much further from the original meaning this holiday has traveled. Not unlike Christmas, the commercialization of this holiday has traveled a long road. Second only to Christmas in food sales, last year’s sales the week prior to Thanksgiving amounted to 2.8 billion in sales, up… Read More Commercialization of Thanksgiving
The other day, I was doing my daily scroll through Facebook and came across a post that showed an article about the history of the middle finger. Well…of course that caught my interest because I love researching history, especially oddities or origin stories. And what is more fascinating than where profane gestures came from? For… Read More The Middle Finger
I was scrolling through Facebook posts this past week and noticed a friend had achieved a #1 ranking, and I congratulated them on their achievement. The author responded by stating that the ranking was short-lived. I replied that they should take the win because nothing in life is forever. If only I could take that… Read More Marketing Badge
As I was struggling to come up with a blog topic for the day, I decided to scan the news (it’s often where I get my blog ideas). What could be more perfect when Halloween is around the corner than an article talking about National Black Cat Day (which is today). Considering I have two… Read More National Black Cat Day
The other day, I was having a private online conversation with a friend and lamented about my lack of writing. I don’t feel too much pressure to write since 2024 is already planned out for me because of my spinoff trilogy. But lately, I have seriously considered hanging up my pen, so to speak. In… Read More Existential Crisis
I love reading the various news stories, especially the human interest ones that stay far away from politics…or do they? This past week I read an article titled, “Turns Out Most Animals Are Pretty Frickin Gay.” Of course that title caught my eye and I knew I had to blog on it. Given the all-out… Read More Most Mammals Are Pretty F$%king Gay!
The other night I was in bed, trying to fall asleep and like many nights I had the strangest thoughts. Yes, I have insomnia. Anyway, I was thinking about how some of my favorite swear words can be at a minimum both nouns and verbs, and perhaps even derivatives could become adverbs or adjectives as… Read More The Versatile Swear Word
I read an article a few weeks ago about the myth that prevails on a remedy for a sting from a jellyfish and began to wonder about all those myths that unfortunately make it into books, movies, and television shows. I was an avid fan of “Friends” and remember the episode where Joey talked about… Read More Prevailing Myths
I can almost hear my mother rolling in her grave as I write this blog. My mother was a teacher, a very fine teacher. She was also an expert in the English language, even though she taught special education, not English. But Mom had a minor in English and was instrumental in teaching me a… Read More The Grammar Police
I’ve read a lot of Sapphic Novels (probably close to 2,000 by now) and very few of them either feature or even mention Lesbian/Sapphic bars. Not even the ones set back in the eighties when there were a hell of a lot more of them. I remember reading an article a few years back about… Read More Lesbian/Sapphic Bars
Annette Mori 