brass tacks

With all that’s been happening lately with the DNC, the delegates, the debates, the endless op-eds and platitudes, I wanted to bring up something of which, apparently, many of my peers are unaware.
4 amendments and 50 years separate the right for women’s suffrage and that of all men, regardless of race, to vote.
The fourteenth amendment was ratified [...]

things to do on a rainy day

that is if you’re an enormous nerd like me.
1.  Watch a Lifetime movie starring Jenna Elfman as a woman obsessed with a surgeon who has invented an entire relationship in her head (as well as a gauzily-lit psychiatrist and a contempt of court-prone journalist).  Best line from the court-appointed psychiatrist: “she has seven of the [...]

excellent things about today

1.  i woke up to the sound of the mediterranean lapping against the pier of my hotel in juan les pins on the cote d’azur.
2.  my co-worker colin drove me to the airport and asked me if i’d had my “brekkies.”
3.  my flight into munich was late, causing me to miss my connection, but this afforded [...]