I love a good card game! My dad taught me to play Solitaire (with real cards, not on the computer, because…well…I’m on the elderly side of Generation X) when I was about 7 years old. In high school, we’d play Hearts and Uno in the school cafeteria at lunch time. When I got to college, … Continue reading
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Your Belief System is for You
Depending upon the sources used, I can be classified as either a very young Baby Boomer or a rather elderly member of Generation X, and this probably accounts that I arrived rather late to the online party known as TikTok. However, in the wake of the positively horrifying outcome of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, … Continue reading
Please Don’t Revoke My Black Card
For those who are not aware of the intricacies of African American culture, you might be confused when you hear Black Americans talking about “revoking someone’s black card.” The “black card” is not to be confused with the “race card,” but instead represents a set of behaviors that are (often stereotypically) that can cement a … Continue reading
I Feel Like a Plain-Bellied Sneetch
While there are many reasons throughout my life for my feeling like the proverbial “fish out of water” one of the more interesting is the fact that I was born on the cusp of two wildly disparate generational cohorts. While I am technically a Baby Boomer, I only qualify by mere months. As a result, … Continue reading
Thank You, Mr. Obvious
The Quora Chronicles – Part 3 Some years ago, when my life as a “Dilbertesque” cubicle dweller still included a long daily commute to the office, on thing that made the morning drive bearable was listening to The Bob and Tom Show on the car radio. Their irreverant, some might even argue, tasteless, brand of … Continue reading
A Different Kind of “Christmas Cheer
I love my job! Since 2011, when I left the corporate world to become a teacher of English as a Second Language, I have probably learned as much or perhaps more from my students as they have learned from me. In addition to learning the language, many immigrants to the United States are also anxious … Continue reading
The Quora Chronicles – Part 1
Sometimes, when I’m either bored or simply a victim of falling down the rabbit hole of the internet (usually quite late at night when I should be sleeping but simply can’t) I tend to pass the time reading, sometimes responding to, and occasionally posting questions on Quora. For the uninitiated Quora (according to it’s “official” … Continue reading
Why We Need Political Correctness Reminder #1
This is me. Robin Nathania Mathes Peacher Landry. However, at the time that this picture was taken, my name was simply, Robin Nathania (pronounced by my family as “nuh-than-ee-yuh”, which I hated and decided to change to “na-tahn-ya” when I realized that it was my name, and I could say it any way that made … Continue reading
Motherhood Madness
“Freedom’s just another word for, ‘nothin’ left to lose’.” Janis Joplin expressed this rather pessimistic characterization of “freedom” in the 1971 hit song, Me and Bobby McGee.” And although we, as Americans, seem to enjoy nothing more than boasting about the many freedoms that we enjoy, I suspect that more than a few of us … Continue reading
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