#Pocalypso | I Never Knew My Life Was So Terrible
2020-04-17 – Welcome to my life. Why welcome? Well, forget it. You’re not really welcome. That’s just a phrase people say. They don’t mean it. And, if they don’t mean […]
Tag Archives: psychology
#Pocalypso | Prayers of the Atheists
2020-04-10 – I have a sticker on the wall above my desk. It says: “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” I don’t usually go in for […]
#Pocalypso | At Least I Made Matzah Ball Soup
2020-04-09 – So, for the first time in my life, I didn’t attend a Passover Seder. As we say every year in the Seder: L’shana Haba’ah – Next year. At […]
#Pocalypso | Overnight Text Message: Preocupada
2020-03-24 – If you see me putting the back of my wrist to my forehead in a kind of woe-is-me gesture, don’t worry. I’m not giving up. I’m just checking […]
#Pocalypso | Brothers Sitting Together in Unity
2020-03-23 – Welcome to ‘Pocalypso. This second Monday of the shut down is not much different from Mondays I’ve celebrated for the last six years. I’ve been a telecommuter for […]
Starting a Busy Week!
2020-01-27 – I’m working on an attitude fix. I used to say: “OMG! I have a too-busy week. How am I going to get through it?” But then I get […]
Who Side Was She On?
2020-01-20 – One year from today, the darkness lifts . . . or it gets worse. I’m voting for lifts. But today I’m thinking about how this sort of thing […]
Spanish Hamburgers Are Female!
2020-01-16 – If you think we have problems with gender in English, try Spanish. In English, we are struggling to decide on a gender-neutral pronoun (and seemingly settling on “they”). […]
Gender Is Located in Three Places
2019-03-04 – Gender is located in three places: between your legs, between your ears, and between you and me. There’s a fourth place where people like to situate gender: in […]
It’s Not the #MeToo Movement That’s Giving Men a Hard Time
2018-10-11 – If anyone is giving men and boys a hard time, it’s not the #MeToo movement. It’s the creeps who say that it is normal for men and boys to […]
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