Kids’ 2 Half Days of School? Happiness….

Today Tuesday, 30 May is the last full day of school for my girls. Tomorrow is their Awards Day and Thursday is classroom parties; both days they only attend for a few hours. Now I know that may seem like a hassle to have to get up early, go through all the normal school day…

Time to Declare War on Religion

Since the beginning of time, as far as we know, humans have been a spiritual lot. Before the advent of science, and even after, humanity needed a way to explain the world around them. When and where to plant crops. The changing of the seasons. Life, death and after. How to treat people. That last…

How Christians Can Force You into Atheism

I was raised Catholic and it never occurred to me that I should be anything else especially since my family can trace it’s lineage back hundreds of years. In the 1000+ years of documented family drama every generation has been a part of the Catholic Church to the point they were involved in many groups…

The Wall was built and NO ONE cared

“KEEP OUT” Mexicans Even if you’re just trying to attend church A funny thing happened a while back. A wave of anti-immigration began to take over the U.S. which then swept over pretty much the entire Hispanic community; after all it’s not like you can look at someone from that community and know whether they…

The End of the Great American Experiment

A bunch of white guys got together a while back and decided they wanted to take over a different part of the world; recreate it into a place where everyone could live in peace. Different races, cultures, genders and beliefs creating utopia. Thus the Great American Experiment was born. That may be paraphrasing a bit…

Defecting to the Sahm’s Group

I never thought of myself as being able to do the “Stay at Home Mom” thing. My own mother was a SAHM for quite a bit of my life before she got her nursing degree. She was perfect at it, she was like June Cleaver or Donna Reed. The neighborhood kids were constantly hanging out…

I Hate My Children and Husband (and That’s Totally Okay)

As I sit here writing, there is rain falling outside in the dark and it sounds beautiful. The window is open next to me, I have on an old Texas Wesleyan University hoodie to keep warm against the cold air that occasionally wafts in. The breathtaking silence that envelopes me amidst the rain drops is…

I’ve already lived in Hell(ish)

Let me tell you how much fun it is to review books…. Whether or not I like a book doesn’t take away from the fact that someone took time to contribute to a society that sorely needs more focus on the arts especially when literacy rates are lower than Trump’s approval score. Come on that’s…