No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

In some ways, I'm still having trouble believing that I'm writing such a similar essay just a few months after writing about my mo...

I'm running very late with this. I have seen most of the nominated movies (except for Hacksaw Ridge and Hell or High Water). I liked...

Jim and I have been a couple for over 40 years. Wow, who'd've thought? ;-> We've been parents for 36 years and Leslie fi...

I never met these two famous women in my title. However, I really knew both of these talented women better than most. I absolutely idoli...

Fairness and Donald Trump On November 10, 2016, the "real" Donald J. Trump tweeted: Just had a very open and successful pre...

Many women have been writing about how their experiences with misogyny have led them to support Hillary Clinton. I whole-heartedly agre...

How to Estimate Affordable Care Act Insurance Premiums (AKA Obamacare) Using https://www.healthcare.gov/see-plans/ Remember the initial c...

This was the single most brilliant move by the Clinton campaign - to release a catalog of many (but probably not all) of Trump's lies j...

Leavetakings - July 2016 July 2016 was a month of leavetakings, the happy and the sad. We had long encouraged our daughter to move out,...

[[ My mother, Ruth Shonyo Trask, is a free-lance writer who spent over 20 years working for the WPI Journal as a writer and an editor. She...

I've been a fat person for nearly 50 years, an obese person for nearly 33 of those years, and a morbidly obese person for about 3 of t...

Quick Lower Calorie Smore Desserts are often a sore point if you're trying to cut back on junk food. But sometimes you want more th...

Just about half a lifetime ago, I was working for Stratus Computer in Hudson Massachusetts. During group meetings, we sometimes saw the fam...

I had a feeling when I first saw Spotlight that it would be my favorite movie of the year, and it is. Exceptionally intelligently written,...

So if you really don't want to read spoilers, STOP NOW               I went to this movie not knowing anything new (thou...

I have always hated when people write things like: Today is John Lennon's 75th birthday No, no, a thousand times NO! When p...

I'm really glad that Viola Davis, Regina King & Uzo Aduba won Emmys last night. Viola Davis is one of the finest actors working to...

I'm very happy for these victories for modernity. However, we need to be ever-vigilant. Civil rights for all races, genders and religi...

Is that click-baity enough for you? The actual title of this should be "Walking the Pittsburgh Half-Marathon Route," but these ...

Like the vast majority of people who've been voting for the Hugos for years, I have never, ever voted for a slate of people/works. It...