The Gods Are Bored

  All hail Venus Cloacina, and welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" I'm Anne Johnson, school teacher, and I got observed today. Wh...

Please do not think I am a vain, self-centered Karen. I hope y'all know me better than that. Because I know what's going on in the n...

Hello, hello, and welcome to another installation of "The Gods Are Bored!" I'm Anne Johnson, hardy volunteer at Netroots Natio...

It's 4:45 p.m. and still bright daylight, so we are making progress. However, my heart is heavy today. One of my students who I had thre...

Across the street from my house there are eight healthy, mature trees slated for the ax. The trees have big red X marks painted on them. (Se...

Let me introduce you to my student. I will call her Sweetie Pie for reasons that will soon be obvious. Sweetie Pie has perfect attendance....

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," where we prize sanity, not vanity. I'm Anne Johnson, and sometimes things make me cry. On t...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," emitting sardonic snorts since 2005! I'm Anne Johnson - it's my real name. Honest, I woul...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" If you are one of my three readers still looking in to see if I'm here, let it be known ... A...

I thought she would live to be 70 years old. That's what I'd heard that parrots do. When the vet told me she was nearing the end of ...

Welcome to The Gods Are Bored, where we find our mission accomplished! Many bored deities of many pantheons are no longer bored. They have g...

Mr. J just lost his last writing gig. There is nothing on the horizon.

On Saturday Mr. J and I went to the Camden County Courthouse in Camden, NJ, to see some of my students compete in a thing called "Mock ...

We didn't even choose the lowest bidder. But never mind. The "professional" tree service Mr. J chose to trim our ancient pea...

My uncle Foggy died yesterday. He was not born with the name Foggy, but after a bully called him that one day in his youth, he and my dad an...

This morning I had to go to the pharmacy for allergy pills. I saw a school bus in the parking lot that had the name of my Vo-Tech on it. I t...

The other day, Spare and I found ourselves at the shopping mall. I don't like to go there, because have you noticed? There's nothing...

O dear Goddesses, Freya and Bast, please guard and care for the spirit of my Alpha, sent to You on Thursday, February 21 at 7:30 p.m. Alph...

Do you like estate sales? I know some people just love them. They're economical, and the stuff is usually better than yard sale quality,...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" The veil is growing thinner, and the spirits of our ancestors are seeking us as the year comes to...