The Gods Are Bored

I think this is the 118th year that Philadelphia has hosted a Mummers Parade on January 1. Like many events in big cities, this parade beg...

Nothing fills me with gratitude and joie de vivre  quite like hiking. You see, I gave up hiking for years -- actually decades  -- and then...

This tumultuous year is drawing to a close, and that means it's time for another Mummers Parade! Philadelphia hosts an annual Mummers ...

Two weeks before Thanksgiving, I asked all of my students to look around the room and write something nice about everyone they liked in the ...

Some of you might know that I'm a school teacher. I've been full time for eight years now. For the first time this year, the senior ...

Don't you wish that criminals were sentenced according to the existential threat they posed? That way, an African American teenager sell...

Dear Readers, all six of you (bless your sweet, smart hearts), I am finally able to post "before and after" photos of the view fro...

If you didn't know it before we got Donald Trump as president, you know it now. Real estate developers are the biggest fucking liars on ...

I'm back from the pushback protest. I think we numbered in the several hundreds, with lots of signs and Bronx cheers and middle finger s...

I'm one of those planners who likes to have all my ducks in order. Everyone who knows me knows I'm an alarmist who always expects th...

I've got two wonderful daughters. One calls me every day. The other one, if she's busy, doesn't call me for a week and forgets t...

I'm going to vote. I'm going to vote a straight Democratic ticket. I have done this since 1980. This year, after I vote, I'm...

It's Samhain coming, and the veil is thin. This is the month when our ancestors draw near, to see us and how we are faring. A few weeks ...

No one would ask a public school teacher to work on Christmas. It's a holiday. Except if you're a Pagan, the holiday is December 2...

When I was cavorting along the Appalachian Trail as a blithe teenager, I never thought I would someday be a woman of a certain age. But ther...

I salute the hawk of dawn, whose path marks the bounty of the fruitful Earth. I call upon the powers of the East. May there be peace in the ...

I've been following the Supreme Court and its decisions closely for years. This year, back in June, the court decided (5-4) to end a 40-...

I never liked Bill Cosby, even before women started bringing accusations against him. There was something unbearably proper about the man, p...

Hello, and welcome to The Gods Are Bored! What did you do today? I stripped wallpaper! I know, right?  Contain your jealousy, reader. It...

Well, well, well! Another September, another year of teaching school! If you worked in the profession, you'll know that your administrat...