The Gods Are Bored

 My gut told me not to do it, but it's so hard to leave good money on the table when you're a teacher in the summertime. So I went t...

 I woke up this morning and realized that two weeks from today I will be going back to work as a public school teacher in a district serving...

 Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," coming to you more than 250 times a year for 15 years and counting! I'm Anne Johnson, and I ...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," Hurricane Isaias Edition! Ah, 2020! Not even gonna ask if it can get worse. Yeah, so we're in...

Hello from "The Gods Are Bored" on this day that begins with Y! Don't ask me which  day it is. There will be time for that in ...

My friends, I sit here every day doing more or less the same thing, which is next-to-nothing. My state is open, but I don't go anywhere ...

In the freezing cold, in the relentless heat, in the broad daylight and darkest night, people have been protesting new natural gas pipelines...

Here's a timely little post for all of you who are basically stuck on your own little plot of land. Which  should be all of us right now...

One of the pleasures of summer vacation is my ability to sit out on my front porch with my breakfast and the paper edition of the New York T...

The longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere means that now the wheel will turn, and we begin our descent into the darkness. And...

I have always wanted to believe the best about people. Give them the benefit of the doubt, so to speak. So when Donald Trump was elected p...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" You've tried swatting them, you've tried screening them out, you've cursed and revile...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," tracking a worsening Disturbance in the Force for quite awhile. Have you felt it? Like, even be...

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...

The evil this man has done is horrendous and will live beyond him. People were harmed yesterday so that he could hold a Bible up in front of...

Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" After all these years, my name is still Anne Johnson. Doubt if I'm going to change it now. ...

Well, here we are again at "The Gods Are Bored," on May 72nd or some such. The only upside to teaching from home is that I get eno...

So it was round about April 21, and I was sitting in my barca-lounger feeling sorry for myself. I thought, "Oh yeah, and no festivals t...

I got my hopes up again. It was looking really good. The prospects were, as they say, ripe. The television started reporting on a Thunderb...

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