The Gods Are Bored

  When in the course of human events it becomes obvious that the nation one inhabits has failed to address and respect the well-being of its...

 This is that moment in the year when light and dark are equal. We look to it for a sense of balance. But the dark is ascendant now, and I f...

 * 5:25 p.m. September 18, 2020 Had chili for supper. It was good. (Satisfaction) *6:25 p.m. Splayed into recliner, too tired to join Mr. J ...

  I've interviewed quite a number of bored deities over the 15 year span of "The Gods Are Bored." I've had chats with my g...

  Dear Pandemic Diary, Today is Labor Day, and on every other Labor Day since 2008 I have marched in the Philadelphia AFL-CIO Labor Day para...

  I should have been out walking. I should have been working on my memoir. Instead I slid into the comfort of cross stitch, a talent my dear...

  If I could inflict a punishment on Donald Trump, I would make him a public school teacher. Yes, that's exactly what I would do.

 Hello and welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" My name is Anne, and today I'm going to be talking to all of you who put this ques...

 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...