The Gods Are Bored

  I know I'm a bad person. I know I have a wicked side. I know I have the capacity to take others' suffering lightly, if I feel the ...

  Today I took a half sick day. I went out to lunch and then to the swimming pool. I also called my doctor and got an appointment. I left ea...

  I spend too much time on Facebook. Click "Like" if you do too. One of the reasons I spend so much time there is that there are s...

  On day four of my first week of work, I was told that a kid sitting near my desk had tested positive for COVID. Five students were sent ho...

  Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored!" I'm Anne Johnson, a school teacher in the Time of COVID-19. If you can do this job, under t...

  Hello there! You may have Googled Malcolm Kenyatta's name and come to my page as a newcomer. If so, welcome aboard! I am a resident of...

  I know you've heard all about it. Texas has a new law that forbids abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Oh, shucks, let's dispen...

  The remnants of Hurricane Ida passed through New Jersey last night. A tornado spawned in South Jersey and stayed on the ground through ful...

  Ah, summer is almost over, and a new school year beckons. Even though COVID-19 is almost worse than ever, we are back to full enrollment i...

You know that even in the Wild, Wild West there were people who planted apple trees and built schools, right? That's kind of how I feel ...

  It's happened twice this summer. I have gotten poison ivy without even seeing it. I know what this pestilential plant looks like. I...

  This post begins with a definition. LARP is Live Action Role Play. What this means is, you go to a wooded area, arm yourself with foam wea...

  We have all been there, right? Someone we have known forever, loved forever, looked forward to seeing, goes down the worm hole and becomes...

  Howdy again, and welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," where patience is a virtue and the small business rules! I'm Anne Johnson,...

  Did you see this? "I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer because you guys paid for all of this," Bezos...

 Hello out there in the Google-space, it's time for another installment of "The Gods Are Bored!" I'm just back from a litt...

  Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," school-is-out edition! I'm your sweltering host, Anne Johnson. It's 98 degrees outside....

  Welcome to "The Gods Are Bored," where we don't comfort the afflicted ... we afflict the comfortable. Today's comfortabl...

 I have never gotten over the sale of my grandfather's property on Polish Mountain. I couldn't afford to buy my cousins out. And the...

  My dear ol' dad taught me to respect and appreciate insects. I'm pretty tolerant of most bugs, with the usual exceptions for cockr...