Polish your teapots, iron your doilies and butter your crumpets. For the first time in 70 years, an English monarch will be crowned and the whole world will tune in to see if King Charles III, Prince William and Prince Harry bust each other up at Westminster Abbey. Whether or not the coronation turns intoContinue reading “The Royal Treatment”
Author Archives: Peri Kinder
Take Pride in Love
Although I don’t like crowds, parades or people, in general, when my husband suggested we attend the Pride Parade last month in Salt Lake, I painted a rainbow on my face, donned my “More Love” shirt and jumped in the car. After a year of devastating anti-gay and anti-trans legislation across the country, we wantedContinue reading “Take Pride in Love”
It Takes a Village
Women who work outside the home are supernatural shapeshifters. One minute they’re closing the deal on a $5-million property and the next minute they’re on the phone with their 5-year-old daughter who’s upset because the parakeet won’t talk to her. I think we can agree women are in the workplace. I think we can agreeContinue reading “It Takes a Village”
A lot on my plate
Fear sells, but why does the food industry use anxiety to sell products? I mean, if there’s one thing the seven billion people on this planet agree on, it’s that we need food. (And Baby Yoda is adorable. That’s universally accepted.) When COVID hit last spring, I heard we’d run out of beef by autumn.Continue reading “A lot on my plate”
Making the grade
When my kids were little, I did a bit of substitute teaching. After I accidentally threw an encyclopedia and flipped a desk over, I realized teaching elementary school probably wasn’t for me. Teachers are comprised of strong stuff. The molten lava that flows through their veins gives them courage and an unbreakable gaze. A skeletonContinue reading “Making the grade”
A Dropped Call
Like a mother in a Disney movie, my cell phone died inexplicably. Well, not inexplicably. I dropped it in the toilet. I was wearing jeans for the first time in seven months and had the phone in my back pocket when it promptly fell into the commode. My phone, not my back pocket. There’s aContinue reading “A Dropped Call”
Five Things Trump Did Very Goodly
At this very moment, Donald Trump’s attorneys are filing lawsuits and spreading COVID as they ask judges for an election re-do. The entire world is witnessing a meltdown of Pompeii-ish proportions. Trump is parading through the streets, wearing invisible clothes, as his sycophants praise him for his fashion choices. But if the election stands (fingersContinue reading “Five Things Trump Did Very Goodly”
Falling Apart
We can continue to Catastrophe Scroll though vile social media posts, created by friendless trolls with no sense of humor and a serious case of ringworm, or we can turn off our phones and relearn what “community” means.
Just Here For The Boos
It’s been a decade since COVID-19 reached our shores, ushering in 45 years of hand sanitizer, remote learning and face mask protesters sporting apostrophe-addled signs like “Your an idiot” and “Parent’s against masks”. But now it’s October. Halloween is at risk. S*** just got real. Nothing could be scarier than 2020, with its earthquakes andContinue reading “Just Here For The Boos”
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