Opinion

One of the things I heard the most last week was discussion about the impending snowstorm that was expected through the weekend.

I haven’t yet been invited to give a commencement address this spring and I’m okay with that.

For most of my middle child’s life, she’s had to endure the apparently pure torture of hearing how much she looks just like me.

Over the weekend I was able to take advantage of the nicer weather (and the less muddy ground) to explore outdoors and be introduced to some spaces locally that I haven’t been to.

If a person lives in a democracy, which thus far we do, you soon learn that politics is not an orderly business like cosmetic dentistry or carpentry, it is more like pond hockey or maybe a conclave of sociopaths or an ostrich jubilee, and the messiness can drive you crazy, like finding potatoes in your sock drawer and rutabagas in the medicine cabinet, and the alternative to despair is amusement.So when the Alabama Supreme Court decides that an embryo is a human being and you see Republicans scrambling to distance themselves from this lest they alienate young people of voting age who were conceived in vitro, you wonder if someday sperm will be given the same protection and male masturbation will be considered child abuseThere is no normal anymore.