skilcoyne.com

I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is Z. So this is it. On a whim, on the day the thing started, I signed on to do this A to Z Blogging Challenge. For the month of April, several thousand people wrote a blog entry every day (not counting Sundays),…

I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is Y. I just scarfed down some Ben & Jerry’s Half-Baked Froyo, which, according to the container, is “Chocolate & Vanilla Low Fat Frozen Yogurts mixed with Gobs of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough & Fudge Brownies.” The frozen yogurt is considerably lower in…

I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is X. Xenophobia: n. intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries. There’s a lot of that going around these days and I just don’t get it. I guess that’s where the irrational part of the definition above comes…

Forget Mexico paying for the border wall. Naming rights is the way to go.

I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is V. According to this article in the NY Times, NC Governor Pat McCrory believes that the entire transgender bathroom debacle was actually orchestrated by Democrats and the Human Rights Campaign in order to give Democrats the edge in the upcoming Governor’s…

I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is U. I tried to make this: for dinner last night. It didn’t go well. I wish I’d taken a picture, it looked so awful. I don’t have the right kind of pan and I had the heat up too high, so the water…

I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is T. Tempora mutantur is a Latin adage that dates to the Protestant Reformation. It translates to times change. A longer version is Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.  Times change and we change with them. 500-ish years ago, the Catholic Church…

I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is S. Social media in general sort of surprises me. People are reading this blog that didn’t really exist until a few weeks ago. That’s kind of cool. My Instagram account has a bunch of artsy-fartsy pictures of shopping carts. It’s…

Before I had an iPod or a phone that stored thousands of songs, I kept about a dozen CDs at the office and just kept them in rotation. Roseanne Cash’s Rules of Travel was in heavier rotation than the others. Now that I do have a phone that stores most…

  I’m doing this blogging A to Z thing. Today is Q. When I started driving, seat belts had just been made mandatory, “regular” gas had lead in it, rear-wheel drive was the norm, and those triangular windows at the fronts of the front doors (and sometimes the backs of…