by Melinda Snodgrass | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog
Personal anecdote to indicate just how badly Trump & his administration botched the response to Covid 19. I’m a news junkie, I read the Post, the Times, Guardian, I watch the news, probably too much. I was aware of the outbreak of a new virus in China, but erroneously thought it was a flu. I know not to listen to a damn thing Trump says, but I (wrongly) assumed that the CDC or NIH would give us accurate information. What I missed was that Trump had throttled them. So I went about my...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog
I get it. Many of us are terrified that we’re witnessing the final days of the American experiment. We fear another four years of Donald Trump will result in the end of the Republic and the slide into autocracy… or worse. So those of us who frequent the inter-webs, and play around with social media have set aside the cute cat videos, and kids doing adorable things, and are talking politics. A lot. But we’re not doing it very well. Or at least a subset of us aren’t. Because this feels like the...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Dec 31, 2019 | Blog
Okay, there are going to be SPOILERS so please don’t read this if you haven’t seen the film, and SPOILERS make you nuts. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. SPOILERS. ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Any of you...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 28, 2019 | Blog
So everyone made it safely to the house. Cordelia Willis gave me one of her bound books of their trip this past summer. Cordelia is a wonderful photographer. George and Parris gave me a darling Dr. Who purse. Considering I was just texting with a friend about whether he was the Doctor and I the Companion or vice versa it felt very apt. I overcooked the stuffing, and burned rather than toasted the top because I forgot about it because the damn bird would not get done! I blamed the turkey (and I...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Nov 28, 2019 | General
This is going to be one of those Thanksgivings that we all talk about for years to come. Yesterday it started snowing. And it snowed. And it snowed. And it snowed. I had been cooking all day yesterday, and today. Had a 21 pound turkey (our dinosaur descendant) in the fridge that had to be cooked whether my guests reached me or not. But being ever the optimist I went ahead and shoveled, and made great-grandfather’s homemade egg nog, and deviled the eggs while the bird roasted in the oven....
