Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
It's 'splaining season. Everybody has their own pet theories of why it happened. Most are probably wrong, but some are spectacularly, garishly wrong, wrong in so many ways you have to wonder if they're right. Jon Stewart had one such on his Weekly Show. Richard Reeves, President of the American Institute for Boys and Men,… Continue reading The Daily: 26 November 2024
I don't know about you all, but I've been on a steady diet of John Oliver, The Daily Show, sudoku puzzles and this. I haven't had a real meal since All Hallows. With the water being gone, there have been more days than showers this week, and I don't even feel that bad about that.… Continue reading The Daily: 10 November 2024
I am changing Wednesdays again. I have abandoned the contest on All Poetry because I am not enjoying it. Plain and simple. There is an increasing amount of what I don't like about the world on that medium, as there is everywhere accessed by a keyboard and screen. There is also less, much less, good… Continue reading The Daily: 6 November 2024
We are electing the next President today. I wish we lived in a world where things like Donald Trump did not happen. I wish that we lived in a world in which there was absolutely no question about the outcome of this election now that he has. I wish we lived in a world in… Continue reading The Daily: 5 November 2024
November snuck up on me. I get the feeling that many are feeling the same. Suddenly, it's winter, it's dark, it's past Hallowe'en. That time-change thing happens again today. Two in the morning. Hate it... I don't care which way it goes, much like my body doesn't care which time zone it's been transported to… Continue reading The Daily: 3 November 2024
Things to look forward to... going somewhere This is one that I don’t actually agree with… and that is interesting because it reveals some conflicting core values. But, no, I don’t look forward to going somewhere. Sometimes, I endure it. I never enjoy it much. And the further the travel, the less I can tolerate… Continue reading The Daily: 23 October 2024
The point is that in almost every instance of our lives, our social lives, we are, if we pay attention, in the midst of an almost constant, if subtle, caretaking. ... This caretaking is our default mode and it's always a lie that convinces us to act or believe otherwise. Always.— Ross Gay, The Book… Continue reading The Daily: 26 July 2024
It's politico season again. This is more than a little depressing. Two doddering old white guys, neither of whom can string together more than three words that make sense. Is this really the best we can do? I find I have a very hard time caring. Yes, I know Biden is preferable in every way… Continue reading The Daily: 2 July 2024
This past week, I was reading a book that was written by a feminist author in 2017. I suppose I had forgotten just how gutted and anxious we all felt in those days. In the pages of this book I heard echoes and almost felt those emotions again. We all thought the world would end.… Continue reading The Daily: 7 March 2024
By My Solitary Hearth 