Author: honeyrand

Turtles are in trouble. Water turtles, sea turtles, yard turtles, gopher tortoises….The climate is changing and with it, the gender of the turtles. They are mostly female and the projections for male populations aren’t good. Heat encourages females and things are getting hotter. That’s not all. Habitats are at risk,…

My husband and I went out for breakfast one day this week. There’s a little hole-in-the-strip mall that I like because I can get a half-order of sausage gravy and biscuit. He can’t have eggs benedict but his back up Western omelet choice is perfectly serviceable. There are only seven…

We saw the movie Hustlers. First, let me say I love Jennifer Lopez. I wish that at 50 I had the ambition and money it takes to maintain your 30-year-old body…or booty. Still, last night on Stephen Colbert she talked about how hard it is to pole dance. It reminded…

Today I went to the grocery to buy some things for my book club. It’s my turn to host. At the checkout line, I noticed a publication. Big headline: Memory. For a while, I’ve been refining a story titled Mama Killed a Cuban. The story begins with a random memory…

I’ve been making notes for a collection of stories about weird things that happened in my career. Then, weirdly, I realized there have been a lot of cows in my career. In one instance a hotel was discharging excess rainfall onto a farm. The farm owner explained to me, “cows…

I went to the local grocery store to pick up some manicotti shells. My turn to cook. Got to the pasta aisle and…there was only one brand of shells. In-ter-est-ing. Normally, we live in abundance. I expected my usual process, read the box, look at the sodium, compare costs. It…

Robert Levine died two weeks ago. You probably never heard of him. He was a social psychologist. I tore his obit out of the New York Times because I thought his work might be of interest to you. Today, the day after the U.S. House of Representatives condemned a U.S.…