numbers game

After the introduction of our newest U.S. budget, I heard a BBC newscaster who kept saying “2.5 thousand million dollars.” At least I think that’s what they said. Okay, first off I thought this sounded cool, since it’s such a big number. Plus she had a British accent and I was drooling just a little […]

Because hell is for children

When I was in high school, Pat Benatar had the hit song. We used to sing it, with relish, because we were angst-ridden teenagers that thought for some reason the world owed us something, that we were somehow special in our feeling messed up. We imagined we were hurt somehow. They cry in the dark, […]