FIRESTARTER | September 5, 2024
This horrifying article came across my desktop today. An elite athlete and 33 year-old mother was burned to death in Kenya by her boyfriend in front of her two young daughters.
Read. That. Again. Her boyfriend doused her in gasoline and set her on fire, all because of an argument over her property.
As horrifying as this incident is, I am actually not surprised.
When I hear the belittling or outright hateful way some (too many) men and boys openly talk about girls and women I cringe thinking about what they actually think in their heads and what they say within the “safety” of their phones and from behind their cleverly unidentifiable user names on X, Instagram, or Reddit. READ ON HERE.
BRASH BEHIND THE GLASS | September 18, 2024
I have a little white dog. His name is Max. Technically, he belongs to my girlfriend and her son but we both agree that he’s MY dog. Or better said, I am HIS human. He even calls me boyfriend, and I swear it’s not weird! 😉
Max does this thing that, sadly, I see too many humans doing these days. He sits behind the big front window of the house perched on a piano bench that mainly serves as his “lookout station” these days. He clocks in to his station around 6AM on the daily and quietly waits.
Unfailingly the quiet is suddenly pierced with a 0-60 rapid escalation of emotion in the form of a barking fit that still startles and annoys the occupants of the household. This barking… READ ON HERE.
