I Don’t Need to Compete With AI (artificial intelligence) AI is doing this AI is taking over that AI is going to wipe us all out It seems all you hear about AI is that AI is taking over, has taken over, and there is nothing us dumb-ass humans can do about…

I don't need to compete with AI. Here's why:

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New Poem – Women Choose the Bear I wrote this poem in response to the devastating report from CNN about a website that has been referred to as a ‘rape academy’. This is a very graphic and deeply disturbing report on a …

New Poem - Women Choose the Bear

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The Universe Has a Sense of Humor (especially when it comes to me) I have said for many years the Universe has a sense of humor, especially when it comes to me. Case in point: Yesterday morning when I woke up at o’dark thirty, I said, “I have a feeling something s…

The Universe has a sense of humor (and I'm living proof of it)

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Cruel to the Truth Yesterday I wrote this stanza in my poem, ‘The Poetic Muse’: Sometimes she storms into the room Furious with rage Raging against something she read online Heard on the news Or saw in the world She …

Never be cruel to the truth:

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For National Poetry Month – In Honor of My Poetic Muse (poem) In honor of National Poetry Month 2026, a new poem about my poetic muse. Poem – My Poetic Muse – pdfDownload

For National Poetry Month, a thank you to my poetic muse

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In honor of National Poetry Month, the first poem I wrote back in 2019 when I returned to writing poetry after a thirty-plus year hiatus:

The size of a guy's yacht is like the size of a guy's pickup truck: neither one is an accurate reflection of what they've got below their belt.

Why Do This? If you ask the question, why do this? Then my answer will depend on where you’re asking it from. First, if you’re asking me from the ground you’re laying on because you’ve had the shit kicked out o…

If you ask me why do this? Well, that depends on where you're coming from. Most of the time, you'll probably get chewed out by me.

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New Poem – The World Does NOT Need Perfection This poem is to all the naysayers in this world, the Debbie Downers, and all-around perfectionist assholes. This is for all the people in this world who go, “Why do this?” And for the r…

To every naysayer about the #NOKINGS protests tomorrow, the world does NOT need your perfection.

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The Second Chance at the Second Half of Life It’s been two months since I’ve had a period. Now I could always spontaneously ovulate at any time and start the countdown all over again but as of now, I’m in the countdown to the grand finale of …

It does get better.

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You’re Still Not Uncomfortable Enough If you say you’re uncomfortable, then I’m going say this: You’re not uncomfortable enough. When I was much younger, when someone said they were ‘uncomfortable’, that meant you had to shut your mout…

If someone is still saying their 'uncomfortable', here's a lovely foul-mouthed response to that:

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New Poem – We’re All Human This poem was inspired by something that happened this morning when I was picking up my last ride: I accidently swiped the ride to end it when I hadn’t. Lucky for me, the app caught my mistak…

I think this poem of mine here has one of the best opening lines I've ever come up with:

This morning I made a boo-boo

You can read the rest of it here:
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Fumbling My Way Through Menopause Warning: If you’re a guy, you might want to pass on this unless you want a very blunt insight into a peri-menopausal woman possibly entering actual menopause. And as a woman of Generation X, my way…

Fumbling Towards Menopause with some serious raunch and frankly, I don't care attitude.

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New Poem – Get Loud and Stay Loud New poem here. Right now, I think I write better about political shit in poetry form than I do in blog posts. Because in poetry, I can stay sharp and on target with what I want to say. So, here&#82…

New Poem, my advice these days, especially to young people:

GET LOUD AND STAY LOUD

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You Are Not Uncomfortable Enough This morning, a joint US-Israeli bombing campaign began against Iran. In one bombing run, a school for girls was destroyed in Tehran with over sixty girls dead and dozens more injured and trapped i…

If someone says they're 'uncomfortable', tell them they're not uncomfortable enough.

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Spirals and Snaps and Emerging From the Winter of My Discontent As an (unofficially) autistic-ADHD person, there are two things that stop me from doing what I want to, and what I need to do, too. The first is spiraling. This is a feeling that where I feel my th…

Spirals, Snaps, and Coming Out of the Winter of My Discontent

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Earth: A Backwater, Back-Ass Dump Today, the current Administration here in the good old United States of America said they will release government files on aliens. These assholes think this is going to work as a distraction from t…

Dear Aliens,

If you want us to take you to our leaders, we'll be more than happy to!

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Steamy, Spicy, Sexy Short Stories Welcome to Hot Takes COMING SOON! My first ten Hot Takes erotic short stories will be available in e-book and print formats soon so you can have all the stories in one place for your enjoyment. Hot…

Finally, a brand-new steamy, spicy, sexy short story here about a real 'Pickup Man'

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The Culture Wars Are Over, and Yes, The Good Guys Won I grew up hearing about the ‘culture wars’ conservative Republican right-wing evangelical white people have been waging against everyone who isn’t exactly like them for over forty years. And you kn…

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First, I hope his wife and children are safe and that she can get a protective order against him. Second, it doesn't sound like he's playing with a full deck. And third, he's a typical right-wing asshole who I really hope gets cleaned out in his divorce.

How Hard Is It to Write a Happy Ending Right Now? It’s a hard time to be a romance novelist and writer happy endings. But then it’s been hard since 2016 with just a brief reprieve from 2021 to 2024. Why is that, you ask? Well, if you’re not a ragi…

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From Analog to Digital to AI: Been There, Done That, and Here We Go Again The discussion over using AI technology, especially in the creative fields can be pretty heated. I understand where the heat comes from and I agree with people who hate the thought of people using …

From the 'Pardon My Cynicism' files:

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New Poem – The Winter of My Discontent picture by Jonathan Sautter via Pixabay New poem here because as I write here, paragraphs are too dense for me right now. Poem – The Winter of My Discontent – pdfDownload

New Poem - The Winter of My Discontent

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Seventy-Nine Today my father would have turned seventy-nine (born on this date in 1947, died in 2011). I have a very hard time thinking of him as old, and in a way, I’m glad he’s not here to see what the world …

My dad, forever young:

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Just a Dog Named Darcy Darcy, age 2 It was on this date in 2012 that I got a phone call that changed my life. It was from a friend of mine who said she’d found two puppies on the side of the road out in the stix (my frie…

Because dogs are great, here's my girl Darcy on the 14th anniversary of her Gotcha Day!

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Stand or Fall – How I Kept My Father From Being Taken Hostage By Fox News In 2006, my father moved into the last apartment he would live in and since I was starting to make decent money from my job at that time, I paid for cable tv for him. But I told him right away that…

I've seen people asking how family and friends became MAGA and my late father could have been a MAGA convert if he hadn't made the decisions that he did, and maybe because I stood up to him like I wrote about here a couple of years ago/

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I want one of these!

Watched it all the time, too. Great movie!

Looking Back: 2016 Lately, there has been this trend online of people looking back at the year 2016. I don’t have any photos of myself from that time, which is a good thing because I’m just as ugly now as I was back …

Looking back at my life in 2016:

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How about Medicare for All instead and end the sick joke that has ALWAYS been health insurance? Radical? Liberal? Hell, yeah!