A couple of days ago, I posted a quote of mine. Maybe someone said it before I did but I don’t remember hearing it. It looked like this: I started thinking some more about it and decided that I should give it some additional attention. We’ve all heard (and some
Now you can listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! If today I said that I identified as a woman, those who know me would believe I was joking. They would think that it’s just another one of those things I do to see if I can get a
I ran into a friend of mine earlier this week. Let’s call her “Jessica”. She was all excited about the possibility of getting a COVID-19 vaccine. The conversation went something like this. Jessica: My whole family is planning on getting the vaccine as soon as possible. Me: Why? Jessica: Because
Now you can listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! I’m not a person who normally buys into conspiracy theories. You know what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the crazy scenarios that people invent to connect otherwise unconnectable events. While I do believe the government keeps us in
If you believe the experts, I should have had COVID-19 by now. Because I haven’t bought into the COVID panic, and I don’t take any precautions. I don’t social distance and I don’t wear a mask while driving my car, walking my dog or riding my bike. In fact, the
Late last summer, I jokingly told my dad that the virus would magically disappear on November 4th because that was the day after the election. Looking back, I can see I was a bit naïve. The magic date wasn’t November 4th, it was January 20th. You see, if the virus
I’m about to say something that’s likely to trigger a lot of people: Boys and girls are not the same. There. I said it. It doesn’t seem like that should be controversial, but apparently it is. Let’s continue. If you stood a boy and a girl side-by-side and asked anyone
I learned a new word last week and it has quickly climbed the ranks to be my most favorite word. That word is “bescumber”. It’s a wonderful word. I like the way it sounds. Say it with me…bescumber. Having grown up on a dairy farm, I bescumbered for years and
If you take only one thing away from reading this article, remember this: The companies making the COVID-19 vaccinations don’t get paid for every life they save. They get paid for every person injected with an experimental drug that was fast-tracked through the clinical trial process. If you’re short on
About 3 million people die in the United States every year. That’s about 8,000 per day or approximately 6 people every minute. In fact, depending on how fast you read, somewhere between 10 and 20 people are going to die in the United States before you finish reading this. They’re