Dept. of Nance

A s dejected as we all are by our lives remaining Unchanged from last week's first Sentence that was supposed to Change Our Lives For Th...

A bout a hundred years ago I found an audaciously titled article online that I read immediately, despite the fact it was so obviously clic...

S o much is...happening here that I can't even talk about it. But it's real, and it's astonishing, isn't it?

L ongtime Readers here at the Dept. know these two things about me already, but for any New Readers, I will provide you with the Short Vers...

S ome Smartypants Thinkerhead once advised that if you are ever angry at someone, you should write him or her a letter. In that letter y...

I t's March, and as a lifelong resident of Northeast Ohio, I know this means Zero about the arrival of Spring. Point of fact--today...

L isten, I'm kind of showing up here because I'm afraid that if I don't write something-- anything -- right now , I might nev...

M any of us are locked in the latest Polar Vortex--or one of them, now that there are actually three daughter vortices --and the extreme c...

The Long-Suffering Zydrunas O ne of the last conversations I had in 2018, via telephone with my eldest, Jared. Jared: Ma. Got any i...

M ay you be filled with Good Cheer this Holiday Season... one way or another. See you in the New Year-- Nance original image

T oday one of the worst possible Nance Domestic Equations occurred, and put simply, It Was Not Good. It set into motion a chain of events...

Zydrunas, granddog W e had quite a bit of outdoor work to get done yesterday, the one day that was going to be dry, calm, temperate, and...

I t's anyone's guess what will happen with this post. I'm winging it, just like Blogger and Feedburner seem to be with my su...

O h, hey. October...let's just say that it was a Month Of Juggling Priorities. Among the many Worthy Things clamouring for my time...

F or a little while there, I considered taking October off. The weather has been downright shitful, the Politics has been too, and I'...

T ime for a little Cleanout of my Cranial Clutter. Let's see what I can sweep out of the old cerebellum. ~*~ Anniversary. Somehow, ...

T he time I normally set aside for The Resistance was not enough this morning, thanks in large part to the Kavanaugh hearings and, of cou...

S cene opens on the interior of Nance's car, driven by Rick.  Nance is seated in the passenger's side.  Rick's phone soun...

1. At the doctor's office, I sat waiting for someone to come in and put a new dressing on my infected shoulder wound. In bustled...

"Here," said the gods of Irony, "because you have been trying valiantly to be A Good Girl and stick to your Wellness Regi...