It was all fun and games until it wasn’t — — My daughter fell in love with all things Harry Potter. She flipped out when she saw real-life Harry Potter Bertie Botts Every Flavor Bean! Full disclosure, I flipped out too! Touchable and edible Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans in real life? Sign me up! Then some sadist clown created a game, Bean Boozled, where good flavors and identical vomitous flavors are scrambled together in the same box.

Hi and welcome, Feb. 2022 — I’m a wife, mom, and writer. All at the same time. Yeah, I’m that talented! I was a Risk Manager and worked at NASA for over 20 years. I have a master’s degree in business administration and a certificate in project management. …

Draw fair common sense congressional districts that don’t cheat — We have the means to be fair. Despite evidence to the contrary, common sense is not dead. Settle down, sit, quit yer yapping. It’s not. There’s a tiny pulse in the wee corners of dark rooms, where common sense still breathes. Take a checkerboard and slap that puppy over a…

What to do if you forgot to pack a spoon, fork, or, even better, a spork — I present the bork! Or boon? Maybe belloon? I like to use my food as a spoon, if plausible, and doesn’t harm anyone. Hot off the press! A tip for today’s hot tip — the belloon is not recommended for roly-polly heirloom tomatoes. They tend to do as they do…

So says the diagnosis notes from the world's most insensitive “doctor” in a white coat — Surely you exaggerate? Nonsense, they couldn’t have meant it. Oh, they meant it. They repeated it three times like Dorothy clickin’ her high heels. How rude! “Pelvic contents unremarkable”, my ask! What’s unremarkable is your vocabulary. It’s flaccid and limp like an almond mini biscotti twice-dunked in coffee. Like you…

“Tastes like xp,” that’s an advertising quote — XP? Have you lost your mind? That’s a flavor about as appealing as “weeping clock”. Backward record scratch “zzzzz”. Guys. Excuse me. What does “xp” taste like?

I like to call this — Imma Idiot — but also a genius — The Genius Part We discovered when you mix Hawaiian Punch or cherry with lime, and drink it, it’s like crack and you can’t stop. Not that I’ve tried crack, but I’ve read how hard it is to stop. Our household has been adding cherry flavor in all of its various guises — powder…

Holly crap that's brilliant. I need to play this in a haunted mansion. I particularly like the animal sounds and overlays. It's a work of art. I wish I could have participated!

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