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    The Name Game
    Patti Hope
    • Sep 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Name Game

    In the early 80s, a female college professor I admired once told me to call myself Pat. “That way, on job applications, no one will know...
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    Patti Hope
    • Sep 11, 2020
    • 1 min

    Nine Eleven

    I wish I could know everyone. I wish I could know (and somehow handle) their loneliness. Ugh! But all I can really do is try to find a...
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    It's the Ride
    Patti Hope
    • Aug 7, 2020
    • 1 min

    It's the Ride

    Nice ride. Ride out the storm. Go for a ride. Hitch a ride. Ride the wave. Ride my ass. Took me for a ride. Wild ride. Ain’t about how...
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    I Think I Lost Life's Instruction Manual
    Patti Hope
    • Jul 22, 2020
    • 2 min

    I Think I Lost Life's Instruction Manual

    All this pandemic stuff abruptly brought the curtain down on my budding career as a stand up comedian.  It also marked the end of hosting...
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    A Queen of Hearts Fairy Tale
    Patti Hope
    • Jun 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    A Queen of Hearts Fairy Tale

    Ok, so Once Upon a Time, there was a girl. She’d been around the block. Checkered past. Coke whore turned treehugger. A Cinderella...
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    How's the Air Up There?
    Patti Hope
    • May 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    How's the Air Up There?

    The title of this blog makes me bristle a bit. I am reminded of the taunts I heard as a child in school, as I was always at least a head...
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    Lift a Glass to Our Teachers
    Patti Hope
    • Apr 15, 2020
    • 2 min

    Lift a Glass to Our Teachers

    We are on stay-at-home orders here in Florida due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so I told myself I'm going to do more stretching, exercising,...
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    Look for the Helpers
    Patti Hope
    • Apr 1, 2020
    • 1 min

    Look for the Helpers

    Florida is under stay-at-home orders beginning at midnight tonight. Decided to share a few quotes I like that seem appropriate to the...
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    Your Turn
    Patti Hope
    • Mar 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    Your Turn

    I'm mostly staying at home these days -- the COVID-19 pandemic is hitting the Florida economy pretty hard now and most of my part-time...
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    My First Cat
    Patti Hope
    • Mar 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    My First Cat

    An homage to cat lovers everywhere, this poem was written by my maternal grandmother, known to us as 'Nana Commish' because of her...
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    Are We What We Deny We Eat?
    Patti Hope
    • Mar 12, 2020
    • 2 min

    Are We What We Deny We Eat?

    For a year and a half I worked as a cooking demonstrator at a large grocery store chain. I was required to prepare a protein-based dish...
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    Idiom Tedium
    Patti Hope
    • Mar 4, 2020
    • 1 min

    Idiom Tedium

    Cable "News" Talking Heads: Given the circumstances... The fact of the matter is... All things considered... What I'm trying to say... At...
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    A Mansion in the Sky or SkyNet?
    Patti Hope
    • Feb 26, 2020
    • 2 min

    A Mansion in the Sky or SkyNet?

    After my husband passed away 10 years ago, Plan A was that I'd find someone new to enjoy life with, intimacy, blah, blah, all that fun...
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    10 Things that Just Don't Work for Me
    Patti Hope
    • Feb 19, 2020
    • 1 min

    10 Things that Just Don't Work for Me

    Really? Ewwww.....! + the above, so 11 things. Short men who think that all tall women are insatiable sex goddesses. It’s true, but...
    56 views0 comments
    The Bright Side of Dark Humor
    Patti Hope
    • Feb 12, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Bright Side of Dark Humor

    Recently, I was watching one of my fellow comedians deliver a particularly disturbing set of jokes. There was a little laughter, but...
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    The Sixth Extinction
    Patti Hope
    • Jan 5, 2020
    • 2 min

    The Sixth Extinction

    In Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, the author concludes that human behavior is on the verge of causing...
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    VOTE – It’s the Least You Can Do
    Patti Hope
    • Nov 5, 2019
    • 1 min

    VOTE – It’s the Least You Can Do

    Here’s our story, it’s sad but true. The Country is divided by RED and BLUE. VOTE – it’s the least you can do. A tweet of disapproval...
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