Down the Rabbit Hole
A few weeks ago, I woke up around 3:00 a.m. and I couldn't get back to sleep. My youngest cat, Bugsy, kept jumping on my head, wanting to...
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Patti Hope
- Jul 20, 2021
- 2 min
The Six F's
It's weird meeting people for the first time. We're all naturally awkward about it. It's scary. We're all judging each other. I do not...
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Patti Hope
- Jun 3, 2021
- 2 min
The Great Unmasking
The signs in store windows are beginning to disappear. Events are starting back up. We are now being advised by the CDC that if we are...
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Patti Hope
- May 26, 2021
- 2 min
Lift a Glass to Our Teachers
(Originally posted April 15, 2020) We are on stay-at-home orders here in Florida due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so I told myself I'm going...
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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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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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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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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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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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Patti Hope
- Apr 15, 2020
- 2 min
Lift a Glass to Our Teachers
(Originally posted April 15, 2020) We are on stay-at-home orders here in Florida due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so I told myself I'm going...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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