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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...
Patti Hope
Aug 22, 20223 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Jul 20, 20212 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Jun 3, 20212 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
May 26, 20212 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Sep 25, 20202 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Sep 11, 20201 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Aug 7, 20201 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Jul 22, 20202 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Jun 29, 20201 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
May 6, 20202 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Apr 15, 20202 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Apr 1, 20201 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Mar 26, 20202 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Mar 18, 20201 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Mar 12, 20202 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Mar 4, 20201 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Feb 26, 20202 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Feb 19, 20201 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Feb 12, 20202 min read
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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...
Patti Hope
Jan 5, 20202 min read
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