Hey, there. I’m Brooke Ramey Nelson, a native Texan, former journalist, politico, PR person and high school teacher, who joined Medium in December 2020 to get back to what I’ve always loved to do — wrassling words.
I thought about starting this essay with the traditional greeting of my forebears…
Dear Mr. Williams:
Perhaps I’m slow on the uptake. Or just plain stupid. But after almost a year’s worth of word-wrangling on your platform I’m still in the dark about the compensation thing.
You know, the cold hard cash you deposit into the coffers of my local account? …
Dateline MAR-A-STINKO, in the Land of Make Believe, November 24, 2021 — Donald “J as in Jerkoff” Trump, aka Comrade Minus, announced Wednesday that he is throwing the buffet at his elite gold-plated, turd-in-the-pool paradise open to the general public on Thanksgiving Day,
After learning most of his dues-paying so-called…
Did you know that at least 44 percent of all Americans between the ages of 18–49 say they’re not planning to have children? Three years ago, that number was 37 percent. About 3.6 million babies were born here last year, the lowest U.S. birth rate since 1979.
Maybe these stats…
Sometimes, I search
in
crooked
Circles.
No one told me
my “Fortunes”
would ever come to pass
in a cookie confection
of egg whites, extracts, sugar and butter.
Water and Flour, of course,
were never, ever, optional.
The recipe tells me, though,
that there’s more to it than that.
I’d…
