August 16, 2022 DONATION UPDATE!!! First and foremost, a huge THANK YOU to everyone who donated, and to everyone who helped out! THE RECAP: We were supposed to go to Latvia in July, and hoped to fill our checked bags with diapers and feminine hygiene products that we were going to drop off directly to … More Facebook Post: August 16, 2022 and October 28, 2022
A lot of people have asked me this week, with varying degrees of seriousness, for a copy of “my plan.” So here it is: Eat Less, Move More: A Very Special Helga Without The H Weightloss Plan It’s right in the title, and it’s pretty simple: burn more calories than you consume. So the next … More Facebook Post: December 12, 2022
So I was working on my novel the other day (wahoo!), and I typed a sentence about a child born our of wedlock. A minute later I looked back and saw the blue bad-grammar squiggle mark under the word “bastard.” I didn’t see anything immediately wrong, so I clicked on it, and received a warning … More Facebook Post: June 25, 2021
Sit down and get comfy for a Very Long and Very Boring Saga! Earlier this year, I moved 5 blocks up the street. I went to the Virginia DMV website to update my address. The last time I used the Virginia DMV website was, apparently, several years ago. The Virginia DMV website forces you to … More Facebook Post: October 26, 2021
One of my new year’s resolutions this year is to visit museums. I live in the DC area, where I could probably go to a new museum every day of the year. But this past week I went on a ski trip to Pennsylvania, and something that’s been on my list since it opened roughly … More Museum Review: Flight 93 National Memorial
Four star review, originally posted here on January 20, 2024. This is really a 3.5 star rating. I am glad that Cheney wrote this book, and that I read it. I am glad to have one more record of the madness surrounding January 6th, and of the fight for the truth that followed (and continues … More Goodreads Review: Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney
One of my New Year’s Resolutions was to spend this year visiting museums. First up: a museum I’ve VERY much been looking forward to visiting for years. The one I was most psyched for. And, conveniently, the one closest to my own house. The honor of hosting the grand debut of Helga Without the H’s … More Museum Review: Alexandria Black History Museum
Four star review, originally posted here on January 11, 2024. First: Anyone who likes this book should also check out “Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival” by David Stark. Both are crazy stories about adventurers getting their asses kicked in the olden days. Second: … More Goodreads Review: The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
Four star review, originally posted here on March 29, 2023. The first several chapters of this book were very informative as Abrams describes everything that is wrong with our election system, and then proposes solutions. The last couple chapters drop off a bit, though, and seemed unfocused.
Five star review, originally posted here on March 23, 2023. This book was recommended to me by a coworker, which made me instantly skeptical. Most of the time when people recommend a book for me specifically, it totally misses the mark, and I feel bad. The friend described the book as “Jane Austen gets guns … More Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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