Category: Nature News

  • Open Road

    By Andrea Menzies
    Abusive cousin Zathyn screamed “Schizoid Girl Andrea” at me for 60 minutes this week. I have never had a schizophrenia diagnosis I had PTSD therapy years ago. (After I was raped in the military.) This is why I have been sensitive about my past lately it is because my cousin has been insulting me while yelling imagined problems all week. In addition he has been using my vehicle so much I can’t use it for work. My mother insists I share computers, food, and transportation with this family relative. The situation is getting worse daily. It is a vicious cycle because it is hard to save up money for a replacement car to drive on the open road if he is demanding car time the same hours I work. He describes me loudly on the phone as unemployed, only donating plasma, but I work as a teacher. He says he is better than me, but is using my family car to work. If he is doing so great he should get his own nice car, computer, and house by himself maybe? My Facebook got hacked right when he used my computer to watch “work videos” suspiciously. I see him as we share a vehicle. I live in an area with no bus service. Uber and Lyft are flaky and expensive. The roads have no bike lanes. It is hard to even try to bike to work in freezing ice during winter. Transportation problems become work issues really fast.

  • Irony In Motion

    By Andrea Menzies

    Irony In Motion

  • Dead Day

    When you feel dead for the day because you have a cold, but show up anyway.

  • Travel Cancelled

    By Andrea Menzies

    I had to do a temporary cancel on travel by Amtrak train and car pooling to see concerts as an Icy Death Snow Blast slammed Virginia a second week. If you can’t drive the roads or take trains well it is what it is, and you just have to deal with it. It strengthens my resolve to ride bikes more in Spring as stormy ice from excessive use of gas cars is blamed by scientists as a major cause of global warming by this good article “Why We Still Have Brutal Cold Snaps” by CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/15/climate/why-extreme-cold-during-global-warming/index.html

  • Top Teacher Photos of the Month

    By Andrea Menzies

    Here are my Top 10 Teacher Photos Of The Month. I have included a filter free photo of myself. I am still employed as a teacher, and I love how it uses my fully complete University degree from Loyola University New Orleans to help students daily. Heaven knows the huge amounts I owe in student loans verifies how long I have been to school.

  • Anti Prejudice Post

    By Andrea Menzies

    I am against prejudice in all its forms including racism, sexism, and religious persecution. The troubles in the middle east in the news have made saying this clearly more necessary lately. I had an ex boyfriend who became a narrow minded bigot, and many people falsely thought I agreed with him. It is very narrow minded and sexist to think all women share the politics of their worst ex boyfriend. Religious discrimination is the systematic mistreatment due to religious beliefs of people, and should NOT be tolerated in moderation times.

  • Week Of Trolls

    By Andrea Menzies

    This week I got particularly attacked by Internet troll gossip when mentioning I was single. Prejudice against women is very much alive if you are not a female clone of a Leave It To Beaver or Brady Bunch episode.

    Internet Troll Gossip
  • Happy New Year’s Eve To All

    By Andrea Menzies

    Happy New Year’s Eve To All! Here are some bike meet up park lunch photos for New Year’s Eve! Downtown in this area has been way too wild and violent for night events lately. I am just doing lunchtime meetings and BBQ for a while on weekends.

  • Happy Trails

    Happy Trails

    By Andrea Menzies

    My daughter Alexandria is visiting my aunt Jeannie in San Jose, California for part of Christmas Break. So far freezing airports didn’t block her in for travel, and she sent me an airport photo. Some weeks I am proud of being a single mother even if it is really expensive.

  • Family Thanks

    Family Thanks

    Thanks to my family Anne and Alexandria and my park bike club friends for many great gifts at this year’s frequent Christmas Holiday parties in Virginia.