Author Archives: muffybolding

“It’s silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons.” — Henry Miller, Op-Ed page, N.Y. Times, September … Continue reading →

WORD. “Art is either plagiarism or revolution.” — Paul Gauguin

“This isn’t right. This isn’t even wrong.” — Physicist Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by an apparently inept colleague

“Shameless Old Trollops” for $600, Alex. ‪#‎backoffmanimfromfresno‬

As I sit here all alone in a hotel room — far from home — and write about my family and myself and my past…I am looking at photographs of the magical, tragic, fabulous kin from whence I came — … Continue reading →

Oh, my stars. Every couple months, when I remember that it even exists, I like to pour myself a mighty cup o’ joe and sit down and read that weird, inexplicable “message requests” option in my Facebook messages. Apparently it’s … Continue reading →

HA! DEAD. ON. Like I always say, it’s NOTHING short of a goddamned miracle that any of us with siblings even survive into adulthood with all of our fingers, eyeballs, and brain matter intact MUCH LESS SURVIVE INTO FUCKING ADULTHOOD. … Continue reading →

A couple of months ago, I rewatched the movie, Titanic — and in doing so, discovered how very much the years have changed me. I was surprised to find that I wasn’t nearly so caught up in the romance between … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, Gregory and I were lying in bed watching “Woodstock”, the documentary — and although I tried my very best to get into the spirit and the beauty, I was just not getting anything either stardust … Continue reading →

Inane Muff Fact #427: When I was a little girl growing up in Fresno, California, I really and truly and with all my heart thought that Foster Farms was a home for unwanted chickens. I would always PLEAD with my … Continue reading →