Author Archives: Betty Fokker

About Betty Fokker

I'm a stay-at-home feminist mom.

Oklahoma gave tax breaks to Big Oil instead of using the money to build tornado shelters in schools.

Posted on May 23, 2013

Moore, OK has been mown down by tornados before. In the first week of May in 1999 it was one of several cities/suburbs/towns in Oklahoma that had big ol’ twisters rip through it like the buildings were made of wet … Continue reading →

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I am too sad to write a happy post

Posted on May 21, 2013

I was planning on blogging about the fun and happiness of Lilo’s play today, but I can’t. My heart is too heavy to find the words. I am grief-stricken about the children lost in the Oklahoma tornadoes, including the seven … Continue reading →

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Bliss for Rudolf

Posted on May 20, 2013

Sweet Babou was wonderfully contrite after our little kerfuffle on Thursday. He apologized for being grumpy and out of sorts, and I apologized for being snide. He assured me my “loud talking” was only an issue when it was happening … Continue reading →

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Play Tonight!

Posted on May 17, 2013

Hello all! Sweet Babou was very contrite and I got cuddled and now the dishwasher is magically emptying without me even asking. So, normal married life yeah? My parents are outside with Spock right now. Spoiling her rotten. I decided … Continue reading →

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Lip Trembling

Posted on May 16, 2013

Sweet Babou and I don’t fight often. Every few years we have a “big” fight, which is always weird because we subsequently can’t remember WHY were fighting. Then every few months we have a “pissy” fight. That’s a small tiff … Continue reading →

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Needing some happy up in here

Posted on May 14, 2013

Right. I am tired of sad things and depressing crap. I am by gum gonna talk about happy shit today. So, in the first round of good news, they may have invented a nanotechnology to conquer Type 1 diabetes and … Continue reading →

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Updated but not Uptown

Posted on May 13, 2013

I had a wonderful Mother’s Day. The girls and Sweet Babou went out of their way to make it a day of raw awesome and I am thankful for all of it. Just having them in my lives is reward … Continue reading →

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This Sucks All the Goat Balls

Posted on May 10, 2013

I’m heading out for the visitation/funeral, and will be back later tonight. I am already frazzled so everyone send me anti-stress rays of profound calm. Or good luck for when I swing a right hook that’ll knock a bitch on … Continue reading →

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Loss

Posted on May 9, 2013

My friend Linda, really more of a “Aunt” because she and my mother are as close as sisters, passed away Tuesday morning.  It’s made it hard to blog, or to do much really, because sorrow & weepy have come to … Continue reading →

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Prefer no news, thanks

Posted on May 7, 2013

Yesterday felt like it was full to the brim with bad news. It’s a distortion, but that’s how my brain received the crapton of shitty information that poured down. First, I found out my friend Linda was being given hospice … Continue reading →

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