Covoid

The emptiness in a life, a city, a country, caused by the Covid virus.

So much that had filled their lives was gone for the moment, leaving an enormous Covoid.

by Monkey's Dad March 29, 2020

stay-at-home kid

Every American child in the coronaviral moment.

With his stay-at-home Mom and his stay-at-home Dad, he was now a stay-at-home kid. Watching cartoons and playing video games, he was unsure as to why they both seemed so anxious. That was only for a while. Wasn't it?

by Monkey's Dad March 17, 2020

like a deer in the headlines

The facial expression we have come to know - panic-stricken, wide-eyed and immobilized, not knowing which way to run, realizing that your crimes, sins and errors of judgement are suddenly America's number one topic.

The movie mogul had figured no one would ever talk, and if they did, who would believe them, yet here he stood, cameras on him from all sides, barraged by shouting reporters, like a deer in the headlines.

by Monkey's Dad February 27, 2020

simcognition

A form of knowledge occurring independently of temporal position; a simultemporal incident of cognition, on par with recognition and precognition. It is an experience reported by many people as feeling instantaneous.

She knew him the instant she saw him. The flash of connection was identical to the sensation of encountering someone she had known for years, complete in its essence, lacking only detail. It was not without substance or meaning, carrying its own truth. She came to think of it as simcognition, knowledge upon first sight.

by Monkey's Dad April 11, 2021

libado

The sexual urges you are told when young are sinful, and that you are not supposed to feel, but hey.

Staring into the stern, reprimanding face of Sister Mary-Grace, she wondered if her libado was visible, thinking, as she was, such forbidden thoughts.

by Monkey's Dad March 05, 2020

We can breathe

The deep American exhalation, after too long a period in which I can't breathe was true for too many, for so many reasons.

We CAN Breathe, today, November 7, 2020

by Monkey's Dad November 07, 2020

p-Phone

The Pavlov smartphone. It pings, buzzes, vibrates or rings and you JUMP! to respond.

Named for Ivan Pavlov, a Nobel-winning Russian physiologist famous for his work in classical conditioning.

To his eternal astonishment, she was incapable of ignoring her p-Phone, no matter the circumstance.

by Monkey's Dad October 14, 2020