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GenerationsMarch 12, 2024152Views 0Likes 0Comments

Life, I find, is just that much more interesting when you understand generational archetypes and where each of them is "located in time" now. I recently watched the new Cinderella movie (2015) and noticed right away how the story line/movie had been updated to be in cultural alignment to the archetypal temperaments of the 18-and-under, After-the-Millennials…

The old must die

Cultcha, GenerationsMarch 10, 2024190Views 0Likes 0Comments

I cannot recommend, encourage or hope enough that you read The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End. Soon. Now. Read it. Listen to it. (I love the audiobook version.) Big changes are afoot. Even bigger changes are a'comin'. Things will be hard. Harder than hard.…

Friendship spawns mushroom business and more

Other WritingMarch 7, 2024198Views 0Likes 0Comments

Originally published in The Laurel Independent newspaper. When Laurel resident Cory Moore accompanied a friend to a birthday party in 2017, he had no idea his life was about to change. Nor did the birthday girl, Elizabeth Robinson, who is also a long-time Laurel resident. The two developed a fast friendship, and as the months…

Run, run, run

Memories, SynchronicitiesFebruary 20, 2024113Views 0Likes 0Comments

There are many miracles in life. Big ones and small ones, gargantuan ones and micro ones. Many of these miracles, in my experience, are matters of timing and synchronicity. Yet whether large or small, life-altering or microscopic, the thing about these miracles is that in the moment, they are just that: a miracle, a blessing, a…

Be careful what you ask for

MemoriesFebruary 16, 2024148Views 0Likes 0Comments

When I was a wee one, maybe four or five, my mom had gone back to work as a nurse, and she needed to find a babysitter / kid watcher for me. A nearby neighbor whose young kids were at home fit the bill, and so I went there day after day, to her home. I…

When you lose the Xers …

GenerationsFebruary 15, 2024178Views 0Likes 0Comments

I saw an article earlier today about ageism at work in which the author spoke about how companies lose that built-in wisdom and know-how when it leans favorably toward hiring younger workers over older workers. I agree. Though I'd add the problem is equally, if not more so, generational. As companies bring on more Millennials, who are great…

Time Worked and Value Created

GenerationsFebruary 14, 202480Views 0Likes 0Comments

I saw this image and a related post on LinkedIn earlier today, and it made me pause and think a moment. So much of our experience of the outer world is generational in nature, both in that we are influenced by other generations and we bring our collective generational experiences to those situations and respond…

My Trip to the Costco Soulmate Trading Outlet

ExperiencesFebruary 14, 2024793Views 0Likes 0Comments

While there are many hundreds of camps offering a near-endless variety of experiences, gifts, fun, food, art and adventure at Burning Man, there are certain camps that are legendary. The Costco Soulmate Trading Camp--Co(stco) S(oulmate) T(rading) O(utlet) camp, or Costco as it is lovingly and facetiously called for short--is one of them. In the five prior…

Scammed

Things I PonderJanuary 31, 2024200Views 0Likes 1Comment

I fell for a scam yesterday. I realized I'd done so minutes after it happened, contacted PayPal right away, and they refunded my money. The scam was promoted in an ad on Facebook. It's a site selling reduced-cost USPS forever stamps that are a few years old under the guise of clearing out old inventory. It sure…

Country roads, take me home

Memories, SynchronicitiesJanuary 29, 2024148Views 0Likes 0Comments

While I always figured myself to be the type of person who'd never-ever travel somewhere by bus, wearing an ID card around my neck, Life has a way of surprising you; and there I was, one day--one night, actually--in Shanghai, China, with a lanyard around my neck and an Orange Bus #2 ID attached to…

The not-so-secret ingredient

Little BitsJanuary 26, 202497Views 0Likes 0Comments

I know there is much celebration and delight in the whole Brussels sprouts plus bacon plus balsamic vinegar recipe realm; and I like that, too. For starters, I do enjoy many in the brassica family of vegetables--cabbage, cauliflower, collards, Brussels sprouts, kale and rutabagas. (What an under-appreciated root vegetable rutabagas currently are.) Then there's the bacon. I…

Gooey goodness

Little BitsJanuary 26, 202492Views 0Likes 0Comments

My, my, my! In my attempts to make some jalapeño simple syrup (which I've made before and is quite easy to make), I had put some sugar, water and jalapeños on the stove on low heat ... and then went to watch some Jessica Jones and work on my taxes. During…