Jessie Newburn – Jessie Newburn Writer

Not in Kansas anymore

Experiences4 days ago49Views 0Likes 0Comments

Moons back, when I was in my late 20s, my brother and sister were both teaching in Namibia, and my mother--in an expression of largesse and adventure--offered to cover the expenses for the four of us to take a trip together during an extended school break. So, off we went. We were stuffed into a VW Golf…

No wrong turns

UncategorizedMay 31, 202320Views 0Likes 0Comments

I had one of those things happen today. I was running some errands in Takoma Park and felt a need to get home, though I didn't have anything I had to do at any particular time. Ninety-nine, maybe 98, percent of the time I head home off Rt 32 a particular and specific way. Today -- I…

Style, an inside game

MemoriesMay 30, 202324Views 0Likes 0Comments

An image of this particular woman pops into my head every once in awhile. She's about 5' 7", short hair, long flowing pants, wedge shoes, a cute top, and she looked like a million bucks! It was 2002, and I was at a play in Lake Worth, Florida, where I lived for a smidge of time…

Predictions, hopes and the Lasso Way

Things I PonderMay 30, 2023159Views 0Likes 0Comments

Mere days until It ends. It, the show, the characters, their lives, the intertwining, the developments, the story arcs. How will it end? I don't know and assume I'll be happily surprised, but that hasn't stopped me from guessing. What about you? What do you see coming / hope happens as the final episode of Ted…

Mind, blown

MemoriesMay 28, 202321Views 0Likes 0Comments

Back when I was in high school, my family took a trip to visit my grandparents in San Diego. We went during the extended Christmas vacation time (that's what it was called back then), and I remember it being rather bizarre seeing Christmas lights on large cacti and palm trees. We didn't visit often, nor…

Fallen fruit

Stories big and smallMay 28, 202333Views 0Likes 1Comment

Decades back in a chapter of my life lived long ago, our family was visiting my father's parents in the San Diego area. Escondido to be specific, though I'm not sure that's a particularly relevant detail here. We didn't visit them often as 1) California was far away in a time before the internet, websites…

Random

Little BitsMay 27, 202317Views 0Likes 0Comments

Found. A Barbie Doll tucked into a fence at the Long Reach garden plot. What the heck! Art? A political statement? A lost-and-found. I don't know. Probably never will. Such is the randomness of life.

Eat!

Little BitsMay 21, 20237Views 0Likes 0Comments

Hah! Arrived home from this-ing and that-ing just in time to catch the tail end of my community's potluck gathering at the gazebo. Everyone had eaten their full, and I was encouraged to eat as much as I wanted. So I did. Cream cheese-stuffed mini peppers, avocado toast, blintzes, super-chocolatey little cupcakes, a pie made from a…

That’s Keny!

SynchronicitiesMay 21, 202396Views 1Like 0Comments

I swear: I was just doing a wee bit of grocery shopping. But then all this other stuff happened. I was at Whole Foods Friday afternoon, where--of late--I've been buying organic pork sausage on the regular. (Love their loose breakfast sausage.) The strawberries actually had some strawberry-smell to them, so I got a few packs of them,…

Ready!

Little BitsMay 19, 202335Views 0Likes 0Comments

Worth every minute of the labor to make this happen! From rusty and crusty to gorgeous and ready for cooking! Read up on the process, watched a video or two; made it happen.

Gonna miss ’em

CultchaMay 19, 2023179Views 0Likes 2Comments

In general, I'd rather ignore a TV show until it's played out, all seasons are done, rumors of a sequel have been squashed, and I can now binge-watch with wild abandon. That's just how I roll. But when I bought something* recently and got three free months of Apple TV with my purchase, I asked my…

Many grubs were eaten

ExperiencesMay 17, 202351Views 0Likes 0Comments

I spent much of the day at the two garden plots my mother and I share. She manages the plots and makes sure plants get planted at the right time, and I'm mostly labor. Today was a day of labor. Lots of weed killing and getting some rows articulated with some nice wood gifted to…