Jessie Newburn – Jessie Newburn Writer

Where’s the beef?

Cultcha, PoliticsAugust 29, 2026176Views 0Likes 0Comments

Over the years, I've learned to translate Trump. Here's my take on his beef-me-fix social media post attached here: "A nasty monopoly" Translated: "The four packing monopolies haven't paid me, my children or my political campaign grift-machine the money I demanded of them. Nor have they contributed sufficiently to my ballroom, arch, Mt Rushmore gold-paint makeover or…

63 in 1963

ExperiencesAugust 28, 202696Views 0Likes 0Comments

Hah! Although all our birthdays marking a another year happen but once, my mother, mentioned to me this one had a wee little zing in it. She had been watching a special on Martin Luther King, Jr., earlier in the day wherein someone being interviewed mentioned it was 63 years ago, in 1963, that Dr. King…

Eclipting

ExperiencesAugust 27, 2026108Views 0Likes 0Comments

Be my birthday tomorrow, the 28th, it is, it is. Gonna start off with watching the lunar eclipse outside tonight, in some place with a reasonably clear horizon not filled with trees. The eclipse starts around 10:30 pm tonight and then will be full (well, 95 percent) at 12:12 a.m. I've seen a lunar eclipse before. Pretty. Red.…

Maryland is a cult. Not a state.

Little BitsAugust 27, 202686Views 0Likes 0Comments

Maryland is, imo, a great place to live. The state is sometimes referred to as 'America in Miniature.' In such a relatively small state we have so much going on! So much diversity of land, people and plants. So many places to adventure and explore within a few hours' drive: mountains, meadows, beaches and the bay, to…

A Two-fer

NatureAugust 27, 202675Views 0Likes 0Comments

A two-fer! One grapevine leaf, two sets of stinkbug eggs. Now, in a plastic bag in the trash. Also, for what it’s worth, I got this insect identifier app a few weeks ago, and it is worth its weight in gold, so to speak. It’s called Picture Insect, and I have used it quite a few times of…

Em-dashes FTW!

On life as a writerAugust 24, 202689Views 0Likes 0Comments

Last year, I wrote a piece about generational changes and correlating changes in the Burning Man culture. I spent hours writing the piece. Folks found it, shared it, commented on it. Some liked what I said and agreed wholeheartedly; others hated it. Whatever. But what threw me--nay, offended me greatly--was the number of people who thought it was…

Movin’ to the Sun

CultchaAugust 18, 2026164Views 0Likes 0Comments

Sound on! https://www.instagram.com/p/DbYQ9YDIcKu/ This beatbox video came into my IG feed a day or two ago. Not quite sure why. I don't follow any musicians, to my knowledge. I'm not overly interested in music, per se. But there it was. I watched it. I watched again. And again. I love it. The quality of their work/art, the way the…

I've been a writer all my life. I've worked in communications and marketing for companies and organizations. I've had (have) my own business offering freelance writing services. And I've done tons of community-service work with my writing. While it may not seem like community service, per se, to one not in the know, one of the biggest,…

The sweet taste of bitter

NatureAugust 18, 2026127Views 0Likes 0Comments

Oh, the rabbit holes down which I go. Of late, I've been attempting to make my own bitters. It has been rather easy to make the initial one-ingredient extractions. Taking things to the next level of blends has been a bit more challenging ... and not as alluring as I might have to actually think about…

Pawpaws a plenty

NatureAugust 18, 2026102Views 0Likes 0Comments

I love the night sounds of Maryland's High Summer! The cicadas, crickets and katydids. Last night, in order to soak up as much of these sounds while I could, I spent a few hours transplanting many a pawpaw seedling I planted this spring into stand-alone containers, getting them ready now to be transplanted to their forever…

I done did a thing

ExperiencesAugust 17, 202694Views 0Likes 0Comments

Up until August 2025, I had never knee-boarded behind a motor boat. I didn't grow up in a water-, boat- or ocean-focused family, despite living rather close to a whole, whole lot of fresh, brackish and sea water. I did not pursue such activities of kneeboarding, wakeboarding or jetski-ing in my young adulthood years.…

Make play while the sun shines

Experiences, NatureAugust 17, 202680Views 0Likes 0Comments

Other than my pool-chlorine saturated youth, wherein the Thunder Hill neighborhood pool served as playground, babysitter and launchpad for endless underwater adventures as I cosplayed--best I could with my superball serving as a magical pearl--Neptina from 'Marine Boy,' I haven't had a very water-based life. An occasional boat ride here or there. An occasional trip to…