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For hire, I am

Other WritingDecember 29, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I love writing. You'd think I'd like reading more, and I do love books. Don't get me wrong: Books have been a part of my life from the get-go when, somehow, my self-proclaimed, not-much-of-a-reader mom had the instinct and intuition to get reading and books into my life and that of my siblings, early on. (She…

Born, not made

Little BitsDecember 29, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

There's a movie out now. A psychological drama, of sorts. Not gonna say which, but folks be talkin' about it a bit online and such as it is one that makes you think. For those who've seen it, the story provides a great reminder that psychopaths are real. They are not "made" or formed by ill-luck…

Graphological curiosities

Tips for an Orderly LifeDecember 28, 2023984Views 0Likes 0Comments

When I was a young girl, perhaps around my budding teen years, a particular advertisement on TV mesmerized me: it was an ad for handwriting analysis. Would-be customers needed to write out a paragraph or so of text, sign it and mail this paper to the posted address. Then, some weeks later, an analysis of…

Get yourself one

Tips for an Orderly LifeDecember 27, 2023825Views 0Likes 0Comments

Beloved, wonderful people, I have said this before, and I believe I will likely say this many times going forward: CASTLEFLEXX. Get yourself a CastleFlexx. Use the CastleFlexx. Explore what's possible with the CastleFlexx. Get your friends and family to get a CastleFlexx. Spread the word far and wide: CastleFlexx. There is nothing, nothing, nothing out there like the CastleFlexx. Get the annual…

Ever Better and me

Little BitsDecember 27, 2023844Views 0Likes 0Comments

Clearing out old emails and notes long piled up and I found this link to a podcast interview I did a few years ago with the Ever Better folks. Says the site: '"Jessie Newburn is a Gen Xer who has embraced the gig economy! Sometimes it seems like all eyes are on millennials and baby boomers,…

O Come, All Ye Faithful

Memories, SynchronicitiesDecember 23, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Some decades ago in my life (likely in the mid 1990s-ish), I received an invitation to a somewhat fancy event down in Northeast D.C. for some purpose and cause about which I have no specific memory. The person who invited me to this somewhat fancy event, Susan Gore, was deeply involved in academia and Women's…

Culture change is cyclical and teen sexual activity is, too

CultchaDecember 22, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

When you understand generations as ARCHETYPES, When you know that culture change--and all its attendant data points--are cyclical, and When you can see the underlying patterns and tides of change through such a lens, ---> Then articles such as this one about the decline of teen sexual activity, from the National…

The Fare

CultchaDecember 19, 2023898Views 0Likes 0Comments

Wow! I ain't givin' no spoilers on The Fare (and I'd recommend you watch the movie first without knowing what's going on), but WOW! What a story! What a love story! If you know a bit of Greek mythology, do tune in to many a subtle clue. :) And for as mundane and blah as…

Pretty. Boring.

CultchaDecember 18, 202333KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I saw Wonka earlier today. Eh. Almost fell asleep mid-point. It's a pretty film. Visual. Colorful. Fun. And I found it rather boring. I had a nice holiday-gathering type of afternoon--a movie and dinner with some friends. Overall, a lovely afternoon, but I'm comfortable saying you can miss Wonka and not miss…

As it is

Things I PonderDecember 16, 2023795Views 0Likes 0Comments

There are weeks when barely a whisper of motivation to write comes my way. And there are hours, days and times when the floodgates are open, and I can do naught but write.

Early Santa trauma

MemoriesDecember 16, 2023907Views 0Likes 0Comments

I don't have--to my current knowledge--many memories of my six-and-under life (and that's fairly normal, I believe, as the brains of children six and under are in somewhat of a pre-memory, hypnagogic state of learn-learn-learn and not so much remember-remember-remember), but I do have a memory from when I was maybe five, maybe six. It…

What would you rather?

Things I PonderDecember 15, 2023884Views 0Likes 0Comments

In a world clamoring for likes and clicks, opens and conversions, how does one measure opening one person's mind -- even if just a smidge -- with words we write, stories we share and new perspectives provided? I'll take the latter: the unseen and unknowable ripple over the stats. At least when it comes to my own…