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Slinging slop (CJ #1)

ExperiencesDecember 15, 2023944Views 0Likes 0Comments

College job #1 Last night, a wee bit high and journaling, I started thinking about jobs I held in college and my coming-of-age years. I started listing them best I could remember. I was surprised by how many jobs I'd had. There were also gaps in my chronology and spots where I wrote "probably some…

Thank ’em!

Little BitsDecember 14, 2023963Views 0Likes 0Comments

I like to make balms and salves. Really good ones with really fabulous ingredients. I make them for myself, for friends and -- come the winter holiday season -- for many of the helpers, seen and unseen, in my life. In recent years, come early December, I put out a box full of various balms in…

Are you a friend of Tonga?

Other WritingDecember 14, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Here's a story I wrote for The Laurel Independent newspaper printed each month and distributed locally. It's about Friends of Tonga and the good work they're doing to support educational opportunities, water-scarcity issues and community resiliency. They've got a wonderful "Read Aloud" program where people such as yourself can (in about an hour or less) read a…

I can’t wear yellow

Tips for an Orderly LifeDecember 14, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Many people say such things as "I can't wear yellow." And that just ain't true. You need to know which yellow you "get" in your seasonal color palette. For example, I'm a soft, smoky, rosy, cool "summer," and I get one yellow: primrose. Cool winters, who shine in the clear, bright, vivid and icy colors, get one…

Making beds (CJ #3)

ExperiencesDecember 14, 2023892Views 0Likes 0Comments

College Job #3 My 18-year-old self naively assumed once I left my parents' home for college, I was out--gone, coming back just for holidays and special events. And as my freshman spring semester came to a close, and others in my dorm were packing up to head home for summer break, I realized I needed…

Pouring drafts (CJ #2)

ExperiencesDecember 14, 2023822Views 0Likes 0Comments

College job #2 My second job in college was also a work-study job in the same dining hall, except it was at night when the dining hall was transformed into a bar. Or maybe there was a bar and meeting on the side of the dining hall. I don't recall. In any case, it was…

Revival

CultchaDecember 13, 2023878Views 0Likes 0Comments

Hmm. Interesting. Vivo Barefoot is refurbishing worn and returned shoes and reselling them. Interesting. I do love the brand they created for this effort-RE-Vivo. I mean, is that brilliant, or what? On an eco/ethical/marketing level, it's quite the concept and practice. Noteworthy, even. Alas, the pricing is more just like waiting for an eventual sale. But the concept is…

A dollar a pound

Memories, Things I PonderDecember 13, 2023959Views 0Likes 0Comments

In another era and another time, long before sites such as ebay, Poshmark and even Facebook Marketplace allowed people to resell items online and find buyers far and wide with relative ease, thrift stores and used-clothing stores were different. Really different. In that other era and in that other time, the for-profit invasion--and in many ways,…

There she is!

SynchronicitiesDecember 12, 2023872Views 0Likes 0Comments

I visited UMBC's campus earlier today to meet up with their magazine's managing editor and photographer for a photoshoot they were doing for an article I wrote about one of their alum, Chandra Smith, who was recently crowned Ms. Wheelchair America 2024 (among many other accomplishments). After the shoot, we were waiting with her for a…

My first Santarchy

Burning Man, ExperiencesDecember 11, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Back in the day when I was new to a divorce, new to reclaiming my life, new to the hula hoop and new to the very small community of hoopers I'd met along the way, I was also new to the Burning Man community. Very new. I'd recently attended my first Burner-inspired event in a rife-with-fire-hazards…

Besties

CultchaDecember 11, 2023804Views 0Likes 0Comments

This happened last night. I had a small gathering and one of my guests arrived with the combo pack of Martha's Chard and Snoop's Cab, which I thought was cute. But little did I know when you focus your camera on the bottle, a whole AR Snoop-talkin/Martha-talkin' thing happens. A novelty? A…

Coinky-dink?

SynchronicitiesDecember 10, 2023486Views 0Likes 0Comments

I've been watching "Young Sheldon" and as with many shows, the same ads are shown again and again. And again. It's a thing. They inundate you with the same ads, endlessly. So imagine my surprise when after watching this show and the Max channel for the past month or so and being rather attenuated to the…