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Ever so deserving

Little BitsJanuary 4, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

When my father died a few years ago and left a muddled and messy estate behind, we desperately needed an estate lawyer. As the estates's personal representative, I asked a lawyer whose opinion I trusted (Sherae McNeal) for a recommendation, and she encouraged me to contact Jessica M. Gorsky. I did. And of the many decisions…

Take it down a notch, please

Little BitsJanuary 3, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Yesterday I had an appointment at an office that has quite a few patients come through in a given day. Someone had come into the office before me -- whether that was an hour before, two hours before ... IDK. But I do know they were wearing some sort of scent. Some perfume or…

My mom’s art

Little BitsJanuary 3, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

My mother is an artist. (She's also many other things, but she is an artist, for sure.) I just love her work! When she was a child in an immigrant-rich, crowded and filled-to-the-gills, coal-mining town in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, her tiny elementary school provided art and music classes one day a month. As my mom tells it, the…

The mother of invention

Tips for an Orderly LifeJanuary 3, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Now that the winter holidays season has mostly passed, I can speak. I'm not saying when or where this happened, but I will say that I was able to offload a what-am-I-gonna-do-with-this? bottle of spiked eggnog that was brought to a small holiday party at my place, (but not taken home by the bringer of said…

Seed-lending library love

Little BitsJanuary 2, 20241KViews 1Like 0Comments

For the past few months, anytime anyone in our (small, but mighty) family spoke with my sister Rebecca, we got an earful about the Global Seed Library Census project she was spearheading. Well, it's finally done and published! Long a seed-saver herself, my sister founded Richmond Grows Seed-lending Library in the Bay Area in 2010. That…

Xena! … and friend

CultchaJanuary 2, 20241KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I came home this evening from running some errands and wanted to watch a little TV while eating dinner before I began a project on my radar this evening. I've heard Neil Howe (the generations expert at whose feet I bow) mention Xena: Warrior Princess quite a few times in talking about the Gen X archetype…

From this broken hill

CultchaDecember 31, 20232KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Leonard Cohen is one of my favorite singers of all time. I've danced to his music, cried to his music and felt connected to the full spectrum of humanity listening to his music. As I imagine it does with others, his Hallelujah song reaches into the center of my being, raising me up to the…

For hire, I am

Other WritingDecember 29, 20232KViews 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, 20232KViews 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, 20232KViews 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, 20231KViews 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, 20231KViews 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,…