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O Come, All Ye Faithful

Memories, SynchronicitiesDecember 23, 20232KViews 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, 20232KViews 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, 20231KViews 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, 202338KViews 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, 20231KViews 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, 20231KViews 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, 20231KViews 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…

Slinging slop (CJ #1)

ExperiencesDecember 15, 20232KViews 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, 20231KViews 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, 20232KViews 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, 20232KViews 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, 20231KViews 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…