What an odd site to come upon: a recently dead bluejay on the side of the road. I'm guessing it was hit by a car or truck and killed, but, then again, I'm guessing. Could have been poisoned by some something or other.
Jessie Newburn
Drawers and containers
Most people pack their bags and suitcases rather tightly when they are preparing for Burning Man. So what happens when you get there? You open your suitcase or bin and go digging through all that tightly packed gear for an item or two. You take a few things out of your bins…
This simple meal keeps me sustained. It’s my go-to meal/snack, morning, noon or night when I needed something quick, tasty and nutritious. Here’s the simplest version of what I make, and, as you can probably see, variations abound.
The eggs, like my photo orientation, are scrambled. Ingredients
1 good egg
½ cup of cooked rice…
Moons back, when I was in my late 20s, my brother and sister were both teaching in Namibia, and my mother--in an expression of largesse and adventure--offered to cover the expenses for the four of us to take a trip together during an extended school break.
So, off we went.
We were stuffed into a VW Golf…
As the final episodes of Ted Lasso came upon us, I found myself in a state of longing to know how the story unfolded with an unexpected sadness for the story to come to an end. I found myself searching the internet for some show-ending predictions, to see if they matched up with what I…
I had one of those things happen today.
I was running some errands in Takoma Park and felt a need to get home, though I didn't have anything I had to do at any particular time.
Ninety-nine, maybe 98, percent of the time I head home off Rt 32 a particular and specific way. Today -- I…
An image of this particular woman pops into my head every once in awhile. She's about 5' 7", short hair, long flowing pants, wedge shoes, a cute top, and she looked like a million bucks!
It was 2002, and I was at a play in Lake Worth, Florida, where I lived for a smidge of time…
Mere days until It ends. It, the show, the characters, their lives, the intertwining, the developments, the story arcs. How will it end? I don't know and assume I'll be happily surprised, but that hasn't stopped me from guessing.
What about you? What do you see coming / hope happens as the final episode of Ted…
Back when I was in high school, my family took a trip to visit my grandparents in San Diego. We went during the extended Christmas vacation time (that's what it was called back then), and I remember it being rather bizarre seeing Christmas lights on large cacti and palm trees.
We didn't visit often, nor…
Decades back in a chapter of my life lived long ago, our family was visiting my father's parents in the San Diego area. Escondido to be specific, though I'm not sure that's a particularly relevant detail here. We didn't visit them often as 1) California was far away in a time before the internet, websites…
Found. A Barbie Doll tucked into a fence at the Long Reach garden plot.
What the heck! Art? A political statement? A lost-and-found. I don't know. Probably never will. Such is the randomness of life.
Hah! Arrived home from this-ing and that-ing just in time to catch the tail end of my community's potluck gathering at the gazebo. Everyone had eaten their full, and I was encouraged to eat as much as I wanted.
So I did.
Cream cheese-stuffed mini peppers, avocado toast, blintzes, super-chocolatey little cupcakes, a pie made from a…