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This price ain’t right

Things I PonderSeptember 4, 20232KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Shopping earlier today at a local thrift store--as I do here and there--I spotted this bit of ridiculousness. A cheap, thin, no-big-deal shirt originally priced at $5 got priced by someone at 2nd Avenue Thrift Store at a whopping $11.99. That's more than double the original retail price of the item. How does that make any…

JOMO

Burning Man, NatureSeptember 3, 20234KViews 0Likes 0Comments

JOMO. Apparently, it's a term, a word, an acronym that has been around for awhile, though it's one I only heard for the first time last night at a party of mostly Burners-not-at-Burning-Man who had gathered--as happens often--on "Burn Night" (the last Saturday during Burning Man when The Man burns). JOMO is the JOY of Missing…

So many moons!

SynchronicitiesAugust 30, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

How's this for fabulous? I met for lunch earlier today Jean Moon , my mentor and client from decades back and someone with whom I hadn't caught up for several years. (It was wonderful. Seeing her was soul-filling, and The Turn House in Columbia, where we met, has such…

A bigger world

Burning Man, ExperiencesAugust 29, 20232KViews 1Like 0Comments

First, to all of you who wrote on my Facebook timeline or sent me messages on my birthday, thank you! It's wonderful and overwhelming at the same time. As one who spent years (decades) under-celebrating her life, hiding in group photos, twisting my priorities to put other's needs before my own, and basically trying…

Six Zero

ExperiencesAugust 29, 20232KViews 3Likes 0Comments

The minutes are ticking by. Less than an hour until the proverbial clock strikes midnight and August 28th becomes August 29th. Today, while the minutes tick on toward 12 midnight, is my birthday. I've had visions-thoughts-ideas in my head. for at least the last week or two, that I would write something Big, something Important, perhaps…

Shall I see tomorrow?

Little BitsAugust 29, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Holy smokes! I made it to 60, but almost not 60 and one day! I made a dry rub for a piece of pork shoulder butt I'm cooking. The rub called for cayenne, which I didn't have ... literally; what I did have was another dried pepper and a hot one! …

The orange cat!

Little BitsAugust 23, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

You know how you sometimes find something -- a meme, a joke, a video ... something -- that makes you laugh. And then it makes you laugh even harder and more when you watch again and again That's how I feel about this video. And this compilation video of the same three cats--and the…

Recombobulating?

Things I PonderAugust 23, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

My mind wonders: If someone can get DIScombobulated... Can they then get REcombobulated? I kinda feel like I'm doing that as I unpack from yet another absolutely fabulous 10-day trip -- this time to the beach (Ocean City, Maryland ... which is a really quite a lovely beach and yet another wonderful asset in Maryland living,) with near-perfect…

Rain at Burning Man

Burning Man, ExperiencesAugust 21, 20234KViews 1Like 0Comments

It rains during Burning Man. Not much. Not often, but it does. It rained the first evening on the first night of the first year I attended Burning Man. The rain came around 5:30 p.m., the temperature plummeted, I put on every single piece of remotely warm clothing I had packed -- my Uggs boots, my…

Hammered … and helped

ExperiencesAugust 19, 2023848Views 0Likes 0Comments

I don't know where you stand on the subject of "your guides," or angels, or helpers or, let's just go big, and say God Him/Her/Itself, but I've had an experience or two (or a bazillion) where some form of protection and support sure seemed to play a hand in my experience. I'll tell you such a…

Reaching for the skies … and bringing everyone along with her

Other WritingAugust 15, 20232KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Here is the link to the Laurel Independent printed feature story I wrote about Melinda Lee, principal of Laurel Elementary School. The story is page 8. And here is the full and longer story I wrote, below. ______ Reaching for the skies … and bringing everyone along with her Melinda Lee Retires after 22 Years as…

Whaaaat?

ExperiencesAugust 15, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I'm sitting here this morning, going what? what? what did I eat yesterday that has my face so puffy this morning and my body feeling a bit inflamed? I wracked my brain (well, for about 47 seconds). Couldn't think of anything. Also couldn't remember what I ate except that bowl of steaming chipped beef in nama…