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That’s Keny!

SynchronicitiesMay 21, 20231KViews 1Like 0Comments

I swear: I was just doing a wee bit of grocery shopping. But then all this other stuff happened. I was at Whole Foods Friday afternoon, where--of late--I've been buying organic pork sausage on the regular. (Love their loose breakfast sausage.) The strawberries actually had some strawberry-smell to them, so I got a few packs of them,…

Ready!

Little BitsMay 19, 2023826Views 0Likes 0Comments

Worth every minute of the labor to make this happen! From rusty and crusty to gorgeous and ready for cooking! Read up on the process, watched a video or two; made it happen.

Gonna miss ’em

Burning Man, CultchaMay 19, 20232KViews 0Likes 0Comments

In general, I'd rather ignore a TV show until it's played out, all seasons are done, rumors of a sequel have been squashed, and I can now binge-watch with wild abandon. That's just how I roll. But when I bought something* recently and got three free months of Apple TV with my purchase, I asked my…

Many grubs were eaten

ExperiencesMay 17, 2023952Views 0Likes 0Comments

I spent much of the day at the two garden plots my mother and I share. She manages the plots and makes sure plants get planted at the right time, and I'm mostly labor. Today was a day of labor. Lots of weed killing and getting some rows articulated with some nice wood gifted to…

Reaching for the skies

NatureMay 15, 2023897Views 0Likes 0Comments

I've seen a lot of dandelions in my life. Countless! I know a "normal" dandelion when I see one. I was weeding in a patch of tall lilies when I saw this monstrosity. This is the length—pun intended—to which a dandelion weed will grow when it is battling for its survival and sunshine amidst a patch…

Rotten

Tips for an Orderly LifeMay 13, 2023872Views 0Likes 0Comments

You know that horrible (horrible, horrible) taste when an avocado starts to turn? Yeah, the one where even a smidge of it mixed in with the rest of the avocado just ruins the whole thing? That! Well, in a most mysterious of situations, I have found myself with a half dozen perfectly ripe-looking, perfectly ripe-feeling, completely-sans-brown-spots…

Perfunctory potato purchases

ExperiencesMay 12, 2023840Views 0Likes 0Comments

I was digging in the back of one of my kitchen cupboards yesterday and moving some things around when my mind said, "I wonder what's in this paper bag?" I opened and saw the spidery-est looking potatoes I'd ever seen, thus answering the question about what was in the bag. I sighed, pulled them out and…

An innocent mistake

NatureMay 12, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I grew up--while not in open fields, farmland nor forests--in a fairly nature-based childhood nestled within the relatively safe confines of the suburbs. My childhood was predominantly in Columbia, Maryland, in the '70s, with its miles and miles of pathways, creeks aplenty and many thin slivers of woods abutted by housing developments and neighborhoods all…

The Popcorn Report

CultchaMay 12, 2023547Views 0Likes 0Comments

Anyone remember Faith Popcorn? My goodness, that woman and her BrainReserve team were sooooo spot on with sooooo many trend predictions. Near prescient! Small luxuries ($4 cups of coffee) -- one of her predictions back in the mid/late '90s, was considered ridiculous. No one was going to spend that kind of money on a cup of…

The princess ride

Burning Man, ExperiencesMay 11, 20232KViews 0Likes 0Comments

In one of my many adventures in the wonderful and wondrous Land of Burning Man, I found myself exhausted, far from "home" (camp) and deeply, desperately not wanting to have to walk all the way back to camp. For those of you who have been to Burning Man, you know: it's big, especially when so much…

A second date?

My books ... and bitsMay 10, 2023903Views 0Likes 0Comments

One of my Uber Chronicles stories. Next up, I’m headed to an upscale restaurant in an upscale part of northern Baltimore City. Here, the streets are all recently paved and marked with brand-spanking-new reflective paint including the prettiest and most clearly marked bike lanes mine eyes have ever seen. These fresh, maintained and…

Hey, Jude!

SynchronicitiesMay 9, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

There are moments in life that are just meant to be. Here's one of them. When I was 20, I moved to San Francisco ... without a lick of help--in any manner--from my parents, in a world without the internet; and in a general state of naiveté, youthful ignorance and excitement. I lasted about a year…