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When your path is clear

Stories big and smallMarch 11, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

If ever you think you're having a bad day, remember this young woman and how her life changed in one instant -- and over the course of a year and one day in the hospital afterward. How she went from being rather active and and certainly able to function at high capacity in life…

Pretty…and pissed!

My books ... and bitsMarch 10, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

One of my Uber Chronicles stories. ( Photo clearly isn't my passenger. Duh.) I drive a few minutes and am directed by GPS onto a quiet road with dozens of police cars parked alongside it. What? Oh, I’m near a police station or some sort of police headquarters office. The Uber app…

Are you in?

Tips for an Orderly LifeMarch 8, 2023926Views 0Likes 0Comments

If you're not yet on your local Buy Nothing Facebook Group, do consider joining. The posts' focus are one of three options: GIFT, ASK and GRATITUDE, and the people who say they're going to come get something usually do. And quickly. The BN groups are a great way of getting rid of all sorts of items --…

Their loss, my gain

Stories big and smallMarch 5, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Their loss, my gain. (Sorry, Ryan.) I made a bunch of food to bring to a birthday party this weekend, and I'd put some time and effort into doing so (marinated mushrooms with chopped walnuts, the same ingredients in a blended cream-cheese dip, and, well, Birthday Bacon). I wrote myself all sorts of notes of what to…

The new kid in town

NatureMarch 5, 2023928Views 0Likes 0Comments

There's a new kid in town. (Well, actually, she's retired and not a kid, but she is a new neighbor at the Columbia Gardeners Long Reach plots.) Nice, huh? She knows what she's doing. Clearly! She upgraded everything about her plot, including putting in a new fence all around it. Lucky me: I got…

Ring. Ring!

Little BitsMarch 2, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Does anyone even answer their phones anymore? (I hardly/rarely do unless the person is in my contacts list.) As well, I find myself, more and more, doing my self-appointed civic duty and marking calls that reek of spam, as just that: by blocking them. I figure if enough of us are doing so, the spam-catcher-tools will…

Not much of a loss

Little BitsFebruary 27, 2023927Views 0Likes 0Comments

Last night, in a dessert-searching mood in my kitchen, I made a keto-friendly pumpkin cheesecake thing-y, with crushed walnuts in the crust and a bunch more spread on the top. I left it out, covered with a screen, to cool in the night air, then had a serving of it an hour or so later. (It…

Death by mantis

NatureFebruary 25, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Why, yes, that is a photo of a praying mantis killing and eating a humming bird. Thank you, Internet! Carnivores gonna carnivore, right? Apparently, they rather like bird brains, burrowing through the soft-tissue eye sockets and directly into the brain; often leaving the body for scavengers after devouring the fatty bird brains. In general, it's a good position…

Human is, love is

Little BitsFebruary 24, 2023989Views 0Likes 0Comments

I like a little sci-fi. Ack, truth be told, I like a lot of sci-fi. I'll take sci-fi most any day over a rom-com or love story. But when I started watching an episode of Electric Dreams (each episode is its own contained story), called "Human Is," I was surprised and put into a state…

An ir/rational fear

NatureFebruary 22, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I don't know when it happened. Maybe I was in elementary school. Probably. I saw some video, some film, some something or other at school in which a moray eel, its size and strength hidden in a den, darted out and surprise-attacked a diver and then held on. At least that's my memory of what I…

Revenge

MemoriesFebruary 9, 20231KViews 1Like 0Comments

Not sure how or why this memory from back in the day popped up, but this morning it did. Here goes. my first apartment When I was 27 years old I had just started my first business--cleverly named, at least to me, Do The Write Thing. Spike Lee's same-named-differently-spelled movie had been released a few years…

Duck, duck

ExperiencesFebruary 8, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

When I was a kid--I don't know exactly when; maybe when I was 10 or 11 years old--my mother made duck. A whole roasted duck. It was, by far, one of the most miserable what's-for-dinner? memories in my childhood life. It may have been for my mother, as well, and if my younger siblings remember that…