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NatureFebruary 8, 2023918Views 0Likes 0Comments

I know better than to be fooled by the FEELING of spring in the air. I live in Maryland--have most of my life--and I know even a mild winter such as how this one has felt can still produce some significant snowfall in the final six weeks of its season before the Vernal Equinox marks the…

Grateful

UncategorizedFebruary 5, 2023639Views 0Likes 0Comments

Every single time I push the start button on my dishwasher, washing machine or dryer, I feel immense gratitude for the "common luxuries" they provide. So grateful.

But how?

SynchronicitiesFebruary 3, 2023990Views 0Likes 0Comments

When I was eight or nine years old, one of my teachers told our class a story that has stayed with me all these decades since. Here is what my mind remembers. There were two sisters--identical twins--who'd been put up for adoption as infants. They were adopted out individually and neither knew of each other's existence.…

Searching

Little BitsJanuary 28, 2023636Views 0Likes 0Comments

I slept fitfully, woke up with inflamed and puffy eyes, felt sore all over, felt digestively uneasy and upon seeing my super-puffy face in the mirror said, aloud, "What? What did I eat yesterday to cause this?" I scanned my memory looking for something that might be the cause: avocado and egg? no; a…

Ever curious

Stories big and smallJanuary 20, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Both of my parents are life-long learners. Well, my dad is a "was" because he passed/died/went on to whatever next step his Soul and Consciousness needed, and my mom is an "is" because she is very much still alive and very much, still, a life-long learner. There have been times when I have judged them (and…

Overcoming the fear, one post at a time

MemoriesJanuary 19, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

In the early (to me) days of blogging, back in 2006, I found myself one day crying, petrified, completely in fear. I was about to press "publish" on a blog post. See, I'd gone from writing a few blog posts here and there -- posts to be read by "I don't know who" "I don't know…

I could drink in his voice all night long

My books ... and bitsJanuary 18, 20231KViews 1Like 0Comments

One of my Uber Chronicles stories. Mall and retail pickups are often confusing to us Uber drivers because many times all we see is the address of the shopping center. The whole, entire massive shopping center. We don’t always see the store name where someone is waiting for a pickup. So when my…

FAFO-ing about

Burning Man, SynchronicitiesJanuary 17, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

For some years now, I've been adding various stickers to items such as laptops, water bottles and lighters. The stickers help identify common items commonly owned by common (and other) people, as mine. For example, you and I may have the same color and style Hydro Flask, but if mine is covered with stickers specific…

Empaths, empathy and a world of difference

Things I PonderJanuary 16, 2023880Views 0Likes 0Comments

I've never much liked the term. Despised it actually, for some time. EMPATH. To me, the label always sounded like a cover excuse for "I can't deal with the world!" When, in truth, who among us can or does deal with the world with much grace and honesty? Maybe that comes later in life, when we've learned…

ChapGPT and the mighty mitochondria

ExperiencesJanuary 15, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I've been -- as have many -- poking around on ChatGPT. In the last 24 hours, three people in three completely different circumstances enthusiastically encouraged me to check it out, plus mentions of the tool having been popping up all over the internet in the last month or so. So off to Open.ai to create…

The helpful hyphen

Little BitsJanuary 15, 2023554Views 0Likes 0Comments

You know, there's something to be said for punctuation. It can be many things: a tool, a toy, a clarifier. It's mighty powerful, this punctuation stuff. Just LOOK at how helpful the hyphen is here in the opening scene of The Witcher: Blood Origin when Jaskier is in disbelief (and fear, Jaskier-style) upon hearing Seanchaí's…

He’s cooler than the other kids

My books ... and bitsJanuary 10, 20231KViews 1Like 0Comments

One of my Uber Chronicles stories. Beep! I pick up a young kid who is leaving a friend’s house after being there in the afternoon and into the early evening. He sits right next to me in the passenger seat. He’s the first and, so far, the only individual rider who has sat…