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The mother of invention

Tips for an Orderly LifeJanuary 3, 2024135Views 0Likes 0Comments

Now that the winter holidays season has mostly passed, I can speak. I'm not saying when or where this happened, but I will say that I was able to offload a what-am-I-gonna-do-with-this? bottle of spiked eggnog that was brought to a small holiday party at my place, (but not taken home by the bringer of said…

Seed-lending library love

Little BitsJanuary 2, 2024114Views 0Likes 0Comments

For the past few months, anytime anyone in our (small, but mighty) family spoke with my sister Rebecca, we got an earful about the Global Seed Library Census project she was spearheading. Well, it's finally done and published! Long a seed-saver herself, my sister founded Richmond Grows Seed-lending Library in the Bay Area in 2010. That…

Xena! … and friend

CultchaJanuary 2, 2024113Views 0Likes 0Comments

I came home this evening from running some errands and wanted to watch a little TV while eating dinner before I began a project on my radar this evening. I've heard Neil Howe (the generations expert at whose feet I bow) mention Xena: Warrior Princess quite a few times in talking about the Gen X archetype…

From this broken hill

CultchaDecember 31, 2023162Views 0Likes 0Comments

Leonard Cohen is one of my favorite singers of all time. I've danced to his music, cried to his music and felt connected to the full spectrum of humanity listening to his music. As I imagine it does with others, his Hallelujah song reaches into the center of my being, raising me up to the…

For hire, I am

Other WritingDecember 29, 2023144Views 0Likes 0Comments

I love writing. You'd think I'd like reading more, and I do love books. Don't get me wrong: Books have been a part of my life from the get-go when, somehow, my self-proclaimed, not-much-of-a-reader mom had the instinct and intuition to get reading and books into my life and that of my siblings, early on. (She…

Born, not made

Little BitsDecember 29, 2023129Views 0Likes 0Comments

There's a movie out now. A psychological drama, of sorts. Not gonna say which, but folks be talkin' about it a bit online and such as it is one that makes you think. For those who've seen it, the story provides a great reminder that psychopaths are real. They are not "made" or formed by ill-luck…

Graphological curiosities

Tips for an Orderly LifeDecember 28, 2023164Views 0Likes 0Comments

When I was a young girl, perhaps around my budding teen years, a particular advertisement on TV mesmerized me: it was an ad for handwriting analysis. Would-be customers needed to write out a paragraph or so of text, sign it and mail this paper to the posted address. Then, some weeks later, an analysis of…

Get yourself one

Tips for an Orderly LifeDecember 27, 202394Views 0Likes 0Comments

Beloved, wonderful people, I have said this before, and I believe I will likely say this many times going forward: CASTLEFLEXX. Get yourself a CastleFlexx. Use the CastleFlexx. Explore what's possible with the CastleFlexx. Get your friends and family to get a CastleFlexx. Spread the word far and wide: CastleFlexx. There is nothing, nothing, nothing out there like the CastleFlexx. Get the annual…

Ever Better and me

Little BitsDecember 27, 2023129Views 0Likes 0Comments

Clearing out old emails and notes long piled up and I found this link to a podcast interview I did a few years ago with the Ever Better folks. Says the site: '"Jessie Newburn is a Gen Xer who has embraced the gig economy! Sometimes it seems like all eyes are on millennials and baby boomers,…

O Come, All Ye Faithful

Memories, SynchronicitiesDecember 23, 2023163Views 0Likes 0Comments

Some decades ago in my life (likely in the mid 1990s-ish), I received an invitation to a somewhat fancy event down in Northeast D.C. for some purpose and cause about which I have no specific memory. The person who invited me to this somewhat fancy event, Susan Gore, was deeply involved in academia and Women's…

Culture change is cyclical and teen sexual activity is, too

CultchaDecember 22, 2023258Views 0Likes 0Comments

When you understand generations as ARCHETYPES, When you know that culture change--and all its attendant data points--are cyclical, and When you can see the underlying patterns and tides of change through such a lens, ---> Then articles such as this one about the decline of teen sexual activity, from the National…

The Fare

CultchaDecember 19, 2023139Views 0Likes 0Comments

Wow! I ain't givin' no spoilers on The Fare (and I'd recommend you watch the movie first without knowing what's going on), but WOW! What a story! What a love story! If you know a bit of Greek mythology, do tune in to many a subtle clue. :) And for as mundane and blah as…