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One Driver, 35 Rides, Countless Stories

My books ... and bitsAugust 16, 20222KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Here's the intro to the third book in my Uber Chronicle's series, One Driver, 35 Rides, Countless Stories. In July 2016, a TechCrunch article stated that Uber had completed over 2 billion rides for passengers. Two billion! (2022 stats updated: 1.44 billion rides are completed through Uber every quarter. Times, they are a-changin’.) In this book,…

Pressure

Little BitsAugust 13, 20222KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I know I'm not the only one: hours before leaving for a trip, for vacation, for whatever, I'm all caught up projects that are suddenly urgent. Late last night I was (re)organizing my notecards by category: general hello, thank you, birthday, wedding, sympathy, new baby etc. Today I was dusting. (I hardly ever dust!) But you know:…

We can manage but ourselves

Things I PonderAugust 10, 20221KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Hmm. I've heard and seen this quote from Louis CK here and there -- "When someone says you hurt them, you don't get to decide you didn't" -- and I'm not sure I agree. I have a lifetime of feeling hurt, victimized, done-wrong, shafted and all sorts of "wrongs" aimed in my direction. I've had a fair…

On becoming a fan of psychedelics

Burning Man, ExperiencesAugust 8, 20222KViews 0Likes 0Comments

When I was in my late teens, I had my first--and last for a few decades--experiences with LSD and mushrooms. Some friends of mine and I did LSD one night at a hippie retreat of sorts in the early ‘80s. We danced in a group setting, laughed, saw pretty colors and, overall, had a lovely…

Is anything special any more?

MemoriesAugust 1, 20221KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I am aware, of course, of the VAST vastvastvastvast uptick in products available, the Made-in-China-fication of production and how products are much more accessible for purchase than they were in my childhood and young adult years. Quite aware. I mean, I’ve lived it: this change, this uptick, this vastvastvastvast increase. But a particular and recent Amazon listing…

Was it the Bisquick?

Things I PonderJuly 23, 20222KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I think it was the Bisquick. See, I am sorta on a mission to find a great sausage-ball recipe, and Bisquick (or its generic equivalent) seems to be a key ingredient in almost all of the recipes I found online. So, I got myself some Bisquick, and, yesterday, I made my first attempt at making Bisquick-based…

Listening

MemoriesJuly 19, 20222KViews 0Likes 0Comments

When I was a child in the early ‘70s, there were few-and-far-between resources aimed at kids and little media and content aimed at children. (We were Xers after all and at the bottom of society's ranked needs.) There were books, of course. Some from eras prior. Some published recently, but the vast numbers of books and…

Things I ponder at 2:22 a.m. on a Saturday night

Things I PonderJuly 9, 20221KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Things I'm doing at 2:22 a.m. on a Saturday night. Thank goodness I was home when I gave these pants their first test drive! I'd invited my mother and sister over for dinner, and given that we were going to eat outside and that the mosquitos come a-hoverin' and a-huntin' in the evening hours, I figured it…

Wired for stories

Stories big and smallJuly 5, 20222KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Been tuning in of late to Lisa Cron and her book, Story Genius, for which the full book title is Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere). She makes a compelling and clear case that human…

Splat

NatureJuly 3, 20222KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Just caught a mosquito, mid-air. This was not a capture-and-release exercise. Photo source.

Drink

ExperiencesJuly 1, 20221KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I had an interesting moment last night. I was deeeeeep in my sleep--as my Sleep Cycle app showed me later in the morning when I woke up and looked at it--when SUDDENLY in my mind's eye I saw in a room of darkness a single VERY bright light. The light provided was from an electrical source,…

When a blow becomes new strength

Things I PonderJune 24, 20221KViews 1Like 0Comments

Upon hearing the recent news about Roe v Wade, at first I was overcome by an anger so palpable it felt physical. But then I took a deep breath, dissipated the energy and felt into the deeper, larger hope of this country’s majority support for reproductive freedom and agency over one's body. Then, out of…