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Turtles all the way down

ExperiencesJune 15, 20222KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The turtles are on the move. This little, muddy, and just-emerged snapper was almost stepped on by some neighbor ladies out for a walk this morning. I was outside on my sunken patio, hidden from view to anyone passing by. I was enjoying a pleasant cup of tea (green, Dragonwell: the only way to go…

Glamping ahead!

Burning Man, Little BitsJune 12, 20221KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Anyone else's living space look like this the week prior to glamping? #summerisle #burningman #regionals #fun

Too many options?

CultchaJune 1, 20221KViews 1Like 0Comments

Such a wacky world: finding the same products -- the exact same products -- sold online for wildly different prices; having to figure out if Amazon's jacked-pricing is a better deal than going to the manufacturer's site and paying shipping; navigating seemingly endless choices. I guess it's not "a bad problem to have." And as a…

And just like that …

ExperiencesMay 31, 20221KViews 1Like 0Comments

There’s a particular and vexing area of my life where I’ve had a contentious relationship with someone. We don’t engage often but when we did, I could feel intense anger and aggression surge into my bloodstream. My experiences with said person had often left me shaken and upset. Understandably. gas on a flame I’ve…

We be like that sometimes

Little BitsMay 30, 20222KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Stopped by my mom’s house to pick up the milk jug gallons I had mostly filled with water a few days prior and put in her freezer. My aim? To use a couple/few jugs of frozen water as cooler ice for a local Burning Man regional festival (PDF - Playa del Fuego) I’m attending this…

What do you do?

Things I PonderMay 25, 20221KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Many months ago, I was out in the small, cute, boutique- and retail-laden little town of Historic Ellicott City. I needed to (wanted to) get a new journal. As both this historic town and the nearby mall were about the same distance. I opted for the cute, charming and historic retail environment over the bland,…

It’s like this most years, is it not?

NatureMay 21, 20221KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Spring in Maryland: it's like this most years, is it not? this First, it's cool as we transition from winter into spring. It rains sometimes; it's sunny and near-perfect other times; the world transforms from the dark, gray and seemingly barren landscape of winter to a place bursting with blooming flowers, emerging green (everywhere!) and…

The pink backpack was the clue

ExperiencesMay 14, 20223KViews 2Likes 0Comments

It's 4:20. In the morning. And I'm just coming home from sitting with a crying, intoxicated woman in my car. A stranger, no less You could, of course, tell me it isn’t wise to have strangers in one’s car, especially not at 4:00 in the morning and especially not intoxicated ones, and you probably…

Remembering Dennis …

Stories big and smallMay 14, 20223KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Anniversaries can be strange things. Even years later, the anniversary of an event and the memories around it can still resonate strongly. A few days ago, I started thinking of Dennis Lane quite a bit. Wordbones as he named himself and many called him. Consciously, I wasn't aware I had been…

Always

NatureMay 13, 20221KViews 0Likes 0Comments

It does not matter whether the cherry blossoms and first wave of spring flowers come early in the season or late. It does not matter whether a particular spring is wet and cool or bright and lovely. (Well, spring in Maryland is always lovely, but it’s also spring and, therefore, the weather fluctuates and is…

Like clockwork

NatureMay 13, 20221KViews 0Likes 0Comments

No matter whether the cherry blossoms and first-wave spring flowers come early or late, whether spring is a wet and cool or warm and lovely (well, spring is always lovely in Maryland), or whatever other factors are at hand, always, always, always the poppies in my mom's garden bloom on my sister's birthday, May 13th. Here's…

No hope to reach home

NatureMay 11, 20222KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Well, this certainly wasn't anything I was expecting to see upon coming home this afternoon. bear witness to the journey Poor little thing must have traversed earlier today rather hot asphalt, then it had to crawl-fall-bang down nine stairs to the bottom level of the condo ... then continue, continue on to the lowest point…