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Pretty. Boring.

CultchaDecember 18, 20232KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I saw Wonka earlier today. Eh. Almost fell asleep mid-point. It's a pretty film. Visual. Colorful. Fun. And I found it rather boring. I had a nice holiday-gathering type of afternoon--a movie and dinner with some friends. Overall, a lovely afternoon, but I'm comfortable saying you can miss Wonka and not miss…

As it is

Things I PonderDecember 16, 202382Views 0Likes 0Comments

There are weeks when barely a whisper of motivation to write comes my way. And there are hours, days and times when the floodgates are open, and I can do naught but write.

Early Santa trauma

MemoriesDecember 16, 2023188Views 0Likes 0Comments

I don't have--to my current knowledge--many memories of my six-and-under life (and that's fairly normal, I believe, as the brains of children six and under are in somewhat of a pre-memory, hypnagogic state of learn-learn-learn and not so much remember-remember-remember), but I do have a memory from when I was maybe five, maybe six. It…

What would you rather?

Things I PonderDecember 15, 202391Views 0Likes 0Comments

In a world clamoring for likes and clicks, opens and conversions, how does one measure opening one person's mind -- even if just a smidge -- with words we write, stories we share and new perspectives provided? I'll take the latter: the unseen and unknowable ripple over the stats. At least when it comes to my own…

Slinging slop (CJ #1)

ExperiencesDecember 15, 2023119Views 0Likes 0Comments

College job #1 Last night, a wee bit high and journaling, I started thinking about jobs I held in college and my coming-of-age years. I started listing them best I could remember. I was surprised by how many jobs I'd had. There were also gaps in my chronology and spots where I wrote "probably some…

Thank ’em!

Little BitsDecember 14, 2023161Views 0Likes 0Comments

I like to make balms and salves. Really good ones with really fabulous ingredients. I make them for myself, for friends and -- come the winter holiday season -- for many of the helpers, seen and unseen, in my life. In recent years, come early December, I put out a box full of various balms in…

Are you a friend of Tonga?

Other WritingDecember 14, 2023146Views 0Likes 0Comments

Here's a story I wrote for The Laurel Independent newspaper printed each month and distributed locally. It's about Friends of Tonga and the good work they're doing to support educational opportunities, water-scarcity issues and community resiliency. They've got a wonderful "Read Aloud" program where people such as yourself can (in about an hour or less) read a…

I can’t wear yellow

Tips for an Orderly LifeDecember 14, 2023189Views 0Likes 0Comments

Many people say such things as "I can't wear yellow." And that just ain't true. You need to know which yellow you "get" in your seasonal color palette. For example, I'm a soft, smoky, rosy, cool "summer," and I get one yellow: primrose. Cool winters, who shine in the clear, bright, vivid and icy colors, get one…

Making beds (CJ #3)

ExperiencesDecember 14, 2023118Views 0Likes 0Comments

College Job #3 My 18-year-old self naively assumed once I left my parents' home for college, I was out--gone, coming back just for holidays and special events. And as my freshman spring semester came to a close, and others in my dorm were packing up to head home for summer break, I realized I needed…

Pouring drafts (CJ #2)

ExperiencesDecember 14, 202391Views 0Likes 0Comments

College job #2 My second job in college was also a work-study job in the same dining hall, except it was at night when the dining hall was transformed into a bar. Or maybe there was a bar and meeting on the side of the dining hall. I don't recall. In any case, it was…

Revival

CultchaDecember 13, 2023104Views 0Likes 0Comments

Hmm. Interesting. Vivo Barefoot is refurbishing worn and returned shoes and reselling them. Interesting. I do love the brand they created for this effort-RE-Vivo. I mean, is that brilliant, or what? On an eco/ethical/marketing level, it's quite the concept and practice. Noteworthy, even. Alas, the pricing is more just like waiting for an eventual sale. But the concept is…

A dollar a pound

Memories, Things I PonderDecember 13, 2023139Views 0Likes 0Comments

In another era and another time, long before sites such as ebay, Poshmark and even Facebook Marketplace allowed people to resell items online and find buyers far and wide with relative ease, thrift stores and used-clothing stores were different. Really different. In that other era and in that other time, the for-profit invasion--and in many ways,…