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Vera, Lucille and Hazel are dead

CultchaMarch 13, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Yep. These three gals — all in the 75-85-year-old range died recently, according to my local paper, The Columbia Flier. Why did this strike me as curious? Not their ages, of course. Their names and their generation. These gals are all of The Silent Generation, the Artist archetype from the last generational cycle, which is…

National Frozen Foods Day

MemoriesMarch 6, 2009983Views 0Likes 0Comments

Today is National Frozen Foods Day. I learned this when planning tonight’s BlogTale party with @wendyscherer. We were looking to see if there was anything special to tie into tonight’s party, and Wendy unearthed that it was National Frozen Foods Day. So, in celebration, we’re asking those local bloggers and twitterers who feel so inclined to write/blog/tweet…

Adaptive intelligence

NatureFebruary 12, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I’m remembering Mo this morning. Mo, and an experience that opened my mind and had me in awe of intelligence, in its many manifestations. See, Mo was a cat of mine. He joined Larry (my gargantuan, very male, orange tabby) and I as a youngin’, and we both loved him in our own ways. Mo…

Bitter, strong, intense — he’s my man

Tips for an Orderly LifeFebruary 6, 2009805Views 0Likes 0Comments

Yep. He’s my man. Dr. Schulze, that is. And the herbal tonics he makes and sells are outta this world: bitter, strong, intense … and, in my experience, effective. Earlier this week, I started having the uh-oh symptoms of a flu. I knew the flu was raging in Virginia, one of the heaviest hit states. And,…

Am I really popular or … ?

NatureJuly 22, 2008753Views 0Likes 0Comments

Am I really popular, or is there something else afoot? See, I am just boggled. I have received five party invitations for parties occurring on August 2nd. No party invitations for the 3rd, or even the following Saturday on the 9th. But five on the second. Curiosity piqued, I gave it some thought. My suspicion: August…

Two left thumbs

Things I PonderMay 23, 2008878Views 0Likes 0Comments

I just came in from doing one of my favorite household chores: hanging freshly laundered clothes on the outside line to dry. I love being outside, in the sun, with a gentle breeze in the background. One thing I like to do when hanging clothes out is to switch which hand I use for tasks…

Single focus

ExperiencesMay 11, 20081KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Last night I was a man. Well, at least for about 30-40 minutes. See, I showed up at the weekly contra dance at Lovely Lane Church, and there were a ton of women there, especially younger women. Plus, the Baltimore Open Band (a drop-in band) was playing, so a lot of the regular guy dancers were on…

Kiwi

Little BitsMay 10, 20081KViews 0Likes 0Comments

This vid makes me teary in a happy, heart-wrenching kind of way. You gotta watch it to the end to get the full story … and the full impact. It’s 3:09 minutes in length.

Introducing Miss Lori Powell

MemoriesJanuary 16, 2008913Views 0Likes 0Comments

Let me introduce you, online, here, to Miss Lori Powell. I met Lori 10-12-14? years ago when Maryland was getting a second area code (that’s 410, for those of you new to these parts). See, at that time I was sending out 3,000+ faxes each week of the Business Monthly‘s weekly fax report. (I don’t even…

The big C

CultchaNovember 17, 20071KViews 0Likes 0Comments

The Economist, in an article called “The Big C,” had some information I’d like to share here. If you’re a regular reader of Hometown Columbia, you may have gleaned by now, that the topic of health and personal choices occupies my mind now and again. OK, so there’s a new personalized health check-up system called…

GenX and Boomers : Burning Man and Woodstock

Burning Man, Things I PonderOctober 13, 2007934Views 0Likes 0Comments

I’ve just come from a mild version of Burning Man, the east coast event called Playa del Fuego. It was my first such event, and I generally find Burners my kind of people. It was pretty easy for me to conclude that Burning Man is mostly organized and attended by Gen Xers — duh — though it was…

Dancing blind … and backwards

ExperiencesAugust 9, 2007892Views 0Likes 0Comments

Closing my eyes opens up new worlds I like to do social dancing (where one person leads the dance and the other person follows), and I like to do it, when possible, with my eyes closed. Today, I went to a new-favorite dance of mine: the fais do-do (I think that’s what they call it), a 4-hour…