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Cold turkey

ExperiencesJanuary 3, 20101KViews 0Likes 0Comments

As much as I’m not a practitioner of new year’s resolutions, I can understand them. And, I’m betting, a ton of folk have added to their list of resolutions for 2010, “Quit Smoking.” I’d like to tell my story about how I quit smoking. I smoked since I was a teenager. Always was a chipper (learned that term from Malcolm Gladwell’s…

Carpe Photo Opp

ExperiencesDecember 14, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

It was a moment I couldn’t pass up. Traipsing through DC with a few hundred Santas, we’d just left the Lincoln Memorial and were en route to the White House when I saw it: THE photo opp of the day. Or century! See, as part of SantarchyDC, I’d done my best at interpretive Santa with a haute couture vintage…

I didn’t expect to be so taken

ExperiencesDecember 7, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I didn’t expect to be so taken. I didn’t expect to have such a deep response. I didn’t expect much of anything, really. See, I volunteered recently to help make yarn wigs for kids at — what was previously named — The Children’s Hospital. These particular kids who will get the yarn wigs are kids…

Dancing with Light

ExperiencesNovember 8, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Few words I have for this right now. Dancing with light via Lorne’s Electric Heliotrope Theater was one of the most … well, watch the video and imagine how exquisite the experience probably was. The video can be a bit slow to load. Electric Heliotrope Theater – Dance 2 – JessieX from MediaDog on Vimeo.

Why not Wednesday?

Things I PonderAugust 8, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I’m all for the USPS cutting a day of delivery service to reduce expenses. Personally, I think for $.44, having a piece of mail picked up from my home and delivered straight to the door of any address in the U.S. has got to be the best bargain on the planet. So, if the Postal…

I gazed at him lovingly every day

MemoriesJune 25, 20092KViews 0Likes 0Comments

When I was eight years old, I got my first-ever album. It was by The Jackson Five. Inside, there was a paper sleeve protecting the record. And on this sleeve were printed many fan items for purchase. The heart-shaped stickers with young Michael Jackson’s photo in the center I pined for, day in and day…

Localized pain

Things I PonderJune 23, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

News of the WMATA Red Line metro crash yesterday made me stop. I was headed out when I heard the first bit about the crash. I felt shaken, and I needed to talk with people. To sit in a neighborhood bar. To be in the company of people who were local and cared, people who…

They called me Martha

MemoriesJune 11, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Last night, I found myself at the Baltimore Gay Pride street party. It was after a long day indoors at Baltimore Barcamp and a nice after-party at Brewer’s Art. My long-time friend and I, dressed alike, as we often find ourselves in some mysterious sort of way, were headed out of Baltimore and back to the ‘burbs on a Saturday…

My lovely, quirky family

Stories big and smallMay 6, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Life. Timing. The rain. Whatever things combined tonight had me purchasing presents for my lovely, quirky family. I can blog about the gifts because none of my family members read my blog, so I don’t have to worry about spoilers. For my sister’s birthday next week: Organic poop. Actually, I’m just giving her cash toward a…

Vera, Lucille and Hazel are dead

CultchaMarch 13, 20092KViews 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, 20091KViews 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…