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My annual quest

Things I PonderDecember 25, 2024862Views 0Likes 0Comments

It has begun: the annual search for a paper calendar-planner which, -- I think I'll use, -- I envision as integral to some future life organization, -- I hope will somehow make / help me be "on top of things." Purchased each year. Rarely used. Weeks, months ... entire seasons, neglected, blank. I know the digital versions work not (for me), save…

Crossing paths

SynchronicitiesDecember 22, 2024539Views 0Likes 0Comments

There's a person -- a guy, my age-ish, married with kids, nice-looking, smart, dry humor -- whom I run into a lot. We have an "Oh, hey, nice to see you," micro-conversation relationship where we might talk for 5 or 10 minutes when we cross paths, share some interesting info (or not) and that's it. Except I…

Yet another reason to love living in Maryland

Nature, UncategorizedDecember 19, 2024822Views 0Likes 0Comments

Yet another reason to love living in Maryland! Maryland is a cult, not a state. (That's the name of a FB group, and I rather like it.) Kudos to the creator (lower case C).

Yet another list!

Little BitsDecember 19, 2024675Views 0Likes 0Comments

Columbia, Maryland -- the non-city-place-area-mega-HOA that gets ranked in the top tiers on so, so many national lists -- has now made top ranking in yet another list: one of the worst places to DATE! Right behind Grand Prarie, Texas, and Warwick, Rhode Island.

Beware, the easy solution

UncategorizedDecember 10, 2024543Views 0Likes 0Comments

All y'alls relying on AI for writing support and spellcheck functions, tread carefully. For the past several years I've been perplexed by the odd spellcheck and grammar suggestions Google Docs and other editing tools have put forth for me to accept and include in various writing I've done. Again and again, I've thought, "No, that's not…

Shocked! (jk)

Things I PonderDecember 5, 2024747Views 0Likes 0Comments

If y'all want any proof Elon, The Mighty & Wonderful, is using Twitter for his own machinations, here are the account names of my current "For You" feed (the default on twitterx), exactly as they are: Elon Mush - name typo, but I'm leaving it JD Vance Bryce Lipscomb - A MaHa-er (make…

Look!

UncategorizedNovember 20, 2024585Views 0Likes 0Comments

Just saw "Super/Man" with my mom at the East Branch Library / Senior Center. (Free movie nights on Thursdays.) Amazing story, lovely tribute, what a hero, what a destiny.

Old as the hills

NatureNovember 1, 2024604Views 0Likes 0Comments

I had heard some time ago that old mountains (and in mountain years, that's a lot of years, centuries, millennia and aeons) are lower in elevation, eroded and rounded while new mountains tend to be taller with sharp and jagged peaks. I live along the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and within the 480-million-ish year-old Appalachian…

A picture emerges

SynchronicitiesOctober 15, 2024942Views 0Likes 0Comments

If there is one thing that has continued to be true about my life, it's how much my life keeps surprising and delighting me. Years ago when my father bought Buffalo Gap Retreat center, it wasn't the happiest of moments in our family (the purchase was, as it is called, "the straw that broke the…

Doin’ our part

NatureOctober 9, 2024566Views 0Likes 0Comments

For those concerned and/or interested, you can count the Columbia Newburns in for having killed at least 50 adult spotted lantern flies -- a prolific breeder and invasive-as-heck bug -- in the last 72 hours. And we're only just beginning! As we have a grape vine, and spotted lantern flies in the nymph stage just love…

Salted water is the key to hydration

Tips for an Orderly LifeSeptember 30, 2024901Views 0Likes 0Comments

Folks, it ain't WATER that hydrates you internally; it's water with lots of electrolytes in it that creates the conditions to open your cells for water/hydration to go in and for waste to come out. Think about it: Water IN you isn't IN you, fully, until your cells take it in, and they don't *just* take…

Every year

NatureSeptember 21, 2024583Views 0Likes 0Comments

I don't know where your domicile resides, nor the specifics of its elevation, whether you have western-facing exterior walls, or whatever other details are relevant to your home's location. BUT, over where I live ... The stinkbugs have begun their annual sojourn into homes, mine included.