The minutes are ticking by. Less than an hour until the proverbial clock strikes midnight and August 28th becomes August 29th.
Today, while the minutes tick on toward 12 midnight, is my birthday. I've had visions-thoughts-ideas in my head. for at least the last week or two, that I would write something Big, something Important, perhaps…
Holy smokes! I made it to 60, but almost not 60 and one day!
I made a dry rub for a piece of pork shoulder butt I'm cooking. The rub called for cayenne, which I didn't have ... literally; what I did have was another dried pepper and a hot one!
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You know how you sometimes find something -- a meme, a joke, a video ... something -- that makes you laugh. And then it makes you laugh even harder and more when you watch again and again
That's how I feel about this video. And this compilation video of the same three cats--and the…
My mind wonders:
If someone can get DIScombobulated...
Can they then get REcombobulated?
I kinda feel like I'm doing that as I unpack from yet another absolutely fabulous 10-day trip -- this time to the beach (Ocean City, Maryland ... which is a really quite a lovely beach and yet another wonderful asset in Maryland living,) with near-perfect…
It rains during Burning Man. Not much. Not often, but it does.
It rained the first evening on the first night of the first year I attended Burning Man. The rain came around 5:30 p.m., the temperature plummeted, I put on every single piece of remotely warm clothing I had packed -- my Uggs boots, my…
I don't know where you stand on the subject of "your guides," or angels, or helpers or, let's just go big, and say God Him/Her/Itself, but I've had an experience or two (or a bazillion) where some form of protection and support sure seemed to play a hand in my experience.
I'll tell you such a…
Here is the link to the Laurel Independent printed feature story I wrote about Melinda Lee, principal of Laurel Elementary School. The story is page 8. And here is the full and longer story I wrote, below.
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Reaching for the skies … and bringing everyone along with her
Melinda Lee Retires after 22 Years as…
I'm sitting here this morning, going what? what? what did I eat yesterday that has my face so puffy this morning and my body feeling a bit inflamed?
I wracked my brain (well, for about 47 seconds). Couldn't think of anything. Also couldn't remember what I ate except that bowl of steaming chipped beef in nama…
We met at a party. It was my party .. well, one I was co-hosting with my friend CJ at his beautiful, waterfront property in Annapolis. It was an odd-interesting-weird party in that about half the attendees were burners and people comfortably attired in skintight, purple lamé pants, or a furry vest, or some wild…
There is a tiny lone ant, way up high on my ceiling right now. Doing its thing. Looking. Sensing. Exploring. It's not going to find anything up there. Nor do I need to do anything about its lot, plight, mission or drive in life. It just is. And all is well.
I love the intense summer storms of Maryland.
When I was a kid, we had a front-porch swing. I could sit outside -- and often did -- as the storm's intensity surged, the thunder rumbled and roared, the lightning spiked across the sky, and the rains came.
To this day, when the summer storms come, I often…
If anyone, ever, were to create a job where someone had to wear a specific piece of clothing for 60 seconds -- or maybe 10 --and inform the clothing manufacturer that the tag was itchy AF and annoying and feel-able and there and present and impossible to ignore, then I'm just saying I could do…