This year's make-it-happen pumpkin, complements of my mom's (Eileen's) amazing creativity and cleverness.
One over-large zucchini from the garden.
Ears and nose tip, by way of a large jalapeño pepper from the garden.
Eyes, dried cloves.
Tongue,…
I was listening this afternoon--for the umpteenth time--to Neil Howe's tome on generational cycles and our current era, The Fourth Turning is Here, as he was discussing the cyclical and repeating nature of…
As Google turns 25 this week, let us pause to consider how VASTLY different our lives are from this site/tool/service/company, that is if you're old enough to know The Time Before.
And let us…
Back when I was 20 years old and freshly landed in San Francisco after a life of idyllic suburban living and a whirlwind cross-country--and back--trip with two rather hippy-oriented young women, I found…
For those who've been to Burning Man (the big one) and regionals locally, there is this thing often called "playa magic." While I don't know of any official description, I'd offer it's in…
Life goes up and life goes down. Events go here and events go there. Emotions and experiences and feelings of hope and belief, or despair and desperation, go up and down and here…
There are moments in life when you discover things about yourself.
And others.
Back in the day, I was the theme camp organizer for a lovely group of people at Burning Man (More Carrot, or…
Just finished my third listen of Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning is Here. OMG, OMG, OMG. The sense this man makes.
Here's a bit from the tail end of his book, in which he…
Said it before and I'll say it again:
Expect more strikes and union demands as #Millennials and their team-we-us energy travels with them as they age. (They're 41 at the top end this year, 18…
Don't you just love a good citizen patrol? Especially when one involves urban-dwelling dogs, (the Ratscallions) and their owners as they take their dogs rat hunting in particularly invested areas in NW DC,…
The #GenX generation, by its archetypal nature and location in history, is an under-protected, under-acknowledged and under-appreciated generation. And that's okay. Gen Xers are a survivalist generation more focused on, well, survival, the…
I started hearing about/reading about shrubs a couple-few years ago. These are a pre-canning, pre-refrigeration way of "putting up" excess fruits (and some vegetables) from the farm or garden, mostly by way of…