If there is a "holiday" toward which I feel zero affiliation, inclination, interest or curiosity, it would be today's.
Nothing personal for those of you who feel, and celebrate, otherwise. It simply isn't, has…
If ever you think you're having a bad day, remember this young woman and how her life changed in one instant -- and over the course of a year and one day in…
One of my Uber Chronicles stories. ( Photo clearly isn't my passenger. Duh.)
I drive a few minutes and am directed by GPS onto a quiet road with dozens of…
If you're not yet on your local Buy Nothing Facebook Group, do consider joining.
The posts' focus are one of three options: GIFT, ASK and GRATITUDE, and the people who say they're going to…
Their loss, my gain. (Sorry, Ryan.)
I made a bunch of food to bring to a birthday party this weekend, and I'd put some time and effort into doing so (marinated mushrooms with chopped…
There's a new kid in town. (Well, actually, she's retired and not a kid, but she is a new neighbor at the Columbia Gardeners Long Reach plots.) Nice, huh? She knows what…
Does anyone even answer their phones anymore? (I hardly/rarely do unless the person is in my contacts list.)
As well, I find myself, more and more, doing my self-appointed civic duty and marking calls…
Last night, in a dessert-searching mood in my kitchen, I made a keto-friendly pumpkin cheesecake thing-y, with crushed walnuts in the crust and a bunch more spread on the top.
I left it out,…
Why, yes, that is a photo of a praying mantis killing and eating a humming bird. Thank you, Internet!
Carnivores gonna carnivore, right?
Apparently, they rather like bird brains, burrowing through the soft-tissue eye sockets…
I like a little sci-fi.
Ack, truth be told, I like a lot of sci-fi. I'll take sci-fi most any day over a rom-com or love story. But when I started watching an…
I don't know when it happened. Maybe I was in elementary school. Probably.
I saw some video, some film, some something or other at school in which a moray eel, its size and strength…
Not sure how or why this memory from back in the day popped up, but this morning it did. Here goes.
my first apartment
When I was 27 years old I had just started…