In my half-unconscious grab for my phone to check on various social media feeds this morning, my eyes lit on this AI-generated race-swap of various currently famous folk. (There are more images here…
Oh, Grogu!
How fortunate are we to live in an era of such wonderful entertainment, story-telling, creativity, fun and adventure. What brilliance in combining The Mandalorian with a baby Jedi such as Grogu. The…
I made, earlier this afternoon, some lilac simple syrup. Seemed a lovely idea. Lilacs are in season. Simple syrups are insanely quick and easy to make. And floral hints in drinks, punches and…
I just re-acquired that college standard, Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style." In reading the latest version with a new foreword, I have discovered something wonderful: E.B. White (of the Strunk &…
In the manner of things inter-webby, I found myself staring at this image. Curiosity on full alert!
Is this real? Can it be real? It's so realistic, it has to be real. It can't…
I'm nearing 59 now, but when I was in my 20s, for some reason, I would think often on "adaptive clothing." I didn't have a name for what that type of clothing was…
I was scanning the WaPo headlines yesterday, as I do most days, when this headline grabbed my attention: "Opinion: Why reports of period weirdness after covid shots were ignored."
Super-quick article summary: a woman…
One of my Uber Chronicles stories.
My passenger is white, 16, female. She smells like soap, but not girly soap. Soap. She’s heading to school, though it’s after 10:30 a.m.
She…
An article I wrote for the Laurel Independent, published online here and here.
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By Jessie Newburn
“Like father, like son,” some say. Though in the case of the McAuliffe’s four-generational lineage of…
My lunch plans in DC today got rescheduled after I was already in the city, so I decided to make the best of things and stop by the national mall.
Oy. Warm day. Spring.…
Life is good when such a photo opp presents itself. Love Patron.
This little photo is like my family: Dad, mom, me, middle-kid sister and younger brother. Except, not really. I mean, if there…
Lighters and pens are the kind of things that are easy to hand to another person and never see again: the recipient (and new "owner") having no sense they walked off with your…