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Pretty. Boring.

I saw Wonka earlier today. Eh. Almost fell asleep mid-point.    It's a pretty film. Visual. Colorful. Fun. And I found it rather boring.   I had a nice holiday-gathering type of…

As it is

There are weeks when barely a whisper of motivation to write comes my way. And there are hours, days and times when the floodgates are open, and I can do naught but write.

Early Santa trauma

I don't have--to my current knowledge--many memories of my six-and-under life (and that's fairly normal, I believe, as the brains of children six and under are in somewhat of a pre-memory, hypnagogic state…

Slinging slop (CJ #1)

College job #1 Last night, a wee bit high and journaling, I started thinking about jobs I held in college and my coming-of-age years. I started listing them best I could remember. I…

Thank ’em!

I like to make balms and salves. Really good ones with really fabulous ingredients. I make them for myself, for friends and -- come the winter holiday season -- for many of the…

Are you a friend of Tonga?

Here's a story I wrote for The Laurel Independent newspaper printed each month and distributed locally. It's about Friends of Tonga and the good work they're doing to support educational opportunities, water-scarcity issues and…

I can’t wear yellow

Many people say such things as "I can't wear yellow." And that just ain't true. You need to know which yellow you "get" in your seasonal color palette. For example, I'm a soft, smoky, rosy,…

Making beds (CJ #3)

College Job #3 My 18-year-old self naively assumed once I left my parents' home for college, I was out--gone, coming back just for holidays and special events. And as my freshman spring semester…

Revival

Hmm. Interesting. Vivo Barefoot is refurbishing worn and returned shoes and reselling them. Interesting. I do love the brand they created for this effort-RE-Vivo. I mean, is that brilliant, or what? On an eco/ethical/marketing level, it's…

A dollar a pound

In another era and another time, long before sites such as ebay, Poshmark and even Facebook Marketplace allowed people to resell items online and find buyers far and wide with relative ease, thrift…