Hah! Although all our birthdays marking a another year happen but once, my mother, mentioned to me this one had a wee little zing in it.
She had been watching a special on Martin…
Be my birthday tomorrow, the 28th, it is, it is.
Gonna start off with watching the lunar eclipse outside tonight, in some place with a reasonably clear horizon not filled with trees.
The eclipse starts…
Up until August 2025, I had never knee-boarded behind a motor boat. I didn't grow up in a water-, boat- or ocean-focused family, despite living rather close to a whole, whole lot of…
Other than my pool-chlorine saturated youth, wherein the Thunder Hill neighborhood pool served as playground, babysitter and launchpad for endless underwater adventures as I cosplayed--best I could with my superball serving as a…
An impromptu day trip to Rehoboth Beach yielded good news and bad news.
The bad news first: not a soul was in the water more than to their ankles. Jelly fish. I thought, foolishly,…
If you're in the Maryland-ish area and have experienced a number of Big Summer Maryland Rains in the last couple-few weeks, you're probably also seeing a lot of mushrooms pop all over the…
When I attended my first The Love Burn (and likely last, as it was not my favorite burn -- at all) I wasn't camping with The Sky Bar, but KJ Donoghue -- the…
While there are many hundreds of camps offering a near-endless variety of experiences, gifts, fun, food, art and adventure at Burning Man, there are certain camps that are legendary. The Costco Soulmate Trading…
Friday's snowfall had me over at my mother's to shovel her driveway, but she'd already gotten to most of it, so I shoveled the deck ... but I still wanted to be outside…
In 2013, I took the advice of someone I'd met on Facebook and had known but a few weeks (Charlie), and I went out to Burning Man a week early for what is…
I fell for a scam yesterday.
I realized I'd done so minutes after it happened, contacted PayPal right away, and they refunded my money.
The scam was promoted in an ad on Facebook. It's a…
In 2013, I went to Black Rock City, home of Burning Man, a week early to help build the French Quarter Village, of which More Carrot, the camp for which I was a…