For my fellow "Maryland is a cult, not a state" folks ...
If you've been thinking about going to Burning Man, prepare to walk a lot, bike a lot and, maybe, on occasion, hitch a ride on an art car going where its going, while…
Smug AF Karoline Leavitt is married to a man with several mil to his name (that public records show).
Yet she still owes $325,000 in debt for her failed 2022 Congressional campaign in New…
In the various and sundry rabbit holes down which I travel, I was poking around and learning about the colonial American economy and life then when I encountered an article about American ginseng…
Off to the ballet we were -- three of us. A Saturday matinee and a girls' afternoon afterward.
Heading out of my home, I had grabbed the purse that went best with my outfit,…
Ima WTF on FB.
My feed, as I'm sure yours is too, is filled with ads, posts from pages I don't follow and a whole lot of irrelevant whatnot.
So, I select the "Friends" feed…
More rabbit hole bits. (I'm organizing and cleaning out some articles and notes I've gathered.)
The colony of Rhode Island was founded between 1636 and 1642 by five separate and COMBATIVE groups, all of…
Truly, I was never into paper maps. Local, national, global -- didn't matter, not my thing.
Couldn't read 'em.
Couldn't follow 'em.
Couldn't understand 'em.
But these rendered versions? This dimensional stuff? Fascinates me endlessly!
I think it's…
I almost fell for it. I really almost did.
I love-love-love the OOFOS sandal/flip-flop thing-y. It / they have changed my world for the better. Profoundly. I went from owning one pair to owning…
In honor of my dad Jim Newburn (on his birthday and his endless curiosities at the edge of the Universe, I share this video with you. A rather…
Love this night-light map of the U.S. It shows, as I see it, the visual history of westward expansion, railroads, land grants, speculative towns, massive emigration and immigration, hope ... and, let us…
Oh, oh, oh!
The day I thought would never -- could never! -- come might be upon us.
Our beloved Vitamix, in service -- in regular, ongoing, handle-it-all service -- some 30 years, is fritzing…