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…
Columbia, Maryland -- the non-city-place-area-mega-HOA that gets ranked in the top tiers on so, so many national lists -- has now made top ranking in yet another list: one of the worst places…
I wrote, the other night, a haiku expressing both my hate of mosquitos and my joy in the splattering of their bodies, blood-filled or not. I then posted my haiku on Facebook, which…
Thanks for all the birthday wishes the other day, especially over on Facebook!
I had a most lovely handful of birthday-days ... a sweet gathering and meal with my family, a day-trip to Rehoboth…
I am the maker of many-things-dehydrated. I am the maker of cowboy candy, which I find incredibly delicious and zingy. I am the maker of soaked walnuts and other soaked nuts, though there…