I've been chatting the last day or so with someone curious about (but a little wary) of attending Frostburn, a regional burn in West Virginia and held in mid-February. Along the way, this…
I don't recall exactly why I decided to take a typing class in high school. Maybe it was because it wouldn't add to my academic-class load: a load which was rather high. Maybe…
Ah, so much to say on this subject.
The short version: My dad once owned this camp, Buffalo Gap Retreat. He was not the most capable person to run such a business, and it…
Yep, I dressed like this in 1982… In college, no less, while living in a dorm.
I wore my knickers a LOT! I don't think people had nearly as many clothing items then as…
There are many miracles in life. Big ones and small ones, gargantuan ones and micro ones. Many of these miracles, in my experience, are matters of timing and synchronicity.
Yet whether large or small,…
When I was a wee one, maybe four or five, my mom had gone back to work as a nurse, and she needed to find a babysitter / kid watcher for me. A…
While I always figured myself to be the type of person who'd never-ever travel somewhere by bus, wearing an ID card around my neck, Life has a way of surprising you; and there…
This is, I believe, the place.
When I saw this video (below) on social media, I had an instant visceral reaction. Then I saw the location where the video was take -- Twister Falls…
Some decades ago in my life (likely in the mid 1990s-ish), I received an invitation to a somewhat fancy event down in Northeast D.C. for some purpose and cause about which I have…
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…
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…
When news of (now expelled) Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) and his web of lies first came to my attention, I knew right away he was one of Them--one of 'those people' who can't…