If there is a "holiday" toward which I feel zero affiliation, inclination, interest or curiosity, it would be today's.
Nothing personal for those of you who feel, and celebrate, otherwise. It simply isn't, has…
Not sure how or why this memory from back in the day popped up, but this morning it did. Here goes.
my first apartment
When I was 27 years old I had just started…
In the early (to me) days of blogging, back in 2006, I found myself one day crying, petrified, completely in fear. I was about to press "publish" on a blog post.
See, I'd gone…
I have a strong memory of the bong I had in high school. It was about 16-18 inches high, cobalt blue, plastic, and it stunk horribly--and interminably--from my attempts to clean it with…
I've read a lot of books. Mostly as a child, teen, college student and--erg, um, well, then it kinda dropped off for a bit until I got scolded by a low-schooled-yet-erudite man who…
I am aware, of course, of the VAST vastvastvastvast uptick in products available, the Made-in-China-fication of production and how products are much more accessible for purchase than they were in my childhood and…
When I was a child in the early ‘70s, there were few-and-far-between resources aimed at kids and little media and content aimed at children. (We were Xers after all and at the bottom…
Her Mind. 'Tis the name of a magazine, not promises of insight in a female-identifying person. Other than if you were to want to read the magazine's article about me and my role…
We have a family tradition of conking Easter eggs and having a friendly competition about it. My mother figured out how we could carry on the tradition by zoom, so she set about…
Super lovely party in Annapolis last night. Cj and I have some sort of magic going on: he's got the space and the set up thing and while his home is lovely, he…
RIP, Larry Harvey, founder of Burning Man. Your vision, dedication, bad*ssery and ability to adapt in the face of constant change has changed my life in ways I could never imagine but of…
I had a time in my life when I spent my days intimately involved with a small group of people who were utterly and completely dedicated to personal development and understanding--best folks could--the…