I love ants!
I don't necessarily want them in my home, 'course, but they are quite the creatures, are they not?
I was in Costa Rica recently and found myself mesmerized with these leaf-cutter ants.…
I’m a horizontal filer.
The vertical filers, who assume their way is right because office products are made primarily to support their style, call us pilers, or stackers, or maybe even slobs. Well, they…
I had one of those things happen today.
I was running some errands in Takoma Park and felt a need to get home, though I didn't have anything I had to do at any…
Oh, Grogu!
How fortunate are we to live in an era of such wonderful entertainment, story-telling, creativity, fun and adventure. What brilliance in combining The Mandalorian with a baby Jedi such as Grogu. The…
Lunch plans in DC today got rescheduled after I was already in the city, so I decided to make the best of things and go by the national mall.
Oy. Warm day. Spring. Weekend.…
No matter whether the cherry blossoms and first-wave spring flowers come early or late, whether spring is a wet and cool or warm and lovely (well, spring is always lovely in Maryland), or…
We can pretend we're all modern and sh*t. We can wall up in our houses, our structures, our vehicles. We can turn the heat on when it's cold and the AC on when…
I was out of town, grateful for just pitter patter rain while camping at a festival, and I missed the heavy rainfall that caused the second "thousand-year flood" in two years down in…
I closed out the year by doing a ceremony with the entheogenic grandmother medicine, known as ayauhausca, followed by another entheogen: frog medicine, or Kambo. Both have purgative qualities, the frog medicine much more so than…
News of the WMATA Red Line metro crash yesterday made me stop. I was headed out from the j-o-b when I heard the first bit about the crash. I needed to talk with…
Am I really popular, or is there something else afoot? See, I am just boggled. I have received five party invitations for parties occurring on August 2nd. No party invitations for the 3rd,…
Lesson 2: Closing my eyes opens up new worlds
I like to do social dancing (where the man is leading the dance, that is) with my eyes closed. Today I went to a new-favorite dance of mine:…