Serenity… an expedition

Well, not me. I have a roof over my head and I suspect most of you do, too. Some people in Haiti (among other places) are in a bad way though, and the people of Daily Kos are doing something about it. Inside a Shelter Box I know, I usually think of DK as being [...]

No sooner had I declared my need for something, anything, to organize my life (which is very disorganized due to all my organizers – well, and the fact that I’m just a tad scatterbrained, but still… ), when Jeff Janer, co-founder of Springpad, dropped into my comments to offer a solution!  Maybe. As you can [...]

When I realized that tonight is the SOTU I thought maybe I’d left it too late (I have not, in fact, even started it yet) but then I realized that, no, the timing was perfect. Regardless of what he says this evening (I understand that part of it is admitting to people’s anger, and I [...]

I am not sure the proliferation of software geared toward helping you organize yourself is all that good of thing. Too many choices. Or maybe not enough choices to fit the needs? I would love to have just one program that is able to do everything I need it to do. I thought, maybe, I [...]

I type too slow. But it’s not entirely my fault. It usually goes something like this: News breaks! I am full of outrage (or the even more furious poutrage) and sit down at my computer to start to send my displeasure clattering away through the intertubes, I’m really into a groove, just getting ready to [...]

There were maybe a hundred “illegal” people milling about, but it’s that little girl spinning in the Miami sunshine, her ribboned braids flying while her dress billowed, making those skinny legs look even skinnier that I remember. She was only about 6 or 7 and so beautiful and hopeful and expectant. And so loved. Her [...]

What an odd sensation! See, I was writing a promised (to me) article on Haiti and it just wasn’t going right. Start, stop. Delete. Start, stop. Delete. Rinse and repeat. Finally I realized that there was a whole nother way of looking at things hovering at the edge of my mind, that I had been [...]

Or something like that. The Color of Words IX Wosene Worke Kosrof, b. 1950, Ethiopia 2002 My ability to play with words, to form memorable phrases and such has not matured yet (if it ever will) but I do love the ability of others I come across. Sometimes it may not even be great writing, [...]

Once again.  cartoon from toothpastefordinner.com Haiti hurt my heart. I’m not sure why as I don’t, as far as I know, know any Haitians, nor have I ever been there. It just did. And unlike many writers/bloggers, when big, bad things hit, my first instinct isn’t to write about it, to react instantly – it’s [...]

I haven’t a clue, but isn’t it cute? I guess it’s a gecko since that is what Paul Anderson calls it in the post I lifted this from. It’s funny – when I first clicked over to the post from the rss feed, I thought I’d already read it yesterday, so moved on. Then I [...]