Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

I think by now that just about everyone who might be connected to any electronic device or back-fence communication knows that Osama bin Laden is dead. The news was announced yesterday after first hurtling around the world on Twitter and other social networks, then the media. Too many reports to choose from for my obligatory [...]

a Ministry of Silly Hats? If not, I know the perfect person to establish one:     Princess Beatrice (who is she, anyway?) appears to be a serial silly hat wearer: So, I vote for her to establish, and perhaps endow, the Ministry of Silly Hats. Whoever she is (perhaps Fergie’s daughter? She has that [...]

So, I think I’ve come to an agreement with myself on time. I wake up before the dawn on most mornings, get my coffee, feed the obnoxious cat, and almost immediately start dithering about which to do first while everything is quiet. My stuff, or stuff for work. Well, no more. Dawn, I have decided, [...]

I wanted to write about something today. But, as usual when I’ve neglected writing too long, the habit of silence is strong and I can think of nothing to say. Birds are singing outside my window. I mostly hear the fast-paced, high-pitched twittering of what sounds like the morning gossip of the little birds. Occasionally [...]

He didn’t start off that way, of course. In fact, the character didn’t start off being anything but a quick blip in the pan in the first place. But then he kept inserting himself more into the story, so I had to figure out his name, and give him a personality and stuff… and that’s [...]

And I was, really, when I wrote this title last night. But I’ve been “politically involved” for approximately one day and already I am tired of it. Sigh. I think, possibly, it’s because it seems to me that to get to the Teabag Republicans we have to go through all the perpetually disappointed Democrats first. [...]

I have a new post up at The Book of Louis, talking about the New York Times Disunion article, How Slavery Really Ended in America. The Disunion series itself is fascinating to me, because I know only the basics of Civil War history. Ta-Nehisi Coates, when he was in his U.S. Civil War phase (he [...]

Well, one of my other sites, anyway. The family history one. I was kind of ignoring it for a while, but then a history teacher and researcher visited to talk about some of my ancestral family members. He lives in the area where they were born and raised and he knows quite a bit more [...]

One thing I’ve always found annoying is how so much information and knowledge is just walled off. I can understand, of course, publications need to be paid for their work, but unless you belong to an academic institution or have access to a library, it’s sometimes very difficult to access years, decades, even centuries worth [...]

I used to have the sweetest cat. Really! Very polite, never jumped up on the counters, ate only off of her own plate, would sit by my pillow and wait patiently until I woke up in the mornings, was always so soft and cuddly, good with kids, all of that. And then she got old [...]