Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

I’d never heard of the actress Brittany Murphy until she died. Now, apparently her husband, Simon Monjack, has died, too, and the only reason I know of him is because he was married to Brittany Murphy. That all just seems so strange. Sorry for the families and all their losses.

(Yes, yes this is an odd post but, strangely, my site comes up first (at the moment) in a Google search for “luddite-ism” – who even knew that was a real way of writing that? – I am so proud, lol. Anyway, from the number of people looking for a definition of that term, I’m [...]

One puzzling question I’ve been seeing, reading various poliblogs, goes something like – where is the far Left in this country (U.S.)? My immediate thought – well, it’s right here, in many on and offline communities of color, in Labor, in some feminism, in some liberalism. In other words, pretty much where it’s always been [...]

I downloaded some writing prompts recently, with the intention of doing one each day to jump-start my writing. This plan has worked, though perhaps not quite in the way intended. It’s more like when a doctor tells you if you don’t do this, you’ll have to do this other awful thing, you know? Take pills [...]

I was doing so well there for a bit, too. Watching both the first season and the… fifth? whatever the last season was, together, figuring I could meet the story in the middle and somehow figure out what was going on. Kinda weird seeing characters as ghosts or something first, then going back and finding [...]

If she makes it to the top again, or even close, it’ll likely be on the wings of those who remember before and who love her, fans and whoever else. Because, it seemed to me, listening to her this morning on Good Morning America, that the voice… well. It’s no longer a Voice. I guess [...]