Serenity… an expedition

Don’t eyeglasses come with tiny chips that call home when they are lost?

[photo from here]

This and that about not very much.

I like rocks. I used to collect them, sort of. Definitely not in any sort of organized way, just here and there as something caught my eye. An unusual shape or color, maybe.
I remember one time a young boy came to my door – he looked sort of like [...]

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 had [...]

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 ignoring because… [...]

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 realized [...]

Mom is watching a PBS show, some sort of oldies on Ed Sullivan thing. 60’s and 70’s – sounds of my childhood and teens. Good stuff
Of course I have to do the obligatory “They were so young!” exclamation. And also, “wow – most of those people would have been out of luck in the [...]

Because it seems we sure didn’t used to.
Reading lately about the underground railroad (great stuff!) and other things dealing with the antebellum South, and I got to wondering…  when enslaved persons ran away, how did people recognize them?
For instance:

This says, in part- $150 REWARD
Ranaway from the subscriber, on the night of Monday the 11th July, [...]

I had a whole day almost to myself today. What a change! And what a necessity.
Of the so many things I have to do, I actually did very few of them. Or, rather, halves of everything. Half the laundry done (washed and folded, but not put away), half the kitchen cleaned (floors, counters, dishes but [...]

We’ve had something like 35 days near or over 100 degrees so far this summer and much less than normal rainfall the past few years. Of course, this being California – with our ever green lawns and ubiquitous swimming pools – you’d never know it, if not for all the melting people.
The farmers are all [...]

Even I would be tempted to get one. (I stole this ad from the one on Atrios).
And I don’t run around collecting memorabilia related to this or that celeb. It’s just such a rarity to see contemporary, realistic Black figurines and to also see particularly Black women depicted with such… well, grace is the only [...]