Serenity… an expedition

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

My thoughts are not connected enough to write a real post, so here are just some things come to mind. Some of my books – for the writing of the book – are in at the library so I have that to look forward to, over the next few days. I ordered a couple of [...]

It’s been a very hot, tiring day and I find that I just don’t feel like writing anything this evening, so I won’t. Except, you know,  I just caught sight of something in the test pattern photo – namely, the Native American chief image there, right at the top. I’ve never noticed that before. Or, [...]

NOW had an election. Who knew they even had elections? My thoughts are still with the people of Iran. What a mess – it certainly seems incontrovertible that election was very flawed, but there is more to it, of course, and hopefully something good will come out of all this tragedy. I hold no brief [...]

BBC – In pictures: Iranian art in the US I am not sure of the origin of that saying, but I think most children of color (of my generation, anyway) had that instilled in them from early on. For some reason I’ve been thinking of that a lot, lately. I know even less about Iran [...]

Do I still have to do this since I posted other stuff today? Nope – but I find I want to. I think it’s a nice place to just drop the leftover thoughts of the day – sort of like Dumbledore’s bowl in the Harry Potter books. I forget what it was called… pen something. [...]

It’s 10:07 pm as I sit down to write this and that only matters because I have to get this written and posted before the clock strikes 12 (if I had a clock that struck instead of just gently plopping over, that is). Why? Well, since you asked, see that little calendar in the sidebar? [...]

Remember that saying? I don’ t know if it’s popular today – Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace, Wednesday’s child… well, it was very important to me, when I was a child, not to have been born on Wednesday because I so didn’t want to be full of woe. [...]