It’s fall, y’all! The leaves are turning, daytimes are much shorter, and a chill is in the air. What a change from just a month ago! Our backyard lawn is recovering. Last month it had almost no grass (see around tent in the image below): Here’s how it looks […]
I’ve been writing for an eco-conscious yachting/shipwreck exploration/global warming research company and suddenly realized I am (and have been) nautical besotted for — oh, probably forever! I’ve often thought I was a dolphin or sea otter in another life, but taking a look around me, everything that isn’t DeForest Kelley or terrestrial critter related is
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It’s pretty safe to assume that businesses and entrepreneurs are finally coming out of their COVID cubby holes. For the past two weeks or so I’ve been INUNDATED with clients, old and new! Five new (two potentially long term) in the past week alone. WHEE! Potential clients are coming to me from Upwork even
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After re-reading some of the notes Alpha wrote, I got to wondering whatever happened to those”writing gems” she kept that I wrote while I was her student. Sure would love to re-read them to see what she saw in them, but I don’t suppose that will ever be possible.I don’t think she sent them to
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It has been 55+ years since I sat in her class and learned from her, but every few years, I receive an extended dream visit from my favorite teacher, Alpha Rossetti. It is always such a pleasure! Last night’s dream was different. The earlier ones took place indoors — I expect because I only
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“Yo ho ho and a bottle of — uh oh, too much rum! The cap’n wrecked the ship!” My aquarium shipwreck ornament arrived last night. I love it a lot! It arrived at about 6:30, so I brought the box in and unboxed it. Then I removed a couple of existing ornaments.
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“Ouch!!! Keep your tony nails to yourself, will you?!” Miss Kitty sat up from her breadbox position near my armpit and leaned back a little, mulling it over. Her face clouded over, perplexed. My “OUCH!!!” had been automatic and loud. It had unsettled her some. (Not anything I ever want to do
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New shoes trip me up. I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced the same thing, but almost every time I buy a new pair of shoes, I spend the first week or so stumbling and tripping in them until the front of the soles wear down enough to adapt to my footfalls. Nancy
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Although I’ve struggled with gender dysphoria my entire life, and although I’m a transgender individual who has had chest masculinization surgery to remove the “lies” that grew on my chest during puberty, I still must state that I love my body. It’s the wrong make and model — it should have additional appendages that it
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I’m with the “If it ain’t broke, don’t replace it” crowd. So much so that I’ve been using my mother’s kitchen blender for at least 25 years, and she used it for probably a good thirty years before I got it, so it’s a true relic. Her Hamilton Beach has been used, dirtied, and
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