Happy Hallloween! Photo above from my archives: Me posing as Deaken’s mom-cat during Halloween in the early 1980’s when I worked at the Animal Protection Institute in Sacramento, California SPIDER ALERT! SCROLL DOWN PAST THE NEXT PICTURE IF YOU’RE AT ALL SQUEAMISH ABOUT SPIDERS The golden orb spiders multiplied by two times in […]
I dyed my hair yesterday. No allergic reaction was detected (except for the slightest sensation at first, which is customary), so I’m still alive and will be having it cut today. Here’s the after dye/before cut image (taken just now): It’s still pretty short, but scruffy looking. I don’t know if I’m gonna get
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WONDERFUL NEWS! Lisa Twining, my Best Friend Forever, is booking her flight to Costa Rica today! She won’t be arriving any time soon, but her vacation dates will at least be on the calendar so we can start counting the days!!! I’m sooo happy! Now I have to think of something for her
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Today after walking for an hour this morning, I spent the time reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (in English) and studying more Spanish, so I feel accomplished tonight. The two days of hour-long walks have brought my weight back down to where it was before (153 to 155), so I know that’s the
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Today is Lisa Twining’s birthday. She is my best friend forever and this is the first time in more than ten years that we haven’t been together to celebrate it, so I’m bummed. But being bummed didn’t stop me from video-calling her on WhatsApp first thing this morning to wish her a
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I finished Robert Reich’s excellent new book COMING UP SHORT this morning (I highly encourage you to read it) and I’m now well into AN ELEPHANT IN MY KITCHEN (another excellent book for animal lovers). Back story: I downloaded several books to my Kindle before leaving the States so I’d have something to read
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I finished the book this morning, so I’m free and clear to blog again. Now I just have to figure out what to blog about, since I haven’t done anything new or noteworthy for three days. Grocery delivery due today I’m supposed to get a grocery delivery today, but nothing has arrived
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Good afternoon from El Cajon Costa Rica! I didn’t post anything this morning because I’m more than halfway into the pages of a book that Jon Graham Mitchell loaned to me on Friday. It’s called Like People in History by Felice Picano. It’s a semi-fictional account of a number of gay individuals who lived
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“Soooo… Did you see iguanas at the feria today?” you may ask… Oh! My!! Gosh!!! I saw just about every color iguana known to nature, I think. They were hanging out in the freaking feria parking lot because the fruit and vegetable vendors feed them their scraps. I lost my mind. I
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I fell asleep this afternoon during a thunderstorm and awoke to a beautiful mist similar, but more profound, to the image below. Alas, I didn’t think to capture it until too late. Me dormí esta tarde durante una tormenta de truenos y desperté a una hermosa niebla similar, pero más profunda, a la imagen de
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