Serial Story: Don’t Look Away, Ch. 31
This serial story is posted one chapter per week on Fridays, in unedited (draft) form. It may contain adult situations that might not be suitable for children. Missed a few…
Read moreExercise, Focus, & House Names
I tend to think of my brain as the “command center” for my body – I think we all do, at least to some extent. And in a lot of…
Read morePoetry & Taxes
April is National Poetry Month, which I normally kind of ignore. It’s not that I don’t like poetry – I like some of it quite well, in fact. Shakespeare’s sonnets…
Read moreWell Alrighty Then
It’s hard to know what to say after a week like last week. Here in the US, we elected a new president, and the results were rather…unexpected (even for the…
Read moreSelf-Sufficiency in a Loom
Last weekend, I went to a Fiber Festival here in town (the first one I’ve ever heard of). No, it didn’t feature prunes, beans and high-fiber foods…we’re talking textile fibers.…
Read morePatience, Grasshopper
Patience isn’t an easy thing for most of us. When I was young (say, elementary school through high school), I always wanted time to move faster. I couldn’t wait to…
Read moreOn Notes, Ink, Postcards, & Peace Camp
Funny how the first three title subjects have something to do with writing, and yet for the purposes of this post, it’s the most tenuous of threads… The Note(s) My…
Read moreGone to the Dogs: Behold the Gates of Hell
Murphy sez: I had no idea that the entrance to the underworld was right at our front door, but last Sunday, this guy I’d never met before walked right in…
Read moreOn Mold, Health & Charity
So I went to taste my new jars of sauerkraut last Wednesday and…they smelled like mold. Dammit. I knew it was a risk, because I was using cabbage that had…
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