Last week’s trip to Uvalde County in Texas has proved (after our house guest left) to be…a very strange trip indeed, in light of the school shooting in Uvalde. We were in the northern bit of the county, where the Texas Hill Country begins, staying between Leakey (Real County) and Concan (Uvalde Co.) , and Read More…
Month: May 2022
Brief Absence
A friend’s arriving tomorrow to stay for a week, so I probably won’t get anything posted here in that time. Today was more frantic than it needed to be…I had a full morning planned, but first on the list was paying my credit card bill so I didn’t have to worry…and instead of being able Read More…
Palate Cleanser: Peaceful Evening, With Horses
An evening with Ragtime and Tigger. Warm, a nice breeze. Apparently I have to fill the opening paragraph space or it won’t say “read more” and let you progress to the pictures. That’s a bore. And it won’t show any pictures unless I do; it just compresses the before pics and after pics text. I Read More…
Real History: A Personal Story About Reproduction
This is a true story, not fiction. It happened to my mother and to me. I’m putting it here because it’s a story with multiple characters and a complicated plot and I can’t fit it neatly into Twitter. Also it’s after 11 pm and I’m tired. But here goes. On June 6, 1944, D-Day, my Read More…
Online Advice, Take Two
Firefox has a first page feature called Pocket that offers a bunch of different possibilities to snare the procrastinating internet user. Most of those (over the long haul) involve advice: clothes, home decorating, cooking foods/diet, fitness, health, etc. Many of these Pocket advice articles start with or include a number: the five best (vacation spots, Read More…
Online Advice
Online advice is everywhere, and I do realize that as someone posting online, and sometimes giving advice, I’m part of the trend I’m about to complain of. Naturally, I don’t think I’m the kind of problem others are, but equally naturally if I’m staring at myself in a mirror…that’s not really what I look like Read More…