Road Trip
One of our daughters and most of Wonder Woman's family live in the coastal city of Wilmington, about a two-hour drive from where we live....
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2024
Follow Friday - With Reasons
10 Recommended Follows for Mastodon I opened my Mastodon account in January of 2024, initially on Mastodon.social but quickly moved to the dazzling community on...
The Phones of Normal People
Now, I realize that there are some folks in the geek space who still make use of default apps. Robb Knight's project from the winter...
Prison Break
Note: As an unabashed and outspoken progressive, I feel like I need to explain how I came to be a part of the prison industrial...
My Life Reading
I have some long-standing interests and past times, but only a few go back to my childhood. I'm 59, so I came of age in...
On Writing
I was an early and voracious reader. At home, my parents weren't pedantic about language. They just used correct grammar and pronunciations and my siblings...
My Reddit Account Can Vote
When I first joined Reddit back in 2006 it was ugly (I mean the design). It definitely had a Web 1.0 or 2.0 vibe. Over...
A Distant Dad
My dad is a typical baby boomer, born a couple years after World War II to a vet from that war. He grew up during...
My First Computer
In December of 1993, I found myself single for the first time in my adult life. I'd just gone through several life changes, getting out...
A Day in the Life
I got up at 4:10am today, about twenty minutes earlier than normal. After making my first cup of coffee, I checked to see if the...
The Road to Hell
A Trip to the LibraryI did it to myself, I suppose. A while back, for a treat, I took a trip downtown, to the Big...
Five Things I've Protested
I was relatively apolitical through my twenties. My mom and stepfather were Democrats when I was a kid and people like Richard Nixon and Jesse...
The Perfect Album
Released in 1982 when I was a junior in high school, Nebraska was Bruce Springsteen's follow-up to The River, a double album he recorded with...
Northern Ireland
I was the kind of little kid who read the newspaper and my parents copy of Time Magazine. I watched Walter Cronkite with my grandmother...
Rules of the Blues by Memphis Earlene
"Rules Of The Blues" by Memphis Earlene 1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning..." 2. "I got a good woman" is...
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One Man's Obsession is Another Man's Passion
My GrandfatherIt is a hallmark of the men in my family to develop passionate, all-consuming interests. My grandfather was like this. Luckily for humanity, his...
Twenty Sublime Moments
Keeping it positive for #WeblogPoMo2024. Everyone has their favorite moments, their favorite memories. These are mine. None of them are particularly monumental and thankfully some...
Feeding Children
One of my recent pleasures is perusing old blog posts from when I used to sit at my desk in the family dining room in...
Making an /Interests Page
On the first day of #WeblogPoMo2024, I read as many entries as I could find. The one that made the biggest impact was by Chris...
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A Treatise on Office Decorations
I love to look at the items people use to personalize their offices. It seems everyone has some sort of statement to make whether they...
My Retirement Disaster
WhyIn 2020, after 27 years working for the state of North Carolina, I decided to retire. I'd spent seven years as a correctional officer working...
Pickled Eggs
Having lived my entire life in the South, I don't know if pickled eggs are a Southern delicacy, or if they are enjoyed nationwide. (Please...
Bringing It All Back Home
Fifty-nine years ago John Kennedy was less than two years dead. Fifty-eight thousand Americans were alive who later died in Vietnam. The social consciousness that...
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If I Was Wise, LOL
My journal prompt for the day was "Are there any words of wisdom you'd like to pass along?" These are my answers: 1. Save money...
A Once and Future Love?
Getting StartedMost of the photographs I share online were taken during a single manic year stretching from the spring of 2014 into the spring of...
