My household uses the garage mostly for storage. Some of the electrical equipment that runs our computers is kept in there. When our computers started fizzing out — but only on rainy days — we discovered our roof had leaks. The previous owner apparently had the “Character Disad: Believes he’s a handyman” — since when…
A very wonderful Valentine’s Day to you all! I am celebrating… handing in a chapter! For context: my dissertation has several required chapters — the Introduction and Conclusion, of course. A Literature Review, which is required to show that I’ve done the research on the subject I’m writing on, and nobody’s covered precisely it, though…
Writing up interviews is not easy! From an anthropological perspective, there’s always the worry that I’m committing the ethical crime of appropriating someone else’s subaltern culture. Racially I’m white, and I don’t want to even accidentally appear to act like I’m either stealing the words of, or attempting to speak for, any of the minority…
As the holiday season approaches, I’ve been asked by several folks what I want for Christmas. There are the easy answers, which I suspect I will not receive despite all my dreaming: a white Christmas, rational national leadership, world peace, and all my student loans magically wiped away. :-D When I’m stuck, I’ll often send…
I love the idea of a day for giving gratitude for friends and family, for one’s warm/fed/dry/whatever circumstances, or even simply because feeling grateful helps one to appreciate life more. Just for fun I cooked for a few years… and then I’d had enough of that! We started celebrating at nice restaurants instead. Good food…
Goldie’s Bristly Dental Set Christmas gift finally arrived a few days ago! Here’s my review. The (slightly crumpled) package I received had three items in it: the big, green, sturdy Bristly itself; a smallish tube of “Bristly pre-biotic toothpaste”; and a triangular blue, umm… thing… which is apparently a tongue cleaner. It has a wide,…
Later edit: I was notified that some of the video links weren’t working. I think they all are now, but please do notify me if any of them don’t? Yesterday I bragged on Goldie’s Novice Trick Dog title, so today I’d like to share some of her awesome work on her Intermediate and Advanced titles!…
Later edit: I was notified that some of the video links weren’t working. I think they all are now, but please do notify me if any of them don’t? So there’s this thing called patellar tracking disorder which, if you are a middle-aged or older woman, is apparently something you have to watch out for….
Because I’m feeling somewhat under the weather due to a touch of stomach flu, I’ve decided to put today’s writing time into happy thoughts. The following occurred about two years ago, but it still makes me smile, and people laugh when I tell the story, so I thought I’d write it down to share to…
Author: Maya Angelou Review first posted April 2004 It took a while to decide to review this book. There is an unfortunately strong current societal meme which says if you are: (less victimized, &/or more financially secure, male, white, privileged, whatever) then you don’t get to comment. I understand it’s a natural reaction to the…