This is The Thing

Yesterday, an “Estate Sale” started at the house across the street. By 9 am (the sale didn’t start until 10) avid “Salers” had lined up down the walk in a neat “U” shape — no one trod on the grass of the lawn — they queued up to the front door, over the porch, then [...]

On Fridays, I am usually conducting circle, and afterward, I often debrief with various compatriots, or decompress by surfing the net/reading email/consuming a book/playing a video game. At the end of any given Friday, I am generally pretty brain-dead in terms of creating prose. So, I am introducing a new feature: Friday Poetry Hour It [...]

I know I needed a good laugh tonight. Seriously — watch the whole thing, then go to www.mrdeity.com and watch the rest of the videos. (Disclaimer: I actually believe quite profoundly in God.)

Recently, I saw a website where you can generate your epitaph I was partial, at first, to this one: Thinking better of this, I now believe that I would prefer something that included the words “grace” and” humor”. I think that I may have the humor piece down fairly well, but . . . *ahem* [...]

Well, it’s late.  I’ve spent the evening (and more) communing/talking/discussing with people that I admire and love (in the truest sense of these words), so I’m going to meet my daily blog commitment by posting a bit of trivia that I learned today from my Beloved: Franz Kafka invented the Safety Helmet. Don’t take my [...]

At times, I am overwhelmed by my desire to simply know everything. There is just so much to know. Today, I took a “day off”, meaning: I shifted a regular weekly meeting to a different day, had no fixed appointments on my calendar, and followed the progression of my day in a completely organic manner. [...]

Yes, that’s right — the plural of “virus” is “viruses” — not “virii”. I looked it up, just to be 100% certain-sure. I’m not going to venture any further down that seemingly divergent path (although I could, pointing out that “viri” is really the plural Latin for “men”) — instead, I’m going to stick steadfastly [...]

I’m giving this a try: Thought I’d put my big-girl panties on and give it a whirl. Don’t worry, this isn’t my whole post for the day — I’ll be back after work for a real post.

A few weeks back, I saw this video on one of my favorite blogs — Shakesville.com (which, unfortunately, is down right now due to a DOS attack) — as the blogger said “This just makes me all kinds of happy”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA (Someday, when I’m a grown-up, I’ll figure out how to embed that into the [...]

Well, yesterday was my 51st birthday. I’m using this landmark to make some commitments to myself (I just love turning over new leaves). One of these commitments will be a daily blog entry. There is just no excuse that I can rustle up as to why I should not do this. I read blogs every [...]