If you’ve gone onto FaceBook to find me, you will not find me there, alas. I restarted my phone yesterday, and this seems to have caused a glitch with FaceBook, making them ask me to validate my identity. I sent them a picture as they requested. The responding message said that they would be comparing […]
This Win Is For You, Dad
I don’t know what year it was, but once upon a time, the Chicago Cubs came to Denver to play the Rockies. This was baseball, and while not any passion of mine, my Dad loved the Cubbies, being Chicago born and bred. My idea was that it would be nice if Dad got to see […]
Pretty Arrows Do Not A Bullseye Make
Back in the day, I went to Camp Hitaga, which is a Camp Fire Girls camp in Iowa. It was 1974 and I was 12. I can’t explain how I got to go to a sleep-away camp in another state, because I was the Camp Fire Girl who never really had a uniform to speak […]
After The Crime Is Committed
In the midst of my gearing up for a steady two-thousand words-a-day NaNo writing pace, I discovered that I live on a very active corner. Over the weekend, around 10:30 pm (or so), I heard someone pounding on a door. Not my door, but someone else’s door, real close. (I could hear this because my […]
I Do Not Like This Song, But Still
Just to let you know that at least two times I have sat through the excruciating one and a half hours of Frozen, which, somehow, in spite of the plethora of plot holes, has become an example of a movie well loved in spite of itself. And as much as I can’t stand the movie, […]
Pardoning Those Convicted Unfairly
There’s been a recent petition on Change.org to ask the British Government to pardon all those men who, like Alan Turing, were convicted for being homosexual or bisexual and other states of “gross indecency” during the 20th century. Alan Turning was granted a full posthumous pardon by Queen Elizabeth II in 2013, which was the […]