Month: December 2014
PICTURING 2014
Creating this gallery mirrored my year. There are no pictures at all taken between December 2013 and May 2014. I was either waiting for surgery, in the hospital, or recovering — too sick to go out and shoot. And then… Read More ›
LACRIMOSE ME
Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy – We cry for lots of reasons: sadness, pain, fear . . . and happiness. When was the last time you shed tears of joy? Tears of joy? Yes, there are such things. Because when all was… Read More ›
Memories of My Life In Textile Mills
After the mills closed along the Blackstone River, the owners moved their business down south. It made sense, since cotton mills were the bulk of their business and the cotton fields were in the south. These transported mills became a… Read More ›
INDUSTRY OUTSIDE METROPOLIS
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Industrial It’s a matter of definition. For most of my life, I lived in or around major cities. New York, where I grew up. I don’t know if Jerusalem counts as a major city, but I… Read More ›
2014 IN REVIEW
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Note that Serendipity has not missed a day of blogging this entire year. WordPress ran the statistics on the 29th of December, so it appears two days short… Read More ›
BEING HERE AND NOW
Oedipus defeats the Sphinx by correctly guessing the answer to the following riddle: As babies, we crawl on hands and feet, using four legs. When we grow up, we stand. Thus, as adults, we stride through life upright, on two legs. In old age,… Read More ›
2014: IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR – GARRY ARMSTRONG
I don’t do resolutions and I don’t make promises about the future. If nothing else has been learned, I know I can’t predict how life will go, cannot make pledges based on uncertain destiny. That being said, this is the time… Read More ›
SHARING MY WORLD … END OF 2014 EDITION
Share Your World – 2014 Week 51 Would you prefer snowy winters, or not, and why? I never prefer snowy winters. Not any more. When I was a kid, snow meant not having to go to school and instead, playing in… Read More ›
ALL GROWN UP? A FIXED INCOME AND WHITE HAIR OFFERS A CLUE
I knew I wasn’t a kid anymore when my hair turned white. I am officially as grown up as grown up can be. When you are getting pensions and social security checks and living on them, that’s probably a pretty sure sign… Read More ›
ODD BALL PHOTO CHALLENGE – WEEK 43
Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge: Week 43 I guess what is odd and what is art is a matter of opinion … and my mood of the day. Any of these could be art. Or odd. Maybe both?
WHY TABLETS CAN’T REPLACE COMPUTERS. WHY THEY SHOULDN’T.
I originally wrote a version of this in November 2012. At that time, agreement among “experts” was nearly universal: tablets would replace desktop and laptop computers. Within a couple of years — in other words, now — everyone would be using a… Read More ›
HOW TO WRITE VERY POPULAR ARTICLES FOR YOUR BLOG
From WordPress, today’s Daily Prompt: Hindsight — Now that you’ve got some blogging experience under your belt, re-write your very first post. Oh come now. Really? I don’t even have my first post. I deleted it years ago. Does WordPress believe all… Read More ›
LIGHT OF MORNING
After almost two weeks of grey weather … and during the shortest days of the years, so it never quite felt like daylight had arrived at all … the sun finally came back. The best part of these darkest, shortest… Read More ›
WHAT ARE YOU DOING NEW YEAR’S EVE?
The Jackpot Question, Rich Paschall, Sunday Night Blog By now you are expected to have a good response. So what is it? What are you doing? Certainly your friends have been asking and you must have something interesting to say. Unless you… Read More ›
Explainer: How Democrats and Republicans ‘switched sides’ on civil rights
Or, how the “Party of Lincoln” became the preferred party of racists everywhere. I just about lost my damn mind this morning after coming across this piece from the National Review about how Barry Goldwater totally wasn’t all that racist or anything…. Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 