I have a very nice life. By most objective standards, I have nothing to complain about. Then why do I walk around with a knot in my stomach and a sense of dread in my heart? The answer is –… Read More ›
Month: January 2017
AFTER, THEN BEFORE – BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY
BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: AFTER & BEFORE From Paula: Every Sunday I publish a photo challenge in black and white that I call Black & White Sunday. I usually come up with a fresh theme for it, but this time… Read More ›
A TALE OF THREE JAMES BONDS
Casino Royale, By Rich Paschall When Eon Productions, maker of all those James Bond movies, finally made a film based on the very first Ian Fleming novel, fans of the super spy may have wondered what took them so long. … Read More ›
GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: BISHOP, THE PHOTO-BOMBER
A Photo a Week Challenge: Just Missed I know I’ve shown this picture before, but it my favorite one of Bishop photo-bombing a picture of Garry and the little ones. It means more now that two out of the three… Read More ›
PRIVACY? SURELY YOU JEST (AND DON’T CALL ME SHIRLEY!)
Privacy | DAILY PROMPT If privacy is what you want, what are you doing on the Internet? Seriously. Whether you are a blogger who thinks a pseudonym will keep you off the radar, you are deluded. Even if your merely… Read More ›
Showing Our Appreciation
Originally posted on Evil Squirrel's Nest:
Woohoo! It’s our day!!!! Just for us!!! For the first time since I started the feature in the Fall of 2012, my weekly Saturday Squirrel post coincides with the biggest sciurine holiday of…
ADVENTURES WITH CHARTER CUSTOMER SERVICE
It started out to be a bummer of a day and went downhill from there. We were not watching the inauguration. Pointedly not watching the inauguration. We had been planning all month to not watch the inauguration, so we hadn’t… Read More ›
GRACE – THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE
WordPress Weekly PHOTO CHALLENGE | Graceful
GOOD MOURNING, AMERICA
This blog post has been cancelled today. Miss Pelican is in mourning. Source: Good Mourning, America
EXCESSIVE EXPOSURE CAN BE LETHAL
EXPOSURE | DAILY POST It’s Inauguration Day. In other years, I’d be watching the festivities. This isn’t a normal year and I am not watching. I cannot watch. To do so would feel as if I were giving credibility when… Read More ›
YOU ARE NOT COST-EFFECTIVE. PLEASE DIE.
OR, BECOMING PART OF THE EMERGING DEMOCRATIC RESISTANCE If you have asthma or any kind of chronic medical problem that requires continuing care and medication, that’s the message you are getting. We have had a brief interruption during which almost… Read More ›
LOGAN AIRPORT, BOSTON – CEE’S BLACK & WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Public Transportation Locally, public transportation consists of feet. Yours. Mine. That guy over there. All of these pictures were taken at Logan Airport in Boston. Because there’s nothing more publicly transporting than an airport in… Read More ›
WORK. THE CURSE OF THE LEISURE CLASS.
OVERWORKED | THE DAILY POST Once upon a time in a life long ago, I worked hard. I don’t know if you could call it overworked. I never felt I had more work than I could do — if only… Read More ›
THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: THE OLD CEMETERY IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN
THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: TRACES OF THE PAST Y3-01 There’s ancient. There’s historically old. And then, there’s just old. Or, about as old as you find around here. Definitely traces of our past.
BEDTIME, CLOSETS, AND TINY SHAMPOO BOTTLES – SHARING MY WORLD
Share Your World – January 16, 2017 Do you sleep with your closet doors open or closed? I close them if I remember. For aesthetic reasons. Otherwise, I don’t honestly care. The last time I expected a monster in my… Read More ›
MANY WAYS IN WINTER
Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge – January 18, 2017 It the time of year, I don’t take pictures unless it’s snowing or has recently snowed. Because it’s not awfully visually exciting otherwise. I suppose I’m so used to seasons. I’d… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 