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Month: April 2017
WHERE’S YOUR POWER?
WHAT EMPOWERS YOU? When you’re worried, frightened. When you’ve lost your way and have no idea what to do, what’s your game changer? Is it a hug from a loved one? Encouragement from peers or colleagues? A visit to the… Read More ›
TRAVEL ON – RICH PASCHALL
Where To Next? by Rich Paschall, Sunday Night Blog Perhaps you have seen the commercials or print ads for a popular travel planning site that features a garden gnome. Yes, a garden gnome! If you have done any travel planning… Read More ›
DESERT PATHS
Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge – April 28, 2017 In the course of events, I dove back into my Arizona folders and realized there are maybe a thousand more pictures ready for processing. So today, we are back in the… Read More ›
ARIZONA DESERT IN BLACK & WHITE AND A PORTRAIT
A Photo a Week Challenge: Black & White From Nancy Merrill: Looking back through past challenges, I found that I have never done a dedicated black and white challenge. It really surprised me. I love editing in black and white…. Read More ›
SOPHISTICATED SKEWERING
One of my pieces was posted on a highly political board elsewhere. You can look it up at INTELLIGENCE FOR THE UNINTELLIGENT – AND BANNON. I gave permission and up it went. Before its time in the sun was complete, it… Read More ›
VAMPIRE COP IN TORONTO – FOREVER KNIGHT
I discovered Forever Knight when it was in reruns on the Sci Fi channel. It was showing around 2 in the morning. Garry was working the dawn patrol and had already left for work by the time the show came on. I was… Read More ›
A LOVE STORY: THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT – EDWARD LEAR
The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear I The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea green boat, They took some honey, and plenty of money, Wrapped up in a five pound note. The Owl looked… Read More ›
KNACKERED OR IN AMERICAN, “POOPED”
Knackered. Over-tired. Exhausted. Pooped. Too tired to even think about “it.” I got an almost entire night’s sleep last night and rather than being wide awake and ready to run, I feel like going back to bed and doing it… Read More ›
KEEP THE THOUGHT
A good idea is like a dream. Perhaps it is a dream, in waking form. It comes misty and bright. Beautiful, floating in your mind. Catch it before it flies away because it will fade to a mostly forgotten memory… Read More ›
BARBERSHOP AROUND THE CORNER – GARRY ARMSTRONG (WITH NEW PICTURES)
Haircuts can be a complex problem for a guy. Nay, you say? Yay, I say — if you’re a man of color. Not all barbers can cut “our kind” of hair. It’s one of America’s darker secrets. If one has curly,… Read More ›
QUOTES WITH RIVERS AND RUSHING WATERS
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Letters Q or R QUOTE RUSHING WATER AND THE RIVER
BLANKETS
We live in New England. It gets cold. Not West Coast cold. We get the real deal, including bitter days with the temperature below zero and piles of ice and snow through which only a snow plow (maybe) can pass…. Read More ›
WANDERLUST IN THE SONORAN DESERT
PHOTO CHALLENGE: WANDERLUST For a woman raised in New York and living in Massachusetts, the desert is another world. The colors of the sky. The mountains jutting into the sky and giant cacti growing across the landscape. We have spent two… Read More ›
WHEN YOU NEED TO FIND A SECTION – CROPPING
THURSDAY’S SPECIAL: SECTION – CROPPING Today I saw a bird I didn’t recognize. At first I thought it was an immature Cardinal, but when I got a closer look, I saw that the beak was not rose or red, but… Read More ›
ROOTS: ROOM FOR REALITY?
I’m not thrilled with news. Any news. I can’t abide right-wing lies based on the exact opposite of what happened, especially when they are talking about things through which I lived and have seen. For shear blatant not-even-a-hint-of truth lying, they… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 