Liebster Award Nomination AUGUST 7, 2020 / LYNCRAIN I don’t usually do these because they WERE intended for new bloggers to help boost their readership. I’ve been blogging daily — unless I was in the hospital — for eight years with nearly… Read More ›
History
DOOMSDAY BOOK BY CONNIE WILLIS
I read this for the first time when it was first published in 2008. It wasn’t available as an audible book yet, though it would be soon. So my first reading was words on paper. It’s the story of the… Read More ›
SLAVERY TO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ON THE BLACKSTONE RIVER
You might say the Blackstone Valley was Alexander Hamilton’s dream come true. He wanted the U.S. to grow into an industrial and international powerhouse. This was the subject on which he and Thomas Jefferson fought. Jefferson wanted democracy and a… Read More ›
JUSTICE IS BLIND, DEAF, AND FREQUENTLY DUMB AND RACIST. OTHERWISE, IT’S JUST FINE. – Marilyn Armstrong
Fandango’s Provocative Question #77 It’s another round of provocative questioning from Fandango. Today’s question involves blind justice. I have never believed that our system of justice was genuinely just. I don’t think a lot of our laws are just and didn’t… Read More ›
THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED By JOHN BOLTON – Marilyn Armstrong
I expected it to be dull, but it wasn’t dull. I think I’d describe it as “dry.” Not unlike the material I wrote for many years. I wasn’t going to read it, but I decided my curiosity was stronger than… Read More ›
WHEN AND HOW THE PLAGUE FINALLY ENDED
I had a great conversation with my mortgage bank today. I’ve got a six month don’t have to pay my mortgage thing, but I can if I want to. I want to. Sometimes I have a hard time doing it… Read More ›
TIME AND TIME AGAIN
As kids, we can’t imagine getting old. I suppose that’s normal, especially in this society where young people have very few experiences with elders and are not taught to respect or admire their accomplishments. I didn’t have any living grandparents…. Read More ›
HOW TO ASK ABOUT RACE – Marilyn Armstrong
I read a note on Twitter yesterday wondering “how to ask” about race? I suppose it depends on what color you already are and who you are asking, but let’s suppose you are white and the other person isn’t. Any… Read More ›
BENCHES IN BLACK AND WHITE – Marilyn Armstrong
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Benches With 42 million people unemployed in this country right now — and likely more to come — a bench may be where many families, seniors, children — everyone winds up living. In this house,… Read More ›
OH BRAVE WEIRD WORLD – BLOGGING AND THE PANDEMIC – MARILYN ARMSTRONG
Blogging Insights and the Pandemic From the author, questions about the pandemic and blogging and where you stand as a blogger in relation to it: Posts about the pandemic feature prominently on many (if not most) blogs these days. Blogs by… Read More ›
FOREVER EVOLVING? WHERE AM I? – Marilyn Armstrong
Blogging Insights # 30 – Evolving The question from BLOGGING INSIGHTS #30 – EVOLVING is: “Your blog is never static.It is a living and breathing organism that continues to grow as you grow as a blogger. Sometimes this growth takes… Read More ›
HISTORY AND PLAGUE’S END – Marilyn Armstrong
It turns out that epidemics and pandemics all end the same way. People get tired of worrying about being sick and say “Life or death, I don’t want the rest of my life to be spent in hiding.” It helps… Read More ›
HOW THE DISCOVERY OF GERMS CHANGED SOCIETY – BY ELLIN CURLEY
In ancient societies, people thought diseases were caused by an imbalance of body fluids or by angry Gods. Centuries later, scientists suspected that illnesses might be transmitted through air or water but they weren’t sure how. Then, in the mid-19th… Read More ›
INTRODUCING THE POTATO – BY ELLIN CURLEY
When we celebrate the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus on Columbus Day, we should also be celebrating Columbus’s discovery of the potato. More accurately, Columbus’s introduction of the potato from the New World to the Old World. This introduction… Read More ›
ENDINGS – Marilyn Armstrong
Garry had a get-together with a bunch of retired media guys. They meet every few weeks, but for obvious reasons, it hasn’t happened recently. So a while ago, someone came up with the idea of doing a Zoom meeting. Despite… Read More ›
WORLD OF STRANGE – Marilyn Armstrong
On some level or other, I’ve been waiting for my world to come crashing down since I was a kid. Call it one of the many fragmented outcomes of a dysfunctional childhood. And reading too many complicated books when I… Read More ›
