• Not all ideas are not gemstones; some are costume jewelry, but are jus’ as useful.

  • Problems Adding Blogs to Reader

    Is anyone else having problems with adding blog sites to their WP reader? I am have a terrible time with the feature. Sometimes, I will add a site and it’ll appear in my list of ‘Blogs that I Follow,” only to disappear when the site it refreshed or reloaded. And then every time I try to add…

  • Being called ‘lazy’ is so demeaning — I prefer ‘selective participation.’

  • MAGA: Make Alexandria (Ocasio-Cortez) Go Away!

  • Minor flooding depends on what side of the creek you’re standing.

  • Blue Glass

    At first I planned to create a fiction story about my experience (maybe later on I will) — but then I realized, even as hard as it is to admit to my strangeness — it might do someone, somewhere, some good in knowing… As a child I had a bunch of little quirks that made me…

  • Lost Coast: Crescent City’s Missing Dead

    As often is the case, when towns become increasingly populated, the local cemetery is eventually relocated to make more room. One such cemetery, once found at the foot of 9th Street, in Crescent City, California, is now known as ‘Brother Jonathan Point’ and ‘Brother Jonathan Park.’ In 1949, local Kiwanis Club members took it upon themselves to…

  • Reminder to self: never make snow-angels in a dog park.

  • The Rise of the News Bot

    Recently, a friend of mine lost his job at a small town newspaper after 28-and-a-half years of working for this organization. His ‘firing’ is a symptomatic of an even greater problem as technology, used simply for monetary gain, begins to replace human-skill in the newsroom. Many of the US’s ‘leading’ newsrooms are now using artificial…

  • Flush with Pain

    As I sit and type this, I do so while in pain. It began Friday even after going to bed; first a stabbing pain that came and went in a flash, followed by the need to sit on the toilet a couple of hours later. But since the pain had vanished, I thought nothing more about…