Plain Speaking

Who Frightens the Copyright? Probably Not He Who(m) You Think

Who owns the copyright, once a photo enters public discussion? LOL  No matter of contract (there is none), or employer (there is none), or any other here. Going forward, if you or your slavering ninnies would  like to continue to use my own photograph--or any others--of you (as you've done on multiple sites--and on which… Continue reading Who Frightens the Copyright? Probably Not He Who(m) You Think

Plain Speaking

School: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, Units of Measure Edition

Yeah, really. I've written before about the expressed similarities which my late husband observed might have been true when it came to those between British boarding school children and those who signed up for the US military. "Yes," he used to observe, when I told him about my childhood difficulties with privacy, bathing, personal space,… Continue reading School: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, Units of Measure Edition

Family, Family Matters, History, War

For Jenny Alice May Mapson (Auntie Betty): 2023

She was born in Birmingham on January 23, 1912, into an England that was rending itself apart. Suffragettes demanding a woman’s right to vote were chaining themselves to Parliament’s railings, smashing storefront windows in Oxford Street, and living-room windows in Downing Street. Newly-empowered Socialist labor unions were flexing their muscle, threatening strikes in coal mining,… Continue reading For Jenny Alice May Mapson (Auntie Betty): 2023