All Purls. No Swine.
I'm putting the disclaimer right up front on this one. And here it is. Proceed at your own risk: Over the past thirteen years, I've found friendship, society, community, and even love, in my fairly limited and always rather discreet online activities. Almost one-hundred percent of them have been totally worth it, and have sustained… Continue reading Some More Pointers for 21st-Century Internet Etiquette: In Vino Veritas
Via a Ricochet post from one of my favorites, she who's known as CowGirl, who lost her husband not all that many months ago. It's now on the Ricochet main feed, which means that it is publicly available to all. I've had the experience she describes many times in my life--that of looking up into… Continue reading My Sweetheart’s The Man in the Moon
This post requires a bit of imagination. It involves what used to be called a "poetic conceit," in the days when it was allowable to speak in simile and metaphor, or to employ metonomy or synecdoche, secure in the knowledge that your audience didn't have to know what any of those things actually was, or… Continue reading The Headwaters of the Mississippi, and a Few Other Things
It was sixty-four years ago today, on February 3, 1959. Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson were killed when their plane, a Beechcraft Bonanza, crashed near Clear Lake, Iowa, when the pilot lost control of the plane in bad winter weather, and crashed into a cornfield. All… Continue reading The Day the Music Died
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall--A.E. Houseman The last time I wrote a post on this quote from one of my favorite poets, was in August of 2021. It was on a completely different subject, but I ended it thus: Sometimes,… Continue reading QOTD: “The House of Delusions,” Take Two
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
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
Whatever the cause, my memory is my memory, it does what it does, gathers and curates as it sees fit, and there's just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts. Things like chronology and cause-and-effect are often just fables we tell ourselves about… Continue reading Quote of the Day: On Narcissism and Truth
January 12, 2023 is this year's "Kiss a Ginger Day!" No sense letting Prince Harry have all the fun, so I think I'll throw my hat into the ring with a post originally published on the member feed on Ricochet, six years ago today, on January 12, 2017. Tempus fugit, as they say....(If you're a… Continue reading Growing Up Ginger, 2023
This is the third publication of my Proverbs:31 post on this site. The last was almost two-and-a-half years ago. While I do occasionally republish posts from long ago, I try not to do it to excess. However, recent events, particularly those concerning the arrest of social media and influential member of the "manosphere," Andrew Tate,… Continue reading In Praise of Proverbs 31: 2022 Edition, For Andrew Tate