My reading goal for 2019 was to equal or exceed my number of Books Read in 2018. I didn’t make the goal.But that’s okay.Because that’s just how life flows sometimes.Forward.Backward.Sideways.Pooling on the ground.Dripping through the cracks.Flowing up. And I flow with it. * = extra memorable and/or illuminating** = the author has been spying on …
Via @MrSteveProctor on Twitter:
“Penn Square (Mall in Oklahoma City) used to be an open shopping center. Santa arrived each year via helicopter, climbing down a rope ladder. (In) 1963, Santa’s pants fell off while he was still in midair. It was the best thing ever.”
Pantsless Claus.
Courtesy of Alexa, I have just revisited a vivid childhood memory that I think I have avoided for what might be decades. I grew up listening to holiday mixtapes that my parents recorded in the early ’70s, late 70s, early 80s. These were the “classic” holiday faves via Bing Crosby, Brenda Lee, John Denver, Nat …
So, I am currently in Twitter jail for unknown reasons. The lack of ability to spout my thoughts into the Void / Not-Quite-So-Void is driving me a little batty, so I’m actually blogging! GASP AND EGAD. Hopefully, since I can’t even tweet a link to this post, it will still reach someone out there in …
Just some brief newsy things. I swear, at some point I really will offer some material with meat here. I am so very entranced with all the paradigm-changing gobbledigook I’ve been intaking lately, it’s gotta come out here at some point. And it will. But for now, updatery: As promised, here’s a link to my …
Well, I’ve missed a few weeks again of blogging here. It’s because late July through end of August kinda kicked my tushie. The kid was sick. I was sick. The two of us went on a last-minute mini-vay with my mom. The kid started 1st grade. (WHAT MANNER OF INSANITY IS THIS.) I got sick …
Lots going on the past few weeks, y’all. The kid was sick. I was sick.We started collectively preparing for the summer to end and the new school year to commence.My mom took the kiddo and me on a last-minute weekend trip to Bartlesville, OK, where we visited Woolaroc, went antiquing (I bought my first piece …
Tally-ho, cutiepies! I was piffling around on Twitter and found a dream I’d shared there last year. Since it’s been forlikeEVER since I’ve blogged a dream, I thought it high time to rectify that oversight. *ahem* Here goes…. October 25, 2018Thanks to last night’s insomnia, I had to take a mid-morning nap or die. So …
