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The Super Awesomeness of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

The Super Awesomeness of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

Alright.  I think it’s about time I tell you all about what might very well be my very favorite movie: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black, among many other excellent actors. For those, poor souls, who might not be familiar, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle came out in 2017 and is sort-of-a-reboot-of and sort-of-a-sequel-to** 1995’s Jumanji starring Robin Williams and Kirsten Dunst.  In both Jumanji’s, the premise is a game, which turns itself into a…

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Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 1

Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 1

These stories are all apropos of nothing.  I offer them merely for the sort of entertainment one gains from truly random things. 1.1  How I learned coincidences that span the globe are just like other coincidences. So, it happened like this.  It was my senior year of college, and someone in my belly-dance class had invited me to tag along to a hafla, which is just Arabic for ‘party’ and was pretty much just a group of other college students…

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Happy my-Mama’s Birthday!

Happy my-Mama’s Birthday!

“Your girls are so lucky.”  It was after a TaeKwonDo class, and I was dropping off a classmate home, telling her about my little girl who had (still has!) such a talent for drawing. “What do you mean?” I asked. “We weren’t allowed to focus on anything that wasn’t ‘serious’ when I was growing up,” she said.  “Sports were okay, but not art.” And I was kind of gob-smacked.  Up until that point, I had really never conceived of a…

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My Brain is Nauseous* – Can I Go Home Now?

My Brain is Nauseous* – Can I Go Home Now?

(*) Well, dang.  It looks like mental fatigue is a beast I still haven’t licked yet. That’s the thought that crossed my mind last year after I’d been hammering away at assembling a formal code update and found myself (once again) feeling extremely mentally rundown. Except that ‘mental fatigue’ and ‘run down’ really don’t cover what it feels like, and, taking another look at that sentiment from this perspective of a year later, there’s also this whole extra layer of…

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The Lost Art of Video Stores

The Lost Art of Video Stores

So, I wanted to do a post that was going to be, sorta kinda, about one of my favorite fairy tales.  But then I realized there were a lot of different layers to that, not even necessarily relating to said fairy tale at all, and that what I really need to post about was Video Stores! I spent a non-insubstantial fraction of my formative years in video stores. From the time when I was little and slammed my sister’s hand…

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Story Ideas are Cheap – An Example

Story Ideas are Cheap – An Example

Okay, it’s time for another post about writing (because I like to write about writing, apparently).  This one is about story ideas! Story ideas are lots of fun and can feel really precious, but are actually pretty darned easy to come by.  This, of course, is not news.  It seems like nearly every writer’s blog I’ve read has some variation on the idea that story ideas are the easy part of writing (the actual writing is way more work!), or…

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Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2023 Look-back

Day-Moon – Crow-Moon 2023 Look-back

Happy Solstice! The 2024 new year is coming soon, and with it, I’ll be hitting the 1-year mark of having this blog.  Therefore, for the final, regular (non-weekly-garden) post of the year, I’d like to do a look-back of what I’ve done with this blog over the course of 2023.  When it comes to any sort of hobby, I’m definitely prone to, and enjoy, tabulating the various stuff associated with it.  And so, without further ado: General Accomplishments 1. I…

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2023 Writing Progress

2023 Writing Progress

Okay.  We’re closing in on the end of the year.  Which is the first year I’ve had this blog.  Which I started in large part because I wanted a place to be able to talk about my writing (and my garden).  You’ve seen my garden, so now, the least I can do is tell you how my writing’s gone this year. The short answer is: Not as great as I was hoping. But, I didn’t do nothing.  So, I’ll give…

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The Fall of Ile-Rien, and Love-you-as-you-are Romance

The Fall of Ile-Rien, and Love-you-as-you-are Romance

I just started re-reading a book I really like.  Though some people re-read a lot, for me it’s really rare, even with favorite books.  Though…perhaps lately it’s been getting less rare?  I think this’ll be my third time through this one. The book is called The Wizard Hunters and is the first in a trilogy called The Fall of Ile-Rien by Martha Wells.  Like many, I quite like a lot of Martha Wells’ work (Murderbot, anyone?), but I really think…

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Quick-Chores

Quick-Chores

Okay, friends.  I think it is time to tell you about something I call Quick-Chores, which is a house-keeping tactic I’ve been playing with this year, to varying degrees of success. First, I should say that on the spectrum of people, I am the sort of people who neither enjoys housework, nor feels strongly compelled to do very much of it.  I think I’m in a lot of pretty good company.  Never-the-less, I do prefer a clean house to a…

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