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Some Thoughts and Offerings regarding Ghost Stories

Some Thoughts and Offerings regarding Ghost Stories

I don’t really believe in ghosts.  Or, more accurately, I think I believe that if ghosts exist, they do so in a way that’s just not relevant to me, that our worlds are completely separate, and that theirs does not affect mine.  I’m pretty sure that’s what I believe. It can still be fun to indulge in a good ghost story on occasion.  Especially around Halloween. Ghosts, and ghost stories, I think, have a way of connecting us very deeply…

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Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 2: Cartoon Physics

Quirky (True) Stories: Volume 2: Cartoon Physics

Well, it is time for another round of Quirky (true) Stories.  This time, I have a theme, which is: The evidence I have so far accumulated that many cartoon tropes (and cartoon-style physics) are, in fact, based on pure reality. Evidence the first: Cockroach encounters. Okay, to start, I grew up in Montana, where we kinda, mostly don’t have cockroaches?  I mean, maybe we do, but if so, they keep a very low profile.  So, the first time I ever…

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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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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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