Curiosities

One of the coasters from a set that Chia laser printed for me in Engineering Science class. This is his show of support (he doesn’t follow me on social). I have a bucket full of ideas, as well as “folder” filled with newsletter and blog drafts, yet I haven’t been making any of them public. I’d been doing a lot of prevaricating (I always think of Wallace and Grommet when I hear…

When we first moved to Arizona, I had a series of terrible temp jobs. No one wanted to hire a recent graduate who had BA in German Area Studies and another BA in Comparative Literature.  No one.  There were very few interviews I went to that didn’t ask this as a final question: “So, do you speak any Spanish?”  I could tell that the question was a comin’ when the interviewer’s eyes lit up…

My plans were to post something on Groundhog Day that was funny and informative. Instead, I ran into an odd childhood memory and Venn diagram of sorts. Six degrees of separation, animal style, and a week late. Memories and synchronicity kicked in causing a lot of writer’s block. Giving up all my original ideas, I finally allowed this post to take a wild turn. You see, I was thinking about how I…

Since I went down memory lane with She’s dead to me, and phrases I’d “never heard before,” I thought I’d regale you with a story I heard my freshman year of college. I worked multiple times jobs while I was in college, one of them at a restaurant. The later the night, the wilder or more personal the stories became. Clears throat: off-color and inappropriate. A group of us were talking about…

I have this not so secret obsession with hearing other people’s stories–I love it! Since the pandemic had limited everyone’s in-person face time, I found that I took to reading discussion threads. It became a daily, sometimes twice daily, activity on newsletters and sites such as The George Takai report, Quora, and Factinate (which I found on Quora), occasionally other sites. I’ve cycled through periods of obsessively reading these threads, even when…