Curiosities

Hello, it’s been a while…

Hello, it’s been a while…

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…

Three saguaro cacti up on a hill

Love, Longing, and Hotdogs

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…

squirrel on a ledge, looking into a window. A walkway and lawn are behind him.

“Separation,” Synchronicity, and a Surprising Case of Writer’s Block

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…

green, grassy field surrounded by darker green evergreens and lighter green bushes. The wooden chapel is out in the distance with a peaked roof and a spire.

Holy Rollers and the End of Sunday School

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…

evening sky shot, angled upward. On right and across the bottom are trees and mountains in the distance and in the opposite corner is dark grey sky cutting diagonally across the frame. There is a small triangular wedge where the sun is trying to peek out, beams of light streaking downward with fluffy white and grey clouds.

Not so secret obsession: discussion threads

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…

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