Month: June 2017
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Annoyed Grunt
If any fans of The Simpsons are reading this, they will understand what I mean by that title. If not, I’ll let you in on the reasoning at the end. Well, I effed up my project. I effed up my project in such a way that I had to perform some surgery on my afghan. […]
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Local
Local Locus. Locality. Location. Location, location, location. Local. We all know what the word “local” means when we look it up in a dictionary: Adjective. Referring to something nearby. But what does “local” mean to each and every one of us? I cannot speak for the other billions of human beings on this planet, but […]
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On Fathers
Today is Father’s Day here in the States. It doesn’t quite get as much fanfare as Mother’s Day gets here in May (and seeing as I have at least one follower from the UK, yes, we celebrate Mother’s Day here in May instead of March like you all do). Maybe that’s because male gender roles […]
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Randomly on a Friday
Well, the gray finally went away…for now. This time of year in Florida is famous for afternoon thunderstorms that pop up out of nowhere (especially when the seabreezes from both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts collide right over the peninsula), so it could very well be gray and stormy by late this afternoon. You remember […]
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WIPs: 6/14/2017 (or, An Update on La vie en rose et violet)
In which I give to you the latest update on my current Work in Progress.
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PULSE: One Year Later
One year ago today, something unthinkable happened: a gunman with terror on his mind and hatred in his heart decided to take out his depravity on a nightclub in my birth city of Orlando, Florida. When all was said and done, 49 innocent souls and the gunman lay dead in that club. I am, of […]
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Gray, Gray, Go Away
Florida’s “wet season” has arrived in full swing after quite the dry spring. For the last few days, the view has pretty much looked like this: And this… Even my dog is bored. From what I gather, it is gonna be like this pretty much through the next week. Oh boy. Hopefully I will have […]
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Her First Orbit
On Tuesday, June 6th, my little niece will be celebrating her first birthday, the first anniversary of her entering this world and marking the completion of her first orbit around the Sun. We celebrated her birthday a few days early, on Saturday the 3rd. What has happened in that first orbit? I remember entering that […]
The Snowless Knitter 