There are many things I’ve never studied that I regret not learning. Had I known it was an option — I’ve always thought I’d have been good at dealing with animals in a zoo environment. I would have loved to care for birds and been part of their world. I would have liked tending to … Continue reading
Remember Prohibition? Me neither. It was way before my time. But I’ve seen the movies. The History Channel is all over this story. Everybody knows it was an outrageous failure that flew in the face of American civil liberties… Right? Except I think we may have been bamboozled. So to speak. According to TIME Magazine, … Continue reading
I spent a great deal of my life being told by other people what I should do and not do. What I should want and not want. And what I should be and not be. Which is pretty rich considering that none of those people was ever actually talking about me. They may have been … Continue reading
How “Dungeons & Dragons” changed my life – Gaming – Salon.com. Okay, I confess. Unlike the author of this really cute and self-discovering nostalgia-all-grown-up article over at Salon, I am not a middle-aged man recalling a youth spent with a floor-full of teenage boys beating the snot out of each others’ characters with two-handed swords … Continue reading
A book. Okay — a children’s book. But then so is Harry Potter, Narnia, Lord of the Rings…. This one is called The Invention of Hugo Cabret. by Brian Selznick (That would be the same Selznick as his great uncle David O. Selznick, and great-grand nephew of Lewis J. Selznick. — IMDB them if it … Continue reading
Reposted to this blog in 2010, and edited slightly for typos in 2012. I’ve been collecting for over 40 years, but most of what I really know personally about the artists who make decks, the publishers, and other collectors is a fairly recent thing. I collect because I love the art, and the idea of … Continue reading
Good Golly, Miss Molly! (to see more or bigger images of these, visit Tarot Garden online — that’s where all but 2 of these decks came from, and they have good images….) This is a the year I did a lot of catching up — I found many decks I’d been wanting for many years … Continue reading
In the (new) tradition of “Real food. -Not so much. -Mostly plants.” Continue reading
Ok. This is one of those list posts…. 25 songs I cannot live without. These are the ones I listen to over and over and never get tired of. These are the songs that play in the sharpest and most important moments of my life. There was a song I first heard in high school … Continue reading
After eating a really wonderful bowl of soup at our local deli, I went online to find inspiration for my own version. A cabbage-based soup is relatively easy to steer into the “great for diabetics” category because of all the wonderful fresh veggies that help make the soup so heavenly. Unlike soups based on potatoes, … Continue reading
So what’s to become of all the creatures currently in the SeaWorld (and similar) parks if the parks close down? I remember when the first of these “parks” opened — and it was such a new thing — a sealife circus (as opposed to an aquarium which is basically a sealife zoo.) And except for … Continue reading
So here’s my latest reformulated comfort food recipe with blood sugar, calories, and cholesterol in mind…..
WIFFA GREEN BEAN STEW Continue reading
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