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Words, words, words
Looking at some semi-random selection of things I wrote years ago, four words kept jumping out at me: ashes, denial, boxes, escape ( Read more... ) -
Friday Five on Saturday
This week's Friday Five
1. How do you like your coffee?
Chocolate-covered espresso beans! I don't actually drink coffee unless I have a migraine and there is no available tea.
2. How do you like your tea?Usually hot without any additives. Sometimes, though, I love a good masala chai, with all the sugar and the spices and the milk (or coconut ( Read more... ) -
Jan. 21 and the sea of pink
There was really never any chance that I'd be able to make it to the Women's March today--my body doesn't deal well with the early part of the day even on my better days, and today is emphatically not one of my better days. But I've been happy to see pictures of the marches all over the world (Antarctica too!), and some of the signs out there are ( Read more... ) -
Quote of the Moment
"I can tell you all I have learned in a lifetime of study in just three laws of history. And here they are ( Read more... ) -
For those seeking reassurance... don't look here
From Why Donald Tump Is Giving John Dean Nightmares (typo in the original title):
Few people are more intimately acquainted than Dean with the consequences of an American presidency gone awry. As White House counsel under President Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1973, he was a key figure in the Watergate saga-participating in, and then helping to ( Read more... ) -
Quote of the Moment
A victim of the cancerous disease of egotism, he failed to realize that wealth always comes as a result of the commonwealth. He talked as though he could plow the fields and build the barns alone. He failed to realize that he was an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead had contributed. When an ( Read more... ) -
Thank you, Scotland
For those who have somehow missed it, this bit of brilliance is from Scotland's Sunday Herald's TV highlights:
President Trump: The Inauguration
4pm, BBC One/ STV
After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the most ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often ( Read more... ) -
In better news
There's gloom and doom aplenty, but here are 99 Reasons Why 2016 has been a great year for humanity.
Also, dinosaur tail, complete with feathers, found in 99-million-year-old amber from Myanmar. Seriously, people, "the tail of a non-avialan theropod (coelurosaur) preserved in Burmese amber, combining bone outlines with microscopic details of ( Read more... ) -
Quotes of the Moment
The habit of narration, of crafting something miraculous out of the commonplace, was hard to break. Narration came naturally after a time spent in the company of talking scarecrows or disappearing cats; it was, in its own way, a method of keeping oneself grounded, connected to the thin thread of continuity that ran through all lives, no matter how ( Read more... ) -
This is America, November 29
So, the person who will presumably become the next president of the United States had a little tweetstorm which included the statement that people who burn the American flag should suffer some consequence like losing their citizenship or spending a year in prison ( Read more... )