My sister Laurie's memory is even more detailed than mine, and even though forty years ago tonight ( Read more... )

By the time Laurie and I hatched, in 1964, on the very precipice between the baby boomers and Generation X, pop culture was mixing up the kitschy and the surreal like crazy, as if it was serious drama! Sci fi and horror are really fun. Movies that are called thrillers or suspense, not so much. In that way I am similar to my young friend ( Read more... )

Life here at the SRI has been busy and not without its good times ( Read more... )

Susan Olsen is raising the bar on reality-show-quality
by focusing on kitten foster care in a humorous way,
but this is a cause she promotes all the time, seriously ( Read more... )

Glad to find out there are some communities for the grownups on LJ,
don't know why I didn't search for them until the Fifty_Something community was spotlighted.
I have joined it a few years early, yo :-)

I found another groovy community, the Over_Forty list! Hello ( Read more... )

dAuNtLeSSnESS

I'm now doing Thursdays on the 1word1day community. And I accidentally crossposted it on my own LJ but it's a pretty good word this time. And I recommend that community every day for good words.

dauntlessness
noun, the quality of not being intimidated; fearlessness

click here for the Thesaurus.com entry!

from bartleby.com : Middle ( Read more... )

Edit: Good coincidence, I finally got around to writing a much longer
review of the writing class I took last February, and now you
can hear
Lynda talking about creativity on NPR June 2nd, 2008!!

( Lynda Barry's Writing Class )

Since my previous post was long and newsy, today's will be short 'n' sweet.

Click here to take my synaesthesia survey.

Not sure if non-LJ users can take LJ polls, but I did make it open to everyone.
The online quiz my new friend rebelace found, to get your own results for the meme below is more challenging than my poll above, but you might find it ( Read more... )

Too much good stuff happening to even take time to blog about it,
but since I have met some new local folks on LJ and in "real" life,
and finding people I used to know on the internets,
(mostly MySpace), here's a link back to the tags of gloryThe bar-graph of visitation is pretty lame now, because I haven't been doing polls or posting here for ( Read more... )