Seagulls are doodah-whatsit protected in this sanity-challenged country.  ARRRRRRRGH.  Now I grew up with seagulls, my father was in the Navy so we were mostly posted near salt water*.  When he retired the family moved to Maine.  & to my own surprise I moved back to coastal Maine as an adult.  I KNOW FROM SEAGULLS.  They’re fine.  Well, they always ( Read more... )

Yes, you’re right.*  There is no reason to start a new blog & then stop posting to it.  Apologies.**

I don’t have an excuse that will adequately cover all the last [mumble-umble-unggle] months, because writing a blog post only takes about 46 hours & what’s my problem?  While a husband to make dinner is helpful it is not strictly required.  Or maybe ( Read more... )

Chapters I-XI are about why/how/WHAT??? I have a campervan, yes, a campervan, what was I THINKING, that I bought a campervan*??  Well, so, in medias res here.  I have this campervan, poor thing, which I rarely use, because rather than my four-wheeled other self, which Wolfgang was, she’s One More Thing & . . . my last post is about how the end of ( Read more... )

You know all those Big Questions?  What is the purpose of life?  Why were we put on this planet?  What is reality?*  What is the future of the universe?**  All those huge searingly intense questions that philosophers*** have exercised their scintillating intellects over for hundreds of years?

They’re barking up the wrong hypothesis.  The real ( Read more... )

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. . . weather.  So yeah.  We’ve been having a hurricane.  All the official news sites & forecasters & blah blah were calling it a storm but that inadequately describes the experience of living through it, especially on the top of a hill, yeep. ( Read more... )