2023

The jobs we don’t think about.Today, I am thankful for all the people who do the hard work all around the world. People work.And all of our work, all that we do, is connected. There is not one person on this planet who is not dependent on someone else.We need each other. Some jobs are […]

Virginia Woolf killed herself. She was 59 years old when she decided to end her life. She’d had enough. So many talented, artistic, creative people end their own lives. I think the pendulum swings back and forth, from the “seeing” to the “not seeing.” Her full name at birth was Adeline Virginia Woolf. Today is

Have you ever been lost? That question, in itself, begs another question. What is being lost, exactly? It can mean all sorts of things, such as being unable to find one’s way. Not knowing one’s whereabouts. Like back in the days before GPS in our cars, and every so often, we wouldn’t know where Aunt

I’ve often wondered what it would be like to be a news reporter. You know. One of the talking heads, sitting there at the Channel Three News Desk, with a little three on my blazer pocket. If I could pick my own news, I think it would be fun — to sit there all somber-faced

Words. We need them. We use them. And they shape our lives at every turn. Sometimes, we don’t know what they mean. Most people, in that case, will consult a dictionary. If you’ve ever looked up the word “dictionary” in the dictionary, here is what you will find:_______dictionary | ˈdikSHəˌnerē |noun (plural dictionaries)a book or

I can’t help but to see Tom Hanks on the beach, half-nakers in his little loincloth, building fire. This, of course, comes from the great movie Castaway. He pounds his chest and screams to the heavens, “Fire! Fire! I have created fire!” A lot of times, I revamp this scene whenever I build a campfire

Smarty. Some people are smarter than others. It is just the fact of the matter. Some folks are good at jumping jacks. Others might have some mad knitting skills. And then there are the smart ones. The gray matters. The big brains. We measure intelligence in different ways. Most of the time, this is done

Today’s blog is by Linda Stowe, in part. She wrote this as a part of our Wordle Words, the stories we compose daily with our Wordle guesses. _______ Lillian Virginia Mountweazelby Linda Stowe Lillian was in the darkroom when she heard someone knock on her front door.She had not yet started developing the film, so