Category Archives: self
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Today was a unique experience to me, but one that could be played out all over this country. I knew my ancestors had slaves, but today I met my cousins, the descendants of those slaves at a reunion of the … Continue reading
Chickflix is online
A couple of years ago, my roomies Hannah and Ellen and I started talking about a website. Hannah even registed the name Chickflix.net and there it sat in cyberspace until now. Being that we are all 3 unemployed for the … Continue reading
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Life on the other end of the worm hole
How did this happen? I live in Ashevegas. Slang term used for the city of Asheville located in the southern Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina. Noted for it’s liberal, tolerant, live-and-let-live social culture making it quite different from most … Continue reading
Moving
I have officially moved from LA to NC. Scary thought! Sure there were those years in Shanghai in between. And I am not so sure that small town America is the place for me, but at least for the time … Continue reading
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21st Century Hobo
While in St. Louis for Thanksgiving, I was talking about being a wanderer, adventurer and came up with my new job: 21st century hobo. Then of course, as I am always anxious to be up on the necessary skills for … Continue reading
Happy Reading List
Seems books are popping up in front of me right and left begging to be read. I consider buying them all, taking the stack to a desert island and reading for days, then waiting for the epiphany (in the warm … Continue reading
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Brain Stretching
In Dorothea Brande’s book Wake Up and Live, she suggests twelve mental exercises to pull you out of your usual habits and put you in situations that demand resourcefulness and creative problem-solving. Her premise is that people who stray from … Continue reading
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