Writing from within a hamster ball

Photo for The Hull Times “courtesy of” Catherine Goldhammer

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Take This Lollipop

What do we do about ‘privacy?’  Is it overrated?  

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PC vs Mac - viruses

The original anti-mac video

change is not just seasonal

“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”

—Warren Buffett,
American businessman and philanthropist

The mighty i

I am an over user of Pronoun I and have judged myself into silence. I am a faithful over thinker, over organizer and I am over 50.  What am I waiting for?

To have a blog is to write on a regular basis.  To have a blog is to focus on one’s niche and stay there, attracting readers.  Ideally one is a smooth, cool blogger, espousing current thought and culture, rather than one’s own inner dialogue.  Teaching the world also embraces the notion of ‘good blogging.’

The use of ‘Pronoun I’ in more than one blogging paragraph (Generally this is a neat and tidy summary or opinion, barely audible to the reader’s ear) is considered narcissistically limited.

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Two hearts defy theory

Hearts Beat as One in a Daring Ritual

By PAM BELLUCK

For as long as anyone in the tiny Spanish village of San Pedro Manrique can remember, people there have been walking on fire.

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21

2011

Hello.  I have missed you.  So many events are back there it feels too difficult to organize them into a neat summary right now.  I am relearning some important things that I lost like reading and writing.  It is going well, well enough that I intend to practice more here.

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Forced to be Frugal and Self-Sufficient: Tip #1

How to get a cup of coffee when you lost your brakes so you have no car and your coffee machine broke.

Prepare the cash you need to purchase cup of coffee and place it, folded in your pants pocket. Also prepare your route so you are free to balance your coffee cup after mounting said bicycle.

Search the sky for any ominous cloud formations and don appropriate Gortex if needed.

Following your purchase, take several large gulps of coffee to decrease the liquid volume by 30%. DO NOT place cup in water holder or balance on seat of two-wheeler.

 

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33 Miners and Our Journalists

To All the Anchors Reporting on the 33 Chilean Miners:

Do you people ever stop talking long enough to even grasp what is happening?  Have you ever considered that to hear your banal, trap-flapping over the actual STORY highlights what small people we are in the Untied States? 

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Last Halloween

It is almost Halloween.  Oh boy.  That can be such a fun time of year really.  At least I can recall those times.  Costumes, maxi-pads, super soakers, candy, toilet paper and more candy.  All excellent.

I think I might get a costume together this year and go trick or treating.  No I don’t have any of my ‘old costumes.’

Right about now I would really love some candy.  That orange didn’t so much cut the craving.  I wonder if more adults are trick or treaters now that it is so hard to buy food.  Who can afford candy lying around?

I gave up coffee when the machine broke.  That was a few days of a headache is all and honestly I am better for it.  Caffeine is probably not good.  I think that Mischeif Night could be a good night to go out and pretend to be a kid too, because then I could also get some toilet paper.

Telephone Dream

You told me you had a cold and felt “pukey,” and I listened like your Mom, telling you to come home, that you could stay home today.  We would watch movies together.

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Maybe the Goose is in the Wind

The sopping, swollen wind is a constant drive today, heated from the friction of its own movement.  Although it does not belong, I am grateful for its temperature and reminded of months to come when it will bite notches from my skin, unless I escape, migrate or beam up.

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The Wheel Instructomercial

This is actually the Godhelpmeasana pose.  Since I ‘forgot’ which pose I was doing I tried it again

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BCC Me

I got one of those giant group emails recently.  It was a story I heard in the past many times over.  I think it might be in one of the Chicken Soup books. 

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Under the Spell of the Demiurge

Hello.  My name is Lucy.  Lucy Wightman.  Not Whiteman.  Wightman.  My real name is Louise.  I am 51 years old last I checked and for now I live in Hull, Massachusetts. I was many things. 

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Blog, Flog and Log

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Random Googling

I Googled “kicked out of Mensa,” and found little.

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Us Humans