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You'll find a bit of everything on my blog, except poetry.
I make no bones about the peculiarities of my own life
Daily writing promptWho are the biggest influences in your life?View all responses We can create tedious lists of inspirational experiences and people who helped make us who we are. A few of the braver ones will add in the villains who we reacted to giving good against their bad. They helped shape us, too, if …
Why blog? I could scribble on social media, post memes that thousands of others have also posted, or elaborately describe my recent meals and who I saw last week, but I would rather spend some time every day reading and writing something that I find diverting, interesting, or funny. I tried doing this on FB …
A cul-de-sac is not just a location with houses on it. It can be a place of mind, too. Look at it this way: On an average cul-de-sac, the traffic is almost exclusively generated by people who live there and their deliveries. But you and I have known people whose intellectual and emotional lives are …
I once imagined setting up a shop on a waterfront and selling the carvings that I created. Then, reality intervened when I considered the actual costs versus the take minus the overhead. It was a wonderful dream, but keeping a shop and trying to carve in volume stopped being a dream I might actually do …
We often forget that the most important thing we carry with us is ourselves—the one inescapable piece of equipment. No, we can't drop it off at the recycling center, and pick up a new version at the store.I first realized this in the 1960s while wandering around looking for a place that checked all the …
I started this blog in 2018 mainly to talk about my woodcarving. It gradually expanded to talk about my pets, my adventures as an applied anthropologist, and anything else that took my fancy. Anything else was the mildly fictionalized adventures in Coastal Living I had in Maine. And then my experiences at boat shows, and …
Got an elevator talk? You know a little spiel you spill after the ice is broken, and you're asked, "Well, what do you do?" If it's straightforward, that's good - banker, lawyer, nurse, auto mechanic, or writer. It's more difficult when what you do requires paragraphs rather than sentences. So folks who do more esoteric …
I am still getting over the double whammy of an asthma attack and pneumonia. In practical terms, I am much more sedentary than my habit. When You see your activity levels plummet and then only slowly tick upwards, it's disturbing. I'm not the sort who sits and watches the tube endlessly. I carve, work in …
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