rantings & ramblings
The days grow longer and warmer but inside we’ve got the blackout shades drawn and the AC on so draw up a chair and I’ll pour us a refreshing beverage. Let’s chat about the week that was.
Continue reading “Takin it Slow on a Sunday Afternoon”
Today is Memorial Day in the United States, and as is my custom I share a poem for that day. I last shared this poem in 2016; it’s time to do so again, I think.
Continue reading “Grass: A Poem for Memorial Day”
It’s World Dracula Day! First published on this date in 1897, Bram Stoker’s classic novel (and the seemingly countless adaptations it’s inspired) continues to fascinate and terrify those who choose to sink their teeth into this classic vampire tale. Do you have a favorite version?
Today on Towel Day let us remember the words of Douglas Adams: “If you want to survive out here, you’ve got to know where your towel is . . . A towel… is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have … any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.”
It’s National Notebook Day! When it comes to notebooks folks seem to fall into three camps: those that don’t use notebooks; those that have notebooks & fill them voraciously; and those that have many notebooks & refuse to write in them for fear of messing them up or ruining them. Which one are you?
Terry Pratchett would’ve been 76 today if not for the Embuggerance. The wit and wisdom and fury and anger he shared via the Discworld affected something foundational in us and made the world a little bit better.
Continue reading “To Be Human”
Running In My Head 