rantings & ramblings
It’s Paper Clip Day! Whether you’re organizing documents, unclogging a bottle of glue, hitting the reset button on one of your devices, or cleaning your ears (but why are you doing that?!), take a moment to appreciate the paperclip. And yes, even send Clippy some love.
It’s International Hamburger Day! I love a good burger; if you scroll my blog, you’ll see many burgers from the Bob’s Burgers cookbook, but my favorite burger was one I made for our D&D group, which I named the Critical Hit. How do you like your burgers?
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 the weekend, and a long one at that, so let’s sit down with some refreshing beverages and some light snacks. Maybe spin some records, and chat about this last week.
Continue reading “Weekend Wrap-Up”
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.”
