I enjoyed this book about a child of the 1970's who loves to read SF and chronicles in her diary all she does and says for ab...

          Last week's (Aug 2012) Rodger Hodgson concert caused me to recall the circumstances surrounding my purchase of this rather o...

          Filed under:  Amazing, Highly Recommended , as well as Where has this been hiding all my life ?           I had occasion to use...

          How can one count the ways?           To describe the woman whom I love, I could draw, paint, or take a photo of her...but I wa...

          In my teens and twenties I was impressed by many musicians but only a small number became indelibly stamped in my brain-pan...affe...

          When my grandmother (whom I called Nana and have written about before) lived in New Hampshire, I found this almost two inch gla...

          The word bad in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, refers to the Dutch word for bath because the city was once renowned for its bathhouse...

          I already wrote a snippet about my Crater Lake visit in 2009, which is when I bought this grey agate sphere.  I found in on th...

          There is a theory that when views are tallied by most favorited or most viewed (as they are on many shopping, video, art, porn, ...

          My retirement present to myself in 2001 was a month in Australia.  I found this 1¾" (47mm) sphere in a store called The Cry...

          This glass marble reminds me of my stepfather.           My first memory of him:  He was dating my mother.  I was seven.  We w...

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          I lived in Mons, Belgium 1993-95.  Summer weather permitting, I occasionally drove west about ninety miles to one of the beaches...

          Last April we stayed in a yurt (because we'd never done it before).  Two mid-week nights were available the following week, ...

          One of my spheres was a gift from my fiancée in 2010.  In 2008 we noticed a 2" (50mm) ivory billiard ball in an antique stor...

          On my first vacation to Negril, Jamaica, I commissioned this sphere to be made from local ironwood.  I located an artist who und...

          I've been asked why there aren't more snapperhead pics of cats, myself, loved ones, Portland locales, or locals even (wh...

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                How do you know if you’re a Republican or a Democrat?           That’s an interesting question for a fifteen year-old.  ...

          The trope of an unlikely athlete in a marathon...although she began the race with the crowd, as the sun's rays got longer she ...

          Another first.  Played with a ParView GPS on the cart.  Not only does it maintain score(s); indicate yardage to: pin, front/back o...

Although it's still quite cool and Spring-like here in the Northwest, I hear Summer is spanking  98% of the rest of the US of A just li...

          This is not a review of the film Zeitgeist —there are more than enough reviews (debunkings, addendums, etc)—instead, this is a ...

veach  |  GTC  |  bluesboyjr  |  beatsoul           I began the first slice of this in March (and thought it was lost forever).  In this ...

          Today is the Mesopotamian God Nergal's birthday.           A deity of certain sun-phases, as well as the desert (a negative...

         Remember, back in 96, when you heard Matchbox 20 for the first time?  How about the first time you watched Modest Mouse perform ...

          I never saw this 1985 film until now.  People mentioned it, but never recommended it.  In the mid-90s, after watching The Craft, ...

          No longer do I have:  a contract, minutes, overages, or any surcharges.  I regained control by replacing all of the above with a ...