Fifteen years ago, I owned the pants which are pictured top-left.  They were rad, commando-comfy, and lasted about 60 washings...

          The first presidential debate is over.  Every sheep in the herd has now had plenty of time to listen to their favorite pundit, ...

          My half-sister, Kim, is a seasoned health care professional who has lived her entire life in the same red state.  When she and I...

          As I type, my first thought is Oh what a wonderful exercise in futility .  Immediately followed by the idea that I'm more in...

          This should have been titled click and drag until your fingers bleed.  The bottom panel is massive.  It could take over an hour...

17 April:  I mail six income tax returns (federal and state for: me, her, and our LLC). 29 June:  My refund arrives. 11 July:  Her refun...

“A Spanish mother has taken revenge on the man who raped her 13-year-old daughter at knifepoint by dousing him in petrol and setting him a...

          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.  ...