First steps
In the background I’ve been busy taking some first steps. Painting! I submitted two paintings, small and possibly quite amateurish, to a fundraiser. Yes, I feel like a fraud. How dare I submit a painting? […]
Edward Albee is still alive.
There are others. Writers that I read and loved, and who I assumed were dead. I remember being shocked when I heard Saul Bellow died. What? He had been alive all that time? There is […]
Carry on
This afternoon I stood watching while a new student got off the campus shuttle. He was blind and was attempting to navigate the side walk. The thing is that the bus does not always stop […]
If it seems like a chore, don’t do it.
A few months ago I started crocheting at the suggestion of a friend. We’ll crochet at lunch, she said, and then we’ll sell the results. Having learned to crochet many, many years ago, it came […]
Plants and weeds
Two sayings come to mind: Grow where you are planted. A weed is a plant out of place. Most of the time I identify with the weed while my good friend grew where she was […]
Old, irrelevant, and outdated
Read this at http://inoveryourhead.net: Well, I have news for you. No matter who you are, I know what your future is. Your future is to grow older, slowly become irrelevant and have outdated views, eventually die and become food for the living. That is […]
Minimalism
This past month has been all about de-cluttering. After more than 5 years of paying for self-storage, the reality of what I had done to myself by keeping an irrational and inappropriate amount of stuff […]
Hello World!
Of course. Hello world is always the first thing that comes to mind in my computer life. But this blog is about taking the next step in preparing for the life that is just ahead. […]