By the time you read this it will be "I read this article yesterday" because I am scheduling this to post Thursday. So today I read an article on the 16-year-old "First Daughter." Apparently, she took a selfie of herself wearing a branded shirt. Said brand got a copy of the picture and proceeded to exploit… Continue reading Children should be allowed to be Kids/Teens/Explorers
Category: Memories
Life Memories: 2015 Resolutions
I've been trying for weeks to talk about issues in the media. I've started and deleted at least half a dozen posts dealing with race, sexism/rape, police... and yet there is a key element in all of these issues that I am going to make part of my 2015 resolutions: NOTALL________ Not all men... Not… Continue reading Life Memories: 2015 Resolutions
Life Memories: Traveling Terrors
On Dec 13th at 9:45pm I got on a plane to London. As of 15 minutes before boarding (a 30 minute delayed boarding) the seat next to me was still showing as empty. My first trip across the Atlantic ocean and to a city I've studied and read about all my life... Eight hours couldn't… Continue reading Life Memories: Traveling Terrors
Life Memories: Bathtub Decisions
This story is hard to tell because there is a lot of lead-in story. I'm going to skip all of it and jump straight to "I have to replace my bathtub." So Friday (Black Friday) I went to Home Depot and found a good steel-with-porcelain-cover tub for $120. I called my parents and they drove… Continue reading Life Memories: Bathtub Decisions
Dreams of Tea
This weekend my mother and I drove to North Carolina to visit a tea farm. I took the afternoon off work Friday so we could drive up. We stayed in a Holiday Inn and Saturday morning we headed to Chapel Hill NC - Camillia forest (http://www.camforest.com) to look at tea plants. I've been telling mom… Continue reading Dreams of Tea
History of Kitties
This isn't going to be a long history of everything, but a vignette of my history of cats. I think anyone who knows me today has heard me talk about my pair of black babies. I adore Kawaii and Genkii. They weren't my first cats. In fact they are number three and four. My first… Continue reading History of Kitties