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At the farmer’s market on Sunday, I noticed a sign at the Happy Boy booth: “We farm on Amah Mutsun land.” The Amah Mutsun are one of the indigenous people from this part of California. They aren’t a federally recognized … Continue reading
Category Archives: Lifestyle
“Hey, I’m going to Palm Springs. Want to go?” “Um, yeah!” My friend Mel and her husband are P. S. aficionados. Mel knows when flights and accommodations are cheapest (between Thanksgiving and Christmas), and they have stayed at least a … Continue reading
(Picture from here.) I spoke last week on the disheartening aspects of the issues we’re facing today. It occurred to me that I couldn’t talk about one side of the problem without talking about the other side. While I … Continue reading
I want a care robot for my old age. I don’t mean those fake animals and devices that coo at you to take your meds, like The New York Times wrote about recently. Those sound patronizing and highly annoying. What … Continue reading
There are some very big subjects that our lives centre around right now in Australia. I don’t want to talk about them. They’re full of difficulty and emotion and… it’s exhausting even thinking about them, to be honest. I can’t … Continue reading
The acceptable garb of my former workplace was one step below “business casual”. No suits on either men or women; the Director and Assistant Director (both male) came closest to the suit thing by wearing shirts and slacks without ties. … Continue reading
I wrote a haiku one evening, as the husband and I sat inside our empty house, weary, sore, feeding scraps to the dogs and wishing we were anywhere else. Now the house is sold, 21 years of accumulated matter of … Continue reading
You’ve all been here. You’ve ALL been here. You have a particular piece of software that you LIKE, that does the job that you need it to do, that functions perfectly, that you are used to, that you can actually … Continue reading
Seven years ago, my house had 20 floor-to-ceiling bookcases, and about the same number of half-sized bookcases — about 5000 books, excluding the comics. The house was essentially full of books and comic books. Today I have ten tall bookcases, … Continue reading
Right now I want to write about politics and bushfires. Both are very bad in Australia. The thing is, I live in the national capital and there is smoke in the air. That makes politics and bushfires my everyday. A … Continue reading