The promo is by Free Range Oyster, the resident ambulatory mollusc. However, this musing is on the subject of work, backbreaking work and joy. It was the multiple complications of a relatively simple but messy internal problem. So, what now? .

Two people are late but the bus is fine. The Sublime Mysteries of Belugitude. A drawing of a floating beluga feeding eggs to a beluga in a wheelchair. A photo of Anna sitting on the couch and looking very solemnly at the Christmas tree.

Seems each year I go on an adventure somewhere in the world. This Summer, that adventure was in Canada. My mother, daughter, and I went straight North to the Banff area in Alberta. From there we went West to Whistler, then on to Vancouver Island in British Columbia, then dropped into Washington and shot straight home. The next day we were on the road again, this time on our way to Whistler. During the Vancouver Olympics, Whistler was the site of many of the events.

Novelist, storyteller, artificer of strange worlds. Cringeworthy One Star Reviews of Classic Books. Author Hugh Howey on Writing, Empathy and Creative Freedom.

Tech, content, Africa enthusiast. For publishers in a racist world, neutrality is not a virtue. Perhaps racism is so widespread and so common that this seems normal. There is, of cou.

Study Project East Wall Cabinets. Has a new post up on the subject of broken windows policing. You know, the way Rudy Giuliani is credited with cleaning up New York.

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A boomer remembers bygone days. Susan Reid muses of the carefree days when we were kids. A baby boomer when she had only just begun.